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Openness about Mental Health — and Using this Time to Nurture It

April 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / Community Issues, Health & Wellness, National Issues / No Comments

Talking about mental health issues is difficult for children and parents, but should not dissuade people from having these conversations, especially given the current challenges facing us all. “Having frequent open conversations with your child that convey trust and respect and really listening to what they say they want and need is the best approach hands down—no matter what the problem is.”

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Governor and Mayor Heighten COVID-19 Restrictions. All Denver non-essential to stay at home.

March 1, 2020 / Carol Roberts / Business, Community Issues, Denver News, Health & Wellness, National Issues, News Updates, Public Safety, State Issues / No Comments
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Mayor Hancock announces citywide stay at home order and closure of non-essential businesses from March 24 to April 10. That follows Gov. Polis’ statewide order for all businesses to cut back their on-site staff to at least 50%. Social distancing orders remain in effect.

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Schools Are Closed for 3 Weeks. Now COVID-19 really has our attention.

March 12, 2020 / Carol Roberts / Community Issues, Health & Wellness, Parenting, Schools/Education, Science / No Comments

The everyday life of DPS families changed overnight with the announcement of a 3-week school closing. Understanding the importance and medical necessity of the decision may help parents cope.

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Water, Unleaded Please

March 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / Community Issues, Health & Wellness, Public Safety / No Comments

East Colfax homeowner Jasmine DeCelles recalls when her husband was washing something in the sink back in 2017 and noticed “a yucky film over the top of water sitting in a clean bowl.” Not even thinking about lead at the time, she requested a free testing kit from Denver Water, hoping to learn what was causing the water’s iridescent appearance.

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New Hospital Coming—Watch Zoo Vets at Work

February 1, 2020 / Karyn Cole / Denver News, Development, Health & Wellness, Science / No Comments

With the completion of the Denver Zoo’s new Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Animal Hospital later this year, the veterinary team will be able to provide state of the art care to the more than 3,000 animals that call the zoo home.

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Helping Build Medical Capacity in Tanzania “Without Creating Dependency or Harming the Dignity of the People”

January 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / Health & Wellness, Travel / No Comments

Based on her experience as the International Ministry Program Lead for SCL Health, Michas suggests that Western practitioners have much to learn from Tanzanians’ more holistic conception of health, which addresses an individual’s physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing.

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Roots to Ranches: Undomesticating Your Dinner

January 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / Entertainment, Food, Health & Wellness, People / No Comments

Executive Chef/Owner of Cattivella Elise Wiggins was only six years old the first time she went hunting with her father in the woods of Louisiana where she grew up. “If you do this, you have to understand we don’t take life to take life. If we take life, you will eat it. Are you ok with that?”

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Senior Planet: Where Boomers Learn, Work, Create and Thrive

January 1, 2020 / Tracy Wolfer Osborne / Business, Community Organization, Health & Wellness, Technology / No Comments

Mile-high seniors are flocking to a program called Senior Planet that offers new opportunities through technology.

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“Women have been understudied for years. It’s actually worse than you think.”

December 1, 2019 / Martina Will, PhD / Health & Wellness, National Issues, Science / No Comments

Though some differences emerge when viewed by race and ethnicity, heart disease remains within the top two causes of death for Hispanic, Black, Native American, and Asian women in the U.S. And surprisingly, until relatively recently, most studies of cardiovascular health centered on men.

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Creative Aging: Flipping the Cultural Narrative About Aging

December 1, 2019 / Tracy Wolfer Osborne / Community Organization, Health & Wellness / No Comments

The Older Adult Programs, which are funded by The NextFifty Initiative and available to anyone fifty plus, offer everything from tech and medicare support to creative aging classes.

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