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Apr 20 2023
Get the Facts on Healthy Aging
Nearly 56 million Americans are 65 and older, with projections estimating that the population of older adults will grow to 94.7 million in 2060. On average, a 65-year old can expect to live another 17 years. For most older adults, good health ensures independence, security, and productivity as they age. Unfortunately, millions struggle every day …
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May 26 2020
Make Food Safety a Priority
In this difficult time of physical distancing and curtailed outdoor activities, it’s heartening to see the outpouring of generosity to older adults from friends and neighbors, often in the form of donated meals. It’s also wonderful to see those pitching in by doing the shopping, cooking, or food delivery to older adults in need. Whether …
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May 26 2020
Zonta Volunteers Make A Difference
Zonta Foothills Club of Boulder County, a member of Zonta International, has been supporting women and girls in Boulder County since its charter in 1982. An all volunteer organization, the Foothills Club is making a difference in women’s lives locally and around the world. They work to help ensure women’s safety, health, education and empowerment …
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May 19 2020
Why The Poppy Is A Symbol Of Memorial Day
In the war-torn battlefields of Europe, the common red field poppy (Papaver rhoeas) was one of the first plants to reappear. Its seeds scattered in the wind and sat dormant in the ground, only germinating when the ground was disturbed—as it was by the very brutal fighting of World War 1. John McCrae, a Canadian …
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May 19 2020
Step Inside the Museum of Boulder!
Take a virtual tour of our Boulder Experience Gallery with our Director of Education, Emily Zinn! This tour guides you through displays, inter-actives and multimedia experiences that cover the history of Boulder from the earliest days of Native American inhabitants, through key times of cultural, scientific and economic change, continuing to the present day. Become …
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May 12 2020
TRU Cares for our Community During COVID Crisis
TRU Community Care (TRU), a non-profit health care organization that provides a continuum of care for individuals living with advanced illness and loss, is using tele-health technology (TRU TeleCare) to safely and effectively deliver uninterrupted care to the community’s most vulnerable populations. TRU has deployed tele-health tablets to palliative care and hospice patients to proactively …
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May 05 2020
When We’re Run Down
Two natural gas company service personnel, a senior training supervisor and a young trainee,were out checking meters in a suburban neighborhood. They parked their truck at the end of an alley and worked their way to the other end. At the last house, a woman looking out her kitchen window watched the two men as …
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May 05 2020
Join me Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 10:00 am
I will discuss the Crisis Standards of Care, which are the guidelines for how the medical community allocates scarce resources such as ventilators and intensive care unit beds in the extreme case when patient needs exceed the resources available. Learn about the COVID-19 Crisis Standards of Care enacted by Governor Polis early April and the …
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May 05 2020
Online and Telephone Services for Caregivers and Older Adults
As I write this column, it has been 2 weeks since we began social distancing in earnest to keep us as safe and well as possible in the time of COVID-19. While we can expect May to bring warm weather and a greener landscape, it is unclear how soon we can anticipate our return to …
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May 05 2020
Community Art Project
Still accepting artwork for our community art project! COMMUNITY IS NOT CANCELLED Mail to: 195 S. Main St. Ste. 8 Longmont, CO 80501 Longmont Hearing & Tinnitus Center has a special request. We are asking children to draw, color or paint a piece of artwork to be given to a senior patient who may be …
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May 05 2020
Good News For All
The Denver Public Library – www.denverlibrary.org, College Hill Library in Westminster, Jefferson County Library and apparently every library in between is allowing access to Ancestry Library Edition (that’s the Worldwide edition) for FREE from HOME. Just log on to www.denverlibrary.org, click on the Research Tab, Databases A-Z, then down the list to Ancestry Library Edition …
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May 05 2020
Social Security Honors Our Military Heroes
On Memorial Day, our nation honors military service members who have given their lives for our country. Families, friends, and communities pause to remember the many great sacrifices of our military and ensure their legacy lives on in the freedoms we all enjoy. We recognize these heroes who, in President Lincoln’s words, “gave the last …
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