I’m a 75-year-old senior citizen. I’ve experienced a life filled with the joys and sorrows typical of those of us...
Blog Articles
Regaining Confidence After a Cardiac Event
Life has a wonderful way of rapidly changing from appearing to be running smoothly to suddenly feeling out of control....
What Happens if My Caregiver Passes Before Me?
There are moments in my daily life when I get a feeling of anxiety and potential loss, wondering how I could possibly...
Access to Mental Health Treatment
by Elisa Friedlander, LMFT Similar to disparities in medical care, disparities in mental health access and treatment...
Navigating the Ins and Outs of Insurance Coverage
by Erin Bradshaw, Patient Advocate Foundation Selecting a health insurance plan is an important decision and requires...
Five Types of Ableist Comments and How to Respond to Them
By Janet Jay Ableism is a type of prejudice against people with disabilities, often with the attitude that “normal”...
Organization Spotlight: Sick Cells
Sick Cells is a sickle cell disease (SCD)-focused advocacy organization co-founded by Ashley Valentine and her late...
Join our celebration of the latest INvisible Project!
Just in time for National Minority Health Month in April, the INvisible Project: Disparities edition is now available...
Life after vaccination
By: Ellen Lenox Smith As my husband and I get closer to receiving our second of our two-dose COVID-19 vaccination, we...
Local woman named U.S. Pain’s 2020 Ambassador of the Year
DENVER, CO (March 19, 2021)--The largest nonprofit for people with pain, U.S. Pain Foundation is proud to announce...
Let’s reconsider how we evaluate nontraditional therapies
By: Malcolm Herman The National Institutes of Health is comprised of 27 institutes, all of which deal with specific...
Service dog separations
By: Ellen Lenox Smith We were recently enjoying watching the new show “Transplant” when in one scene, my heart sank...