Senior Wellness

Parents are the guiding light in our lives, offering unconditional love and support. On July 23, we have the opportunity to celebrate their remarkable presence on Parents Day. While appreciating [...]

Priscilla, 83, has not always felt safe walking down her front steps to greet her neighbors. “Now, she feels much safer going down the front stairs to take a walk,” says her daughter Latanya. [...]

Hospice care began as a community-based service, largely provided by volunteers, aiming to transform end-of-life care to holistically meet the needs, preferences, and goals of dying people and [...]

The Canadian province of Nova Scotia will soon be partnering with the CAPABLE National Center to implement the Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) program, a [...]

Americans across the country celebrate Veterans Day on November 11.  This is a special day to salute the people who have bravely served our country in the military. Veterans have made profound [...]

Throughout the month of November, Colorado Visiting Nurse Association will be joining organizations across the nation in celebrating National Hospice and Palliative Care Month. For more than 40 [...]

Colorado VNA recently received a grant totaling $2,300,000 from the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (Department) to support and expand its CAPABLE program and provide care [...]

At the behest of House Bill 15-1033, which passed in 2015, a “multidisciplinary private and public sector stakeholders’’ group to develop a comprehensive strategic action plan on aging through [...]

It’s time to think differently about aging. As Colorado VNA’s CEO, I think about aging and the perception of aging a lot given that over 75% of patients we serve are 65 and older. In fact, [...]

Over the last two decades, we’ve come to understand that oral health means much more than healthy teeth. As the American Dental Association states “Your mouth is a window into the health of your [...]