Certain healthy behaviors--staying mentally active, remaining socially engaged with family and friends, engaging in regular physical activity and eating a heart-health diet-- benefit your body and your brain.

Learn more about the importance of maintaining social and community connections are you get older... and how you can strengthen your social connections using 12 strategies such as volunteering, learning, exercising, connecting via tech, and stepping outside your comfort zone.

Gardening boosts mood, lowers dementia risk, and offers opportunities for physical activity and, in the case of community gardens, socialization.

Connecting with other people is essential to our health and well-being.

Social Isolation is more than feeling lonely. How connected are you?

Learn more about a holistic self-care plan that encompasses the mind, body and spirit. 

Whether we are young or old, we need social intereaction to thrive. Research is now showing the especially harmful health consequences on older adults associated with chronic isolation and loneliness.

Strong social connections are important for our physical and mental well-being. Making connections with neighbors can reduce social isolation and be transformative for everyone!

Everyone needs social connections to survive and thrive. But as people age, they often find themselves spending more time alone. 

You can take the Connect2Affect Self-Assessment for social isolation for yourself or someone you know. 

Finding ways to stay socially engaged is important to everyone. There are many tools that can help older adults, people with disabilities, veterans, caregivers, and families find community resources and supports.

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has developed resources to reduce social isolation and loneliness for older adults and caregivers. 

Good overall health may help to maintain good brain health. These tips may help you stay active and healthy, physically and mentally. 

Research has shown that people who feel "young at heart" have more gray matter in their brains.