September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month, a time for advocates and supporters of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) to raise awareness both nationally and locally about efforts to fight blood cancers including Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and Myeloma.

Healthy aging month takes place in the month of September every year. During this month, we aim to help raise awareness about living a healthy lifestyle so more individuals can look forward to growing older. During the past year, all of us, and particularly our elder population have faced unexpected challenges. It is important now, more than ever, that we address and take a proactive approach to aging.

World Alzheimer’s Month falls in September each year. During the month, advocates aim to create more awareness about the disease. Because Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia are common and affect over 50 million people around the world, it is important to raise awareness of how to recognize symptoms, risk factors involved, and the current treatment available for individuals.

Every month in September, we observe prostate cancer awareness month. Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer occurring in men aside from skin cancer. In many cases, individuals do not present any symptoms until cancer has progressed. It is important that we promote awareness about prostate cancer and prostate cancer screenings to help individuals with early detection and overall prevention.

Our Mindful Mandala Tracing is a therapeutic activity is designed for adults to enhance focus, promote relaxation, and improve fine motor skills. By creating intricate mandala designs, anyone can practice mindfulness, reduce stress, and express their creativity.

With busy schedules and typical duties we have in life as a family member, parent, sibling, grandparent, or friend, it can sometimes be difficult to make time for self-care. Engage your own self-care routine in a fun way! Print out this bingo sheet to play on your own.

It is important that we understand vaccination and immunization facts to help us keep ourselves and our loved ones healthy and safe from preventable disease.

Stress can take a toll on the whole body physically, mentally, and emotionally. It is important to learn coping skills and ways you can manage stress on your own. For many people, it can be difficult to know what to do when you are in the middle of a stressful moment or feeling anxious.

For this month's Therapy Tune-Up, we are focusing on strengthening the rotator cuff muscles! It is easy to do and easy to maintain, for just 5 minutes a day to start.

Check out one of our Therapy Tune-Up exercises this month to help you facilitate mindfulness, focus, and attention!

Word searches can help improve vocabulary and spelling through practicing an enjoyable activity.

This Weekly Workout Worksheet can help adults keep track of their exercise routine for each day. The worksheet provides a space to get organized and also take notes for a 5-day workout week.

Paint pouring can be a fun and simple way of getting into a new practice of creating art. Painting utilizes fine motor skills, visual motor skills, cognitive skills, boosts creativity, and can even help reduce stress.

Gastroparesis is an important health issue to raise awareness about, particularly during the month of August. Promoting a better understanding of this issue and how it can affect an individual’s quality of life may enable more people to find treatment options and learn strategies to prevent symptoms from worsening.

One commonality all humans across the world share is providing care for babies and newborns. Breastfeeding is a natural process that our bodies go through to provide nourishment for new life, much like many other species on our planet.

During a prolonged stay at home or a change from going to work or school and then working or learning at home, routines can change sometimes be affected in a negative way. Habits are the main aspect of a routine, and developing good ones instead of negative can really make an impact on your daily life.

Over 8 million people live with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis. During the month of August, we draw attention to this disorder during Psoriasis Awareness Month.

National Health Centers Week was created to call attention to the important work that Health Centers do all around the country. They provide services for people at all hours of the day and care for over 30 million patients at 11,000 sites nationwide. Health centers reduce costs by 24 billion dollars annually through specialty care costs.

National Immunization Awareness Month takes place this August to bring awareness to the importance of vaccinations for people of all ages. By continuing to learn accurate and up-to-date information, you give yourself the knowledge to make the best decisions about how to get vaccines for yourself and your families.

Making a new dish offers so many options. Whether you follow a new recipe, bake a treat, or experiment with a new snack idea, making something new in the kitchen works on fine motor skills, visual motor skills, and language skills.