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2024 Annual Report

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Our mission is to improve the health and health care of the people and communities of western and central New York.

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Spotlight on the Memory Café Collective: Finding Joy Through Connection and Respite
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Spotlight on the Memory Café Collective: Finding Joy Through Connection and RespiteOlder Adults

Spotlight on the Memory Café Collective: Finding Joy Through Connection and Respite

2024 Annual Report The first memory cafés appeared in the late 1990s and were the brainchild of Bere Miesen, a Dutch geriatric psychologist who recognized…
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Creating Safe, Trauma-Informed Spaces to Care for Older Adults
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Creating Safe, Trauma-Informed Spaces to Care for Older AdultsOlder Adults

Creating Safe, Trauma-Informed Spaces to Care for Older Adults

2024 Annual Report Nearly all of us will experience trauma in our lifetimes, and the ripple effect from those experiences can last for years or…
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Based in Buffalo, NY with a second office in Syracuse, NY, the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York is an independent private foundation that serves 16 counties, including Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming counties in western New York, as well as Cayuga, Cortland, Herkimer, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego and Tompkins counties in central New York.

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