In September of 2018, the Childhood Cancer Awareness month, Geoff Fraser of Melbourne FL and his team at Conway Lakes were using art to help heal. During the event, inspirational young patients along with Florida Hospital South and Conway Lakes Health & Rehab Center were picking up brushes, painting on canvas­es, or putting on costumes for the camera to bring hope and healing front and center. Florida Health South and Conway Lakes Health & Rehab Center repeatedly make a difference in the Orlando community and this one-day collaboration art event is just one example of the difference that they’re making in [...]

Outdoor Senior Wellness Playground The health benefits of getting outdoors and adding physical play lifts senior minds and bodies to a higher sense of well-being. “Humans are designed by biology to play throughout their entire life cycle,” states Stuart Brown, MD, founder of the National Institute for Play and author of the book “Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul.” “For older age groups, play has a role in fertilizing the brain and in producing increased brain-derived neurotrophic factor (a protein that encourages growth and new connections between nerve cells), particularly when there is social [...]