Health on Wheels will provide a variety of health services, including nutrition education, smoking cessation support, physical activity promotion, and education on how to manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure.
Through food pantry, health and wellness screenings and more to come, UB students and faculty aim to help residents break the norm of dying around age 65.
Community-based practices that address individual, family and community-level trauma must also address multiple risk factors of trauma in the environment and other social stressors.