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Accessible Garden Takes Root

Workshop at the Buehler Enabling Garden

The Buehler Enabling Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden enhances how older adults and people with disabilities experience the outdoors.   Fact checked by Jim Lacy The space opened in 2000 with support from the Buehler Family Foundation. It builds on an original garden dating to the 1970s that served rehabilitation patients and people with disabilities. […]

With Physical Restrictions, Sex May Change But It Doesn’t Have to End

Heather Howard with a couple demonstrating position.

Don’t worry — physical restrictions like a hip replacement, colostomy bag, or arthritis don’t need to spell the end of your sex life. In fact, sexual health experts say, these restrictions, whether temporary or permanent, are an invitation to bring play into your life. “Remember the first time you experienced intimacy with your partner or […]