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Free community talk at 12 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 on “Maintaining Mental Health As We Age” at the Larkspur Community Center, 1600 SE Reed Market Rd, Bend, OR 97702. Learn more. 

Mental health is just as important as physical health — especially as we age.

We’ll explore how anxiety, depression, and mood disorders can uniquely affect older adults, along with effective approaches to prevention, treatment, and support.

Bring a brown bag lunch; dessert and coffee are provided. 

About our speaker: Marianne Straumfjord is a recently retired psychiatrist, living in Sisters, Oregon and a board member of NAMI Central Oregon. 

This story is based on submitted information and has not been verified by our news team. 

This article appears in the Source September 18, 2025.

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Free Expert Community Presentation 

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
September 16, 2025

<h1>Free Expert Community Presentation </h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />September 16, 2025</p> <p class="has-drop-cap">Free community talk at 12 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 on <strong>“Maintaining Mental Health As We Age”</strong> at the Larkspur Community Center, 1600 SE Reed Market Rd, Bend, OR 97702. <a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/frbx11/fvqbyhvc/fjlbxaq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Learn more. </a></p> <p>Mental health is just as important as physical health — especially as we age.</p> <p>We'll explore how anxiety, depression, and mood disorders can uniquely affect older adults, along with effective approaches to prevention, treatment, and support.</p> <p>Bring a brown bag lunch; dessert and coffee are provided.&nbsp;</p> <p><em>About our speaker:&nbsp;</em>Marianne Straumfjord is a recently retired psychiatrist, living in Sisters, Oregon and a board member of NAMI Central Oregon.&nbsp;</p> <p><em>This story is based on submitted information and has not been verified by our news team. </em></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/business/businessnews/free-expert-community-presentation/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cropped-fbookImage.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=63420&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/business/businessnews/free-expert-community-presentation/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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