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What’s So Great about the Mediterranean Diet and why is Everyone Talking about it?
TV and newspapers bombarded us recently with news about a major study that found that eating a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil and nuts lowers the rate of major cardiovascular events, at least among people at increased risk for...
Learn Why Advance Medical Directives are Important – to You AND Your Family
The Sixth Annual National Healthcare Decisions Day, designed to “inspire, educate and empower the public and providers about the importance of advance care planning,” will be held throughout the United States on April 16. Through many years of experience,...
Eat Right for a Healthy Life
Jenny Starr, R.D., Clinical Nutrition Manager for Masonicare Health Center, knows how important it is to follow a healthy diet and make practical changes in our diets that will stick. “We strive to offer and encourage healthy choices for our...
Depression and Anxiety in the Elderly
Currently, there are 35 million people over the age of 65 in the United States, and by 2050, this population will double to more than 70 million. Unfortunately, in addition to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, behavioral health disorders such as...
Sound Advice to Help Prevent Winter Falls
A fall can happen to anyone at any time and in any place, but the cold weather, with its ice and snow, makes your chances of falling even greater than at any other time of the year. Besides just being...
The Affordable Care Act: How Does It Affect You?
By: Richard C. Memmott, Sr. Director of Masonicare Community Services and Chairman, Connecticut Commission on Aging On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, the health care law that was designed to increase access to health...
Getting a Flu Shot – What you need to know
During her career as a nurse, Caroline Hebert, RN, Manager of the Outpatient Specialty Clinics and Employee Health at Masonicare Health Center in Wallingford, has seen dozens of patients with influenza and witnessed firsthand the serious complications that can often...
Common Causes of Shoulder Pain and How to Ease Your Symptoms
Christopher Lathrop, OTD, MS, OTR/L is the director of rehabilitation at Masonicare Health Center in Wallingford. With a clinical specialty in upper extremity rehabilitation, Dr. Lathrop knows only too well how debilitating an achy, painful shoulder can be and how...
Aphasia – An uncommon term – but a common problem for many
According to the National Health Observances calendar, June is National Aphasia Awareness Month. Although Aphasia is a word that’s probably not familiar to many of us, the condition is more common than you might think. You may even know someone...
Masonicare’s Pathways Program
Helping Seniors and Their Families Deal with the Challenges of Aging Through Masonicare’s Pathways Program, many Connecticut seniors have received comprehensive evaluations and subsequent recommendations that have enabled them to take the steps needed to have the most independent,...
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