Third Annual Celebration of Healthy Aging

The Shoreline Eldercare Alliance (SEA) will host its "Third Annual Celebration of Healthy Aging" at the Owenego Inn and Beach Club in Branford, Connecticut, May 9, 2012 from 3-7 P.M.  It is free and open to the public.

http://www.shorelineeldercarealliance.org/celebration-of-healthy-aging-third-annual

his year's celebration will feature a workshop focused on humor at 3:30 p.m.featuring the acclaimed humorist and impressionist, Mark Verselli, a Connecticut native and a graduate of the University of Hartford. Mark has entertained with numerous headline entertainers and has performed at Foxwoods and Stamford Center for the Arts.

The Community VNA will lead a second workshop at 4:30 p.m. entitled, "Welcome to the New World of Health Care - Where You are on the Medical Team."

A "Wellness Tent" where attendees can interact with professionals representing ways to healthy aging will be available and one can experience proper ways to move, led by "CORE of Guilford." The Community VNA will measure orthostatic blood pressures and administer fall risk questionnaires. Many other wellness services that enhance senior years will be represented.

Senior entertainment including the River Boat Ramblers, the Branford Senior Center Tappers and the Tower One Chorus will be represented. Tastes of the shoreline by vendors from various shoreline restaurants and venues including Friends and Co., P&M Deli, La Cuisine, Parthenon Diner, Colabro Cheese, Perk on Church and more will be represented.

The keynote speaker for this event will be Dr. Mary Tinetti, Chief of Geriatrics at Yale New Haven Hospital. Dr. Tinetti is the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine. She was named a Mac Arthur Fellow and received a "genius" grant from the foundation in recognition of her extraordinary creativity, energy and commitment to research. Dr. Tinetti has devoted much of her research to fall prevention for the elderly and has been responsible for finding multifaceted risk reduction strategies. Dr. Tinetti helps translate her findings into clinical and public health practice. She says, "Falling doesn't have to be an inevitable part of aging because it is preventable." Dr. Tinetti will speak at 5:45 p.m.