Center for Healthy Aging offers free memory screenings

Hartford HealthCare Center for Healthy Aging, a not for profit member of Hartford HealthCare Senior Services, is a resource and assessment center designed to enhance access to services and information related to attaining optimal quality of life for seniors and their caregivers. Dementia professionals from several of the 11 locations provide free confidential memory screenings.

These assessments average 10 minutes and consist of questions and tasks to assess memory. They do not diagnose any illness, but can indicate whether someone should follow up with a full medical exam. Screenings are held at various locations and in the home.

Mulberry Gardens of Southington, 58 Mulberry St., Southington. Contact Jennifer Doty, 860.276.1020.

Hartford Hospital Family Health Center, 35 Talcottville Road, Vernon. Contact Jennifer McCaughey, 860.696.4623.

Hartford HealthCare Center for Healthy Aging at Charlotte Hungerford, 540 Litchfield St., Torrington. Contact Jennifer Labrie, 860.496.6240.

Hartford HealthCare Family Health Center, 2 Northwestern Drive, Bloomfield. Contact Amina Weiland, 860.286.3236.

For more information about Hartford HealthCare Center for Healthy Aging, visit http://hhccenterforhealthyaging.org or call 877.4AGING1/ 877.424.4641.

Hartford HealthCare Center for Healthy Aging is a not for profit member of Hartford HealthCare Senior Services. Each of the 11 resource and assessment centers are designed to enhance access to services and information related to attaining optimal quality of life for seniors and their caregivers. For more information about Hartford HealthCare Center for Healthy Aging, visit http://hhccenterforhealthyaging.org or call 1.877.424.4641.