BCBSMA News Service

Researchers have found that helping others is correlated with positive effects on both physical and emotional well-being and may even help people live longer.

During the hardest times, help can sometimes come from a simple phone call.

Every day, a Massachusetts mom named Lauri takes her 26-year-old daughter named Ashley, who has intellectual disabilities and several complex medical needs, to doctor’s visits, keeps her on a medication schedule, gets her Dunkin Donuts coffee at 2 p.m. and attends to her needs, a well-oiled machine of love and caretaking. But that machine was in danger of breaking down in December.

Telemonitoring puts patients in the driver’s seat and lets them get back to living their lives.

A Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts member says a team of nurse case managers at the health plan gave him hope after he was blindsided by a difficult diagnosis.