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SENIOR LIVING Thorne Crest Now Offers...
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A CELEBRATION OF BIRTHDAYS
Residents in the health care wing at Thorne Crest Senior Living Community are asked for birthday meal requests that are served in a special meal just for them and a family member. Assisted living residents also have birthday parties once a month, where they are served cake and occasionally have music or trivia events. PROVIDED
Thorne Crest hosts special meal for residents during their birthday month By Sarah Kocher
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As residents celebrate another year, Thorne Crest celebrates with them. The senior care facility hosts parties and meals for residents throughout the building in an effort to make the occasions special, Activities Director Marilyn Claassen said. “All birthdays are important,” Claassen said. Thorne Crest asks residents in the facility’s health care wing for birthday meal requests and works to fill those requests in a special meal served just for them and a family member they invite, she said. She hopes Thorne Crest can start offering this to assisted living residents next month as well.
The building also hosts birthday parties once a month. All residents are invited, Claassen said, but those with birthdays sit at a special table. They usually dress up. “We don’t tell them to,” Claassen said. “They come that way.” Residents are served cake, and the parties occasionally have entertainment like music or trivia events. “We try to make the parties really special for them,” she said. Claassen said residents also get carnations and a card on their birthday. Claassen noted the festivities’ importance specifically for those who cannot leave Thorne Crest for health reasons. “You gotta do what you can in the building to make life special,” she said.
The senior care facility offers special events for residents’ birthdays to make the occasions special.
Tips from new study for driving safely into your golden years Because more senior drivers on the road than in years past, the importance of assessing driver fitness has increased. In the latest issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers look at this topic, along with tools that clinicians can use to determine if patients are able to safely operate a vehicle. “Driving retirement is a normal part of aging, and should be carefully considered and discussed openly,” said Dr. Ericka Tung, a Mayo Clinic internist
and geriatrician and lead study author. “Primary care providers are uniquely poised to counsel patients about driving safety because they understand their patients’ health conditions, capacities, challenges and goals.” While there isn’t a single one-size-fits-all test that can be performed, providers can look at several areas of functioning to assess driving fitness. These areas include: • Cognition, including changes in memory, attention or language.
• Vision, including visual fields and depth perception. • Mobility and physical function, including functional range of motion, and coordination of the neck, upper body and lower body. • Health conditions, including underlying conditions that could affect the ability to safely operate a vehicle • Medications. A medication list should be reviewed to verify that there is no drug interaction that could impair driving alertness.
Equally important in a patient’s workup is the input of family members or care partners. The authors note that recorded observations of a loved one’s driving performance, his or her ability in completing basic tasks of life, or a history of falls can be useful in determining when it’s time to stop driving. Depending on clinical findings, driving rehabilitation or alternative transportation may be warranted. Since driving provides a sense of independence and control for
many seniors, it is important that any decision be communicated clearly and with compassion. When determining if it’s time to stop driving, it is critical that a conversation with a patient’s primary care provider occurs, so that patient can retire from driving at the appropriate time — rather than waiting for an accident. “Open dialogue is encouraged between patients, families and primary care teams to ensure safety on the road,” Tung said.
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Senior Spotlight: Phyllis Lokken Age: 95 Native of: Albert Lea Place of residency: Thorne Crest Senior Living Community Family: Four children, nine grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren, scattered all over — Florida, California, Hawaii, Africa, South Dakota, Minneapolis, Albert Lea and Alden Education: Country school, Albert Lea High School and one year of Austin teachers training Former occupation: Teaching first through eighth grades in country school. Also worked in the Brookside School cafeteria and Thorne Crest activities department for 10 years. What is your favorite childhood memory? Playing outside in the winter and summer. We used to enjoy swinging on a bag swing that my father made out of a gunny sack filled with straw and tied to a tree with a rope. I also enjoyed overnight stays with my cousins. What is your favorite memory from adulthood? Camping trips with our family and friends. Visiting our families and their children in California, etc.
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Phyllis Lokken to celebrate graduations and weddings. What would you say is your greatest accomplishment? Bringing up my family and being a homemaker. Also, being actively involved in church and church activities. Is there a piece of advice you wish someone had given you or you would have listened to when you were younger? Talk to God and read his word daily. Seek his advice and remember he loves you.
What is the greatest lesson life has taught you? Time goes by too fast. Take time to see and do things with family and friends while you are able.
What do you enjoy most about where you are living now? The Christian atmosphere. The love and fellowship of staff and residents and knowing that I am not alone. For nearly 12 years this has been my home, and I feel safe and secure here. I enjoy the many activities available here at Thorne Crest.
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Senior Spotlight: Dale Drescher Age: 66 Native of: Born in Albert Lea Place of residence: Good Samaritan Society of Albert Lea Family: one brother , one son, one daughter and four granddaughters Education: graduate of Albert Lea High School, two years at Austin Community College and four years at South Dakota State University Former occupation: Agronomist What is your favorite childhood
memory? Getting a blue ribbon at the fair with my Hereford steer What is your favorite memory from adulthood? Birth of my children Is there a piece of advice you wish someone had given you or you would have listened to when you were younger? Don’t wish time away What is the greatest lesson life has taught you? To be kind to others and to be happy What so you enjoy most about where you live? The people here. It is fun to get to know them and to make others happy!
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Examples of good sources of prebiotics include bananas, onions, garlic, Jerusalem artichokes, apple skins, beans and chicory root. The prebiotic fiber moves through the small intestine undigested and fermented until it reaches the large intestine. Once there, beneficial bacteria break it down and use it as food. Thusly, the prebiotics can then multiply readily and improve the balance of good and bad bacteria in the gut.
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What would you say is your greatest accomplishment? My enjoyment of teaching many wonderful children. What is the greatest lesson life has taught you? Respect of each other and my students, and show people you care about them, and faith in god. What do you enjoy most about where you are living now? The good care and friendly staff and other residents. I enjoy visiting with all of them. I have a wonderful family, my son is really good to me, and he is very attentive to me and visits me often. I also enjoy the visits I get from my family, friends and previous students.
Those poised to begin a health regimen that includes probiotics would be wise to also educate themselves about the closely named, yet vastly different, “prebiotics” that are also beneficial to health. Prebiotics are to probiotics what fertilizer is to a vegetable garden. Prebiotics are essentially a special type of soluble fiber that is used by the beneficial bacteria as fuel, advises the prebiotic supplement company Prebiotin.
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Senior Spotlight: Doris Willert Krause Age: 89 Native of: Steele County Place of residency: New Richland Care Center Family: Husband, Richard Krause; son, James Krause; and daughter, Julene Krause. Doris was the oldest of three in her family. She had one brother, Duane Willert; and sister Arlene Willert Braaten. Both are deceased. Education: Completed a bachelor’s degree in elementary education, and a master’s degree in developmental reading. She attended Mankato State University in Mankato. Former occupation: She taught for 40 years — 13 years in the country school setting in Steele County, 20 years as an elementary teacher in Medford and a substitute teacher for sevenyears, also in Medford.
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Look for symptoms of Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, is often mistaken as something that only affects aging men and women. While the Alzheimer’s Association notes that age is the biggest risk factor for Alzheimer’s, the group also warns that even men and women nowhere close to retirement age can develop the disease. In fact, the Alzheimer’s Association
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