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Students at UW-Manitowoc recently joined residents of Laurel Grove Assisted Living Center, Manitowoc, to discuss the history of the Manitowoc River. The students interviewed residents as part of a collaborative project with the Wisconsin Maritime Museum and the Friends of the Manitowoc River Watershed by collecting stories of the river and its history. The Laurel Grove residents were later guests of the Wisconsin Maritime Museum as a thanks for the role they played in the Friends of the Manitowoc River Watershed history project. Here, Clara Hagenow, left, and Anita Rusch, take turns looking through the museum’s periscope. Submitted photos
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Practice Prevention of Fall Injuries Health By Amy Wergin Manitowoc County Health Department Falling is not something that we wish for in our futures, but the risk of falling increases as we age. Each year in the US, one in every three adults age 65 and older falls (CDC). The risk is greater for women than men. Two-thirds of people who do fall will fall again within six months. In 2011 the rate of fall death in Manitowoc County was 36.9 per 100,000 compared to 18 per 100,000 in the state.
We will all age. Long-term physical problems can affect gait and balance. If a person has more than one condition the fall risk increases. Some of the health conditions are arthritis, chronic pain, foot disorders, muscle weakness, dizziness, sensory disorders, dehydration, or low vitamin D levels.
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Exercise is one way to counter the effects of some health problems. Check with your health care provider before beginning a new exercise program. Exercise programs that improve balance and muscle strength may decrease your risk of falls. Classes are offered at many locations in our area.
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At least one-third of all falls involve environmental hazards in the home. Take a look around your home. The most common hazard for falls is tripping over objects on the floor. Are the stairways clear of clutter? Do you have a lamp within reach of your bed for middle of the night needs? Are the main walkways clear of tripping hazards? Make sure that your shoes fit correctly. As you age the size of our feet can change. Choosing shoes with thinner soles helps to be aware of the surface where you are walking. To live a long life free of falls just remember to follow the simple suggestions. Assess your risk for falls annually. Keep yourself as physically fit as possible. Review your medications. Evaluate your environment for tripping hazards. For further information contact the health department at (920) 683-4155 or go to: www.cdc.gov/Features/OlderAmericans
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Prevention of falls begins when a person is much younger. Reducing risk factors for falls when we are younger makes the chance of injury from falls less. Most falls happen at home, although the fall can occur anywhere. Your health professional should check your gait, balance, strength and coordination at your checkups to determine if you are at risk for falling.
The risk factors for falls can be divided into three categories - physical risk factors related to your body, habit and lifestyle risk factors and environmental risk factors. Some of the risks can be changed, some cannot.
Lifestyle and behavioral risk factors for falls may include different prescription and over-the-counter medicines. Drugs take longer to break down and leave your body when you are older. Medications may interact with each other to cause potentially harmful reactions. Get all of your medications from one pharmacy. It is important that your health care provider knows what overthe-counter supplements and medicines that you use. Talk to your pharmacist about possible side effects of your medications, some may make it more likely that you experience dizziness or confusion.
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By Judy Rank | For 50 Plus! The Manitowoc and Two Rivers Senior Centers will have trained volunteers to assist seniors and disabled individuals with filling out income tax forms and Homestead Credit forms. For Homestead Credit, assistance is available only for those who are able to file the H-EZ form. The Manitowoc Senior Center is scheduling appointments for individuals who need help with tax preparatio, on Thursdays and Fridays from 8:30 to 11:30 am. The number to schedule an appointment is (920) 686-3060. Individuals who do not need to file income taxes, but would like to file for Homestead Credit, should schedule this appointment for Tuesday afternoons from 1 to 4 pm. The Two Rivers Senior Center will be offering appointments on Wednesday from 8:30 to noon for both tax and Homestead Credit assistance. The number to schedule an appointment in Two
The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program will assist low-income people with Income tax preparation regardless of age. Assistance will be available at LTC Manitowoc Job Center on Saturdays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m; at the Cleveland LTC Campus Room L105 on Mondays from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m; and at the Sheboygan Salvation Army on Tuesdays from 5 to 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. To schedule an appointment at LTC of the Job Center, please call (920) 693-1398 or (920) 565-1543 for Sheboygan appointments. VITA will only assist individuals whose annual income is under $51,000, all income was earned in Wisconsin, and you are required to be a U.S. resident. If available, bring a copy of your 2012 Federal and State tax return, all W2s and 1099s, Social Security cards for you, your spouse and dependents, 2013 property tax bill or rent certificate signed by landlord; 2013 property tax bill or rent certificate, and a voided check for direct deposit.
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The Aging & Disability Resource Center will be setting up appointments at many of the low income housing complexes in the county throughout the next two months. The following information is necessary to complete the tax credit: 2013 Social Security statement; Information on SSI for both Federal and State (bank statement will verify); 1099s for pension, annuities, interest, and dividends; W-2s for wages (if under 65 it is necessary to file an income tax return, those over 65 wages must be less than $500); property tax bill for 2013 (if you own the home); completed 2013 Rent Certificate filled out by landlord if renting; Homestead copy from previous year if you have it; proof of any other income reportable for tax purposes; and any other tax statements you have received. You also need to bring along information on health insurance premiums - supplements, advantage plans, Part D premiums, and Long Term Care policy amount paid in 2013.
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The ADRC will not assist any nondisabled person under the age of 60, anyone who has a dependent, anyone with wages that require a tax return, and anyone with rental income with ex-
State HIRSP members should have received the second letter in late December stating their insurance will continue through March 31, 2014. Members need to be mindful that if HIRSP is used dur-
ACA Navigators Partners for Community Development, Inc. has trained Navigators in Manitowoc to assist individuals with enrollment into the Health Exchange, also known as the Affordable Care Act. Individuals are encouraged to call ahead for an appointment by calling (920) 2074097 or emailing yer@partners4cde. com. The Navigators have office hours at Lakeshore Cap, 702 State St. in Manitowoc on Monday and Friday. On Tuesday, they have office hours at the Health Department, 1028 S. Ninth St, Manitowoc; Wednesday at Holy Family Memorial, 2300 Western Ave; and on Thursday at the Community Clinic, 600 York St. Someone from the agency is in Kewaunee County on most Thursdays. Please call to check on availability for Kewaunee County.
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and doesn’t have the same coverage as someone who is admitted. To assist residents in learning more about their chronic conditions and helping to stay healthy so that trips to the ER can be avoided, the ADRC has established ongoing prevention programs that people can attend.
BadgerCare members have also received a letter in late December stating they will be covered until March 31. They also received a Tax Filer form that they were to fill out and return by Jan. 17, 2014. Individuals who feel their income qualifies them for BadgerCare may enroll in the program on the state’s website: www.access.wi.gov or by calling 1-888-256-4563. If eligible, it will be effective April 1. Those who are eligible for BadgerCare and currently do not have any health care coverage may purchase insurance through the Health Marketplace and then apply for BadgerCare to replace it beginning April 1.
A six-week “Living Well with a Chronic Condition” will be starting Feb. 11 at Rivers Bend from 1:30 to 4 p.m. An informational session will be held on Feb. 4 at Rivers Bend from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. for prospective participants to learn about the class before deciding on whether to enroll. On March 12, a “Living Well with Diabetes” six-week program will be held at Fox Valley Tech in Chilton from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. The “Living Well” series is designed to help one learn self-management skills and to enjoy life despite a chronic condition. Please contact the ADRC at 683-4180 or 1-877-416-7083 to register for one of these programs.
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Northeast Elementary School principal Connie Stevenson works in her office in Stamford, Conn. Stevenson, who has worked for Stamford Public Schools for more than a half-century, said continuing to work past the age of retirement is an obvious choice. Dru Nadler/AP packages in the past decade. Many boomers expect to work the rest of their lives because they have little cash put away for their old age and they worry Social Security won’t cover their bills. Some hope to move to jobs that are less physically demanding. The share of U.S. workers who are 55 and older is expected to continue growing, according to the “The Oxford Handbook of Retirement 2013.” The group comprised 12.4 percent of the workforce in 1998. The share jumped to 18.1 percent in 2008 and is expected to be almost 25 percent by 2018. The book is edited by Mo Wang, co-di-
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By JONI SHAVLIK/50 Plus correspondent The Power of Music runs very strong in Tracey Schultz. She is the organist at Lakeshore United Methodist Church and a music teacher at Jackson Elementary and at Riverview School; and she gives piano lessons in her home. Her husband of 32 years, William, is so supportive of her career that when they sold their cottage, they purchased a Kawai piano with a CD burner. Their children are also musically inclined. Besides their full-time jobs, Jenn teaches Zumba classes and Ryan is a DJ at Saucy’s Sports Bar in Manitowoc. The Arts and Education Partnership lists many benefits of music on the developing mind, such as enhanced motor skills, superior working memory, improvement of recall and retention of verbal information, and even improvement of SAT scores. Schultz, 56, sees the connection between music and children’s listening and logic skills.
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“It’s not just a subject, there is science in music, math, geography, history, and with the emotional side it’s a whole education in itself,” she said.
Early Start At age 5 she began taking piano lessons from Sister Alberta Schneider at Holy Family Conservatory. She also took organ lessons from Mel Kitzerow at First Lutheran Church, where she then played regularly for the church. By seventh grade she had been playing in church and at age 15 she played for her first wedding. Attending Silver Lake College was an incredible experience when she sang with the Wisconsin Youth Chorale as it traveled to Europe, visiting Amsterdam, Scotland, England, and France. Schultz saw the power of musical memory in a previous member of St Paul’s United Methodist Church. A pastor’s daughter, this member attended church all her life and pretty much had the hymnal memorized. She was diagnosed with dementia in her early 50s. Schultz found that if she played only one verse of “Jesus Loves the Little Children” the church member would stand and sing the entire song, word for word with so much joy in her heart, and yet have difficulty remembering common words and family members.
Memories “Music is memory” Schultz said. “It affects us all. Take the Alzheimer’s patient who wouldn’t speak or interact. He was in a nursing home for 18 years and his daughter brought in an iPod with music on it for him and he was then able to hold a conversation! Music enables communication and expression.” (What Schultz is refTracey Schultz plays the Kawai digital piano at Lakeshore United Methodist Church in Manitowoc, where she has been organist for many years. Matthew Apgar/50 Plus
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about the type of music needed for prayer, offertory, or the upbeat postlude as you leave the church. “I want people to leave feeling uplifted,” Schultz said.
The story of the “Rhinestone Cowboy,” Glen Campbell, on his final tour is amazing. At home in Malibu, Calif. he has to be reminded that he has Alzheimer’s disease. He performs his songs in his last tour with his three youngest children, who help him through the shows. He makes mistakes, may play the same song twice before his daughter Ashley helps him move on to the next song, but he doesn’t forget the songs, the lyrics, or the multitude of complicated and amazing guitar licks.
Every church has their traditional old time hymns, but Schultz also likes to change up arrangements and add some excitement. When a particularly musically inclined pastor, Larry McCann, was at church, he opened the door for Schultz to take those old hymns and create fresh arrangements. Being able to burn a CD at home of one half of a duet, and then playing the CD during a service and playing the other half along with it, is technology that keeps Schultz’s job exciting.
The music is rooted in his soul. Alzheimer’s affects the present memories more than past memories, and like the church member who didn’t forget the hymns, Campbell remembers the music. (See Glen Campbell’s Final Tour – CBS Sunday Morning on You Tube.)
“I have to thank all of the people who made the purchase of the Kawai piano at church possible. It’s digital, you don’t have to tune it! It makes so many different sounds and rhythms and special effects!” She has burned around 100 CDs so far, each with three to nine songs.
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Music is an activity that you can do your entire life, whether it’s playing, dancing, or just listening, and the benefits for the older population are still being discovered.
Schultz loves the technology on the Kawai as well as in her classes at Jackson. They play piano on electric keyboards purchased through the generosity of the PTO, one for each student, along with headphones because within the same music class some students have private lessons and are more advanced, and some are beginners.
“Age related delays in neural timing can be avoided with musical training. Older musicians have a distinct neural timing advantage, they can encode sound stimuli as quickly and accurately as the younger non musicians” according to a study from Northwestern University. “Kraus’ Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory found that musical training may also offset losses in memory and difficulties hearing speech in noise.”
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One might think that playing for a church service is as easy as playing the music on the page, but Schultz is answering her calling. She receives scripture from Pastor Tom Dunham during the week and chooses the music to enhance the worship experience. “I’m not just playing, this is how I worship,” she said. She thinks carefully
“I love teaching,” Schultz said. “I love to share the knowledge of what I’ve learned. I love to see how proud the children are of a performance they’ve done! But it’s not the same as performing. Performing and teaching are two different things. I try to teach the children how to perform and express and to use emotion, some people can hear it, some people can perform that way and really express themselves through music, (but) not all can.” Schultz says she loves to perform. “I’m a quiet person, so it’s how I express myself,” she said. “I don’t feel 56. I feel more like I’m in my 40s.” It was a difficult year in 2005 when she broke her ankle and was in a wheelchair. She learned to play left footed! Last year she began a journey to good health with a 10,000 steps per day goal. She walks 30 minutes daily (with an ankle replacement) and has lost 32 pounds since last March by watching what she eats and using a Fitbit, (an activity tracking wristband that links up to a computer). But it’s music that will forever be her passion. “Music moves people” Schultz said. “It makes people cry, smile, swoon and dance. It doesn’t matter what age you are, you can always express yourself through music. As I age I am more comfortable with what I play, I play more confidently. “Music touches my soul, and when It touches me, I know it’s going to touch other people.”
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Retirement Unlikely continued from page 5 rector of the Human Resource Research Center at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business Administration. In an interview, Wang said it’s a misconception that lower-wage workers are slackers in preparing for retirement. “People don’t have adequate earnings,” Wang told The Associated Press. “It’s not because they don’t want to save. It’s because they just can’t.” Many people don’t save enough for their own retirement because they lack financial literacy skills, Wang said. Also, he said it can be incorrect to assume that people with lower incomes have more financial concerns than people with higher incomes. Psychologically, the important thing is the ratio of life earnings to wealth — how much money a person earns in a life span, compared to how much of it she gets to keep. “Whether they have the 401(k) is not the decisive factor in influencing how well they live,” Wang said. “Whether they have their own house is a big factor.” For homeowners, about 50 percent of wealth is typically tied up in the house and other investments, while a pension accounts for about 25 percent and Social Security accounts for about 25 percent, Wang said. For people who don’t own their homes, particularly those
who’ve worked low-income jobs, “Social Security is super important,” he said. “Social Security is one way to pull them out of poverty.” People can receive full retirement benefits from Social Security between 65 and 67, depending on when they were born, and Medicare coverage at 65. Farmers, loggers and other agriculture workers often have their wealth tied up in their homes or work property. Business consultant Mike Salisbury of American Falls, Idaho, has spent more than three decades helping farmers plan their financial futures. He said the biggest concern for most is succession — whether any children want the farm once a farmer retires. “Now, statistics pretty well show that about two-thirds of farm families do not have successors interested in coming back into the business,” Salisbury said. Without someone to take over the family business, farmers look for an exit strategy, he said. “There are some really complex tax ramifications for when a farmer decides to stop farming.” He said farmers approaching retirement want to know how to convert the equity in their land, fixtures, buildings and machinery into cash without having to pay
the upper tax rates or having to pay taxes in a lump sum the day assets are sold. “We like to think of our farmers as just barely getting by and dirt poor,” Salisbury said. “For the vast majority of farmers today, the ones that survived the economic crash of the ‘80s, they’re probably in pretty good shape.” People who’ve worked low-wage jobs for decades, such as 46-year-old Catherine Bacon of Durant, Miss., say they have a tough time envisioning an affordable retirement, even if that goal is decades away. Bacon worked 21 years in a catfish processing plant, cutting filets and hoisting bags of fish to make sure they weighed 15 pounds, never earning more than $16,000 a year. To supplement her income for nine of those years, she also worked weekends as a convenience store cashier. The seven-days-a-week routine meant she rarely saw her two oldest daughters when they were young. The kind of retirement many Americans envision — travel, hobbies, leisure time without financial stress — is just a wistful fantasy for her. Bacon is a single mother with two grown children and two younger children still living at home. Sitting at the kitchen counter of the double-wide trailer she rents
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Retirement Unlikely continued from page 9 from one of her sisters, she sighed. “I haven’t given up on living,” Bacon said. “It’s just, certain things I want to do, I know I won’t do them. Traditional retirement — I won’t have that.” Some blue-collar workers have employers who chip in toward retirement. In Atlanta, 41-year-old Jason Baumgartner works as a master carpenter, helping build luxury homes. He said his employer contributes to a Roth IRA for him, and he puts in some money each week, as well. He and his wife have a son who’s about to turn 2, and they’ve consulted a financial planner. He said he wants to save enough money to start his own business and work for himself rather than for somebody else.
when finished, be a fishing net used by fishermen to trawl for shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s a trade Boudreaux, 52, has practiced for decades in the small net shop he owns — and something he may end up doing longer than he had anticipated. “To plan for retirement in today’s economy is very, very hard because people who started planning for retirement years ago put money on the side in IRAs and stuff like that, and the way the economy is and the interest rate is, they don’t get anything anymore,” Boudreaux said.
“I think the hours and, you know, the labor intensive stuff won’t be as bad,” Baumgartner said. “But, still, I plan on working until I’m 60, 75. Well, 70.”
Boudreaux said he opened his net shop in 1980 and has also been a part of a family boat-making business since 1981. He said he invested thousands into IRAs that today are worth very little. It’s disappointing, he said, but the good news is that he loves what he does and probably wouldn’t retire even if he had the means.
In the southern Louisiana fishing village of Lafitte, Robert Boudreaux’s cut and callused hands worked quickly, spinning, looping and threading twine that would,
“Most of the people that’s in the community — that’s fishermen, that’s small business owners — they don’t retire,” he said. “They work until they pass on.”
Top Technologies guide for mature drivers
The shiny paint. The new car smell. Many aspects about buying or leasing a new vehicle can excite your senses. Once you are inside your new vehicle, you are probably asking yourself a lot of questions. Where will I put my sunglasses? Is the trunk big enough for my groceries? What does this button do? Chances are your new vehicle will feature some new technologies, many of which can make driving safer, easier and more enjoyable. To be safe on the road, it’s important to learn how these technologies work in your current vehicle or a new one. The Top Technologies for Mature Drivers guide is a new interactive tool that outlines the top 10 new vehicle
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