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Deciding what to do in retirement
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JIM MILLER
Syndicated columnist, NBC Today contributor & creator of SavvySenior.org
Dear Lost, This is a great question! Many people, when asked what they want to do when they retire, will say they want a mix of travel, play and meaningful work. Specifics, however, tend to be few and far between. But planning how to fill Deciding what to do in retirement your time in retirement is just as Dear Savvy Senior, important as the financial planning I just turned 62 and am financially prepared for retirement, aspect. Here are some resources but I’m less certain about how to spend my time after that can help. leaving work. Can you recommend some resources or tools Online tools that can help me with this? — Feeling Lost A good starting point to figuring
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out what you want to do in retirement is at LifeReimagined.aarp.org. This is an AARP website (you don’t have to be a member to use it) that can help you rediscover what truly matters to you and focus on what you really want to do. It offers a variety of free online exercises and programs that will hopefully spark some ideas and give you inspiration. Encore.org is another good resource that helps people who are seeking work that matters in the second half of life. Click on “Resources” on the menu bar and download their free Encore Guide, and consider purchasing a copy of their “Encore Career Handbook” (available at Amazon.com or BN.com for $10.50) by Marci Alboher, which is excellent.
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Every year, injuries caused by falls cause significant health problems, and in some instances death — especially in older people. Although not the only cause, medications can increase the risk of falls. Knowing your medications, what they do, potential side effects and the right questions to ask your pharmacist or health care provider can reduce your risk for falls and increase your quality of life. In addition to knowing your medications, eating healthy, exercise, vitamins and walking assistance may all reduce the risk for a fall. The American Geriatric Society has created the Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. This is an extensive document listing medications that should be avoided or adjusted in elderly patients as a result of increased risk for side effects. Some of the groups of medications that should be used with caution in elderly include medications for mood, anxiety, sleep and pain, to generalize a few. The specific medication and dose should be closely monitored for age and organ function appropriateness. When getting or changing medications, be sure to ask about potential side effects
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Also, check out the free E-book titled “The Age for Change,” which can help answer the question: “What now?” You can download this at ComingOfAge. org. And, if you’ve never taken a personality test before, this, too, can be a good tool to help you figure out what type of activities or work you’d like to do. A good option for this is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment, which you can take online at MBTIcomplete.com for $50. Personalized guidance If you want personalized help, you can also get one-on-one guidance from a retirement or life planning coach. Some resources that can help you here include LifePlanningForYou.com, which has a free exercise called EVOKE to help identify a path that might suit you best in later life, and provides a directory to registered life planners to help guide you. Also see: RetirementOptions. com, which will connect you with a retirement coach who will give you an assessment to help reveal your attitudes and opinions about work, family life, relationships, leisure time and more. And the LifePlanningNetwork.org, which is a group of professionals and organizations that help people navigate the second half of life. You can also find life and retirement coaching at the International Coach Federation at CoachFederation.org. Coaching sessions typically range
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The session will be in Manitowoc from 3 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 16, at the Manitowoc County Office Complex, Room 300, 4319 Expo Drive, Manitowoc. The Kewaunee session will be from 3 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 16, at Casco Dining Site, 201 Wiesner Ave., Casco. These sessions are a free public service, but REGISTRATION IS REQUESTED. Register by calling 920-68341880 or toll-free at 1-877-416-7083.
Lakeshore Memory Café offers sessions Have you heard about the Lakeshore Memory Café? Memory Cafés welcome those experiencing early stage dementia, mild memory loss or cognitive impairment, and family and friends of those affected. It’s an opportunity for lively discussions, information gathering, refreshments, camaraderie, and lots of creative fun. A dementia specialist professional will be on hand to answer questions and an enormous wealth of experience among participants will be shared. Upcoming sessions are from 10 to 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 3, at the Manitowoc Public Library; and 10 to 11:30 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 20, at Lester Public Library in Two Rivers. August’s theme is “Hawaiian Luau.” Wear a lei and learn about the state, sip on Hawaiian Punch and sample pineapple and coconut.
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Senior Farmers’ Market Vouchers will again be distributed by the Aging & Disability Resource Center of the Lakeshore. The Farmers’ Market Vouchers are valued at $25 and are redeemable for Wisconsin-grown fresh produce, fruit and herbs from participating vendors for Manitowoc County and Kewaunee County seniors. To be eligible, a person must be 60 years of age and older, income for a single person cannot exceed $1,832 per month, and a couple’s income cannot exceed $2,470 per month. Vouchers are available at the ADRC
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of the Lakeshore office, 4319 Expo Lakeshore Memory Cafés are a proDrive, Manitowoc. Bring proof of ingram of the Dementia Friendly Comcome and a photo ID. munity Committee – a partnership of Vouchers will be distributed on a first many local organizations that have come, first served basis. joined together to make Manitowoc Call 877-416-7083 or 920-683-4180 County more dementia friendly. Call Kim Jacquart Franzen at 877-416-7083 for more details. for more details.
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The ADRC of the Lakeshore will offer community presentations titled “Medicare: Parts A-D.” These sessions provide the opportunity to learn about Medicare costs/coverage for: hospital, medical, prescriptions, skilled care, homecare and hospice. They are open to anyone of any age who is new to Medicare or already on Medicare and just interested in more information.
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Alzheimer Family Caregiver Support Program The Alzheimer’s Family Caregiver Support Program is a program created by the Wisconsin Legislature in 1985 in response to the stress and service needs of families caring at home for someone with irreversible dementia. To be eligible, a person must have a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or a related disor-
der, and be financially eligible. Funds for the AFCSP program are made available in each county to assist individuals to purchase services and goods related to the care of someone with Alzheimer’s disease. Up to $4,000 per person may be available. Allowable services are those that are necessary to maintain a person with Alzheimer’s disease in the community. Typical services have included in-home help, respite care, adult day care and transportation. Goods provided have included nutritional supplements, security systems, specialized clothing, incontinent products, home-delivered meals, home adaptation and specialized equipment. The asset limits are as follow: a couple may have a joint income of $40,000 or less, but if a couple’s income is more than $48,000, the costs related to Alzheimer’s can be subtracted from the gross income. If the net income is less than $40,000, the couple would be eligible. Assets are not counted for this program. Only the income produced by the assets would count toward the $48,000 limit. To find out more about this program, contact the ADRC of the Lakeshore at 920-683-4180 or toll free at 1-877-4167083.
The Walk to End Alzheimer’s Disease – Lakeshore Mark your calendars for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s Disease – Lakeshore. The walk will be Saturday, Sept. 24, and will start at the Manitowoc-Two Rivers YMCA. Registration is at 9 a.m., and the walk begins at 10 a.m. You can start a team, recruit members, raise awareness and funds. Register today at tinyurl.com/walkwl or call Melissa Konop at the ADRC of the Lakeshore for more details: 920-6834180 or toll free, 1-877-416-7083.
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Two Rivers native Jerry Nelson, 91, has a photo of a memorial Sherman tank framed in his house on Thursday, June 30 in Two Rivers. The World War II army veteran fought in the Battle of the Bulge in a Sherman tank with the Seventh armored Division in 1944. (Yi-Chin Lee/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
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Two Rivers World War II vet remembers his comrades
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TWO RIVERS - When people tell World War II Army veteran Gerald Nelson “thank you for your service,” he does not just say “you’re welcome.” Nelson, 91, was drafted by the Army after he turned 18, not long after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. While in Europe, he watched his comrades die for their country. He made many personal sacrifices to be
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able to come home to Two Rivers alive. So when Jerry responds to the kindhearted person who acknowledges his time in the service, he says, “It was a small down payment of my youth for a lifetime of peace and prosperity.” Nelson’s “small down payment” was not very small, but he was able to come back to his home, see his family, fall in love with his wife Dawn, and live a quiet life along the lakeshore. The second World War brought a
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In a strange turn of events, Jerry, who was in the 7th Armored Division, and Jerome of the 99th Infantry Division, would end up fighting in the same operation, the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. This specific battle was the most deadly for the United States, as it suffered the highest casualty count of any operation during the war. In a twist of fate, both brothers came home. WWII CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
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During his 21 months in the Army, he spent most of it thinking of home. “That was the thing everyone thought about the most, your hometown,” Nelson said. “Just a little hick town, where there isn’t anything going on, that’s what we thought about, that was what was important.” As a gunner in a Sherman tank, Nelson saw and experienced a lot of things during the war. Depending on the day, he’ll talk about what happened, but days like Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Veteran’s Day are especially hard for him. “I always went to the memorial events they held for soldiers and veterans,” Nelson said. He liked going to those events because he was a part of what the people are remembering. “I like to stand away from the crowds, because when it comes to those kinds of things, I like to be alone, it’s so personal. I usually weep,” he said. Instead of thinking of his life here
at home in Two Rivers, he takes these days (along with many others) to remember his time, his actions, his comrades and his life during the war. He does not go to these events anymore because of his current health conditions. Nelson has surrounded himself with books and memorabilia about the U.S. Army and WWII. He is constantly reading, writing and learning about the life of a soldier, but one thing sticks true — the inspiration brought from his hero, Winston Churchill. With tears in his eyes, Nelson repeated a number of Churchill’s most memorable quotes, including one in a speech called, “War Situation.” “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” Churchill said this in the House of Commons on June 18, 1940, addressing the war with Nazi Germany and how the people were to thank the British airmen for their sacrifices.
Two Rivers native Jerry Nelson, 91, recalls his World War II experiences as a U.S. Army Corporal at his house on Thursday, June 30 in Two Rivers. Nelson was drafted after he graduated from high school in 1942 and worked in a tank during his service. (Yi-Chin Lee/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
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Retired music teachers Jim and Susie Miller perform an unrehearsed sing-along at their house Tuesday, July 12. The Millers are devoted music and performance members in Manitowoc. (Yi-Chin Lee/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
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MANITOWOC - In their usual twopart harmony, Jim and Susie Miller adamantly agree: they couldn’t imagine
their lives without music. Music had been directing the rhythms of the Millers’ lives well before the two longtime area music educators and Indiana natives met while in school at Indiana University in the
School of Music, both having had early musical influences. But once they met in their freshman year of college, it didn’t take long, according to Susie Miller, before things turned up a beat or two.
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“The perfect college romance,” Jim Miller added. After college, the Millers taught in Indiana for a few years, after which Jim went back to school to start work on his master’s degree. Before completing his degree, Jim and Susie moved to Illinois for two years, where Jim taught and Susie was “mothering” their family, which would eventually include four sons. Jim went back to school and finished his master’s degree, and then the Millers moved to Manitowoc. “We’ve been here since 1969,” Jim Miller noted. Jim started teaching that year at Lincoln High School, where he stayed for 32 years until his retirement. Susie got their youngest son off to kindergarten before becoming the choral director at the University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc, a position she held for 26 years. “It doesn’t seem that long,” Susie Miller noted. In the midst of all that music, Jim and Susie raised their four boys. And as might be imagined, there is a musical bent to all of their children’s stories. Their oldest son, Adam, went to Berklee College of Music in Boston and is a jazz musician in Egypt. Second son, Nick, started as a voice major at Lawrence University in Appleton, but eventually became an environmental scientist (the environment being another passion of the Millers) and is the science director of the Nature Con-
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servancy in Madison. Their third son, Kirk, has a music composition degree from UW-Madison, and now lives in New York and writes children’s musicals. He also does IT work. And their youngest son, Noah, got a vocal degree from UW-Madison and sang opera for several years, but is currently working in IT in New York as well. While Jim and Susie admit it’s “rare” when their whole family gets together, they have very fond memories of their 50th anniversary celebration almost three years ago held near Bayfield, Wisconsin, when almost the entire clan got together. “We had a great time,” Jim Miller said. Throughout the years they were bringing up their children, the Millers were involved in musical activities well beyond their careers. “We wanted to do activities — since both of us were involved in music — that were musically oriented and that we could all be involved with,” Jim Miller said. That desire led to more than just singing around the table. “So, years ago — and it lasted for about 15 years — we started a boys’ choir sponsored by the YMCA here in town. It evolved into a mixed children’s group. At first, Noah (their youngest) was so little he was our mascot,” Jim and Susie Miller said together. But prior to the Millers’ involvement
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Retired music teachers Jim and Susie Miller pose for a photo with their dogs Forrest, left, and Eva at their garden Tuesday, July 12. The Millers enjoy gardening as a hobby. (Yi-Chin Lee/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
in the boys’ choir, a yearlong family adventure ensued that the family still talks about today. With a family inheritance and a yearlong leave of absence, the entire family took off to England with Jim and Susie spending a year studying choir. “We took a nanny with us so that we could leave the cottage,” Jim said. At the time, their children’s ages ranged from 4 to 14. “Even though it’s been since 1980 … a long time since then … it always comes into conversation. It was an interlude in our family life that will never be forgotten,” Susie Miller said. Both a musical and cultural interlude. “We traveled … we went all over England and Scotland,” Jim Miller said. “This was at the time we were thinking about starting a boys’ choir, and we just felt like we didn’t know enough about the young male voice, and the bastion of male singing is England and cathedral.” In addition to seeing, hearing and learning in England, the Millers also took short courses at the Royal School of Church Music. “That was really fun,” Susie Miller said. The Millers made fast friends during their year in England. “We got involved in the community and it was full of wonderful people and we got completely ingrained in that
community, so we have many, many friends still who come to visit us, and we visit them,” Jim Miller said. After their year in England, they took their knowledge and started the boys’ choir for the Y. Eventually, they established a children’s choir at the Capitol Civic Centre. And though they’ve officially been retired — Jim since 2002 and Susie since 2005 — their “retirement years” include teaching private piano and voice music lessons to around 40 students between the two of them. They have three pianos in their very comfortable home. “We have another studio upstairs … so our house is a business … people come and go,” Jim Miller said For the last two years, Jim and Susie have co-directed the Capitol Civic Centre Community Chorale, a group of singers between the ages of 18 and 89 who raise their voices in music and joy. They weren’t planning on adding that to their retirement package, but Susie freely admits: “It’s our fault. It was my idea to start the children’s choir and my idea to start the Community Chorale … so we asked for it.” And, as usual, Jim mouthed those same words with Susie at exactly the same time. As always in harmony.
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WASHINGTON - A medical implant that slowly dissolves into the body could be the answer to long-standing safety concerns with devices used to treat clogged arteries. Abbott Laboratories’ newly-approved Absorb stent comes with one important caveat: It hasn’t yet been shown to be safer than older metal implants. The Food and Drug Administration approved the device for patients with coronary artery disease, the artery-narrowing condition that causes about 370,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, according to government figures. The new stent is made of a plastic-like material that’s designed to gradually dissolve over three years. Current stents are permanent, mesh-wire tubes that hold arteries open after a procedure used to clear fatty plaque. Experts describe Abbott’s device as an important step in finding a better approach to treating the leading cause of death in the U.S.
“This is presumably a better technology ... at least that’s the theory, but it will take years to prove,” said Dr. George Vetrovec, professor emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University. Vetrovec was part of an FDA advisory panel of cardiologists who overwhelmingly endorsed the device in March. The Absorb stent, already sold in Europe and Asia, is made of a degradable material that’s designed to stay intact for one year then break down over the next two years. Use of metallic stents surged in the early 2000s as a treatment for people who suffered a heart attack or experienced chest pain caused by clogged arteries that restrict blood flow. They are still implanted in about 850,000 U.S. patients annually. But doctors have scaled back their use because of safety concerns, insurance costcutting and evidence that they are overused. Studies in 2007 and 2008 suggested that stented arteries faced a higher risk of blood clots, potentially triggering heart attack a year
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or more down the road. Results of another five-year study showed that patients who received stents to treat chest pain fared about as well as those treated with drugs. Amid these concerns, Abbott and others began developing dissolving stents that would slowly melt away like stitches, presumably reducing complications. In the company study submitted to the FDA, patients who got Absorb fared about as well as those receiving Abbott’s older metal stent after one year. But heart-related complications were actually slightly higher with Absorb — 7.8percent of patients, versus 6.1percent of patients with the metal stent. That 1.7percent difference is not considered statistically significant. Other complications with the new device include allergic reactions, infections and internal bleeding. Researchers who studied Absorb said it may take years before its advantages become clear. Long-term safety results aren’t expected until
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2020. “We have good theoretical reasons to believe that by getting rid of the stent, and allowing the coronary artery to restore its normal shape, that will prevent many of those late events,” said Dr. Gregg Stone of Columbia University Medical Center, who helped conduct the pivotal trial of Absorb. Stone was not paid by Abbott for his work on the trial.
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Abbott Laboratories’ Absorb stent is designed to dissolve over three years. Current stents are permanent, mesh-wire tubes that hold arteries open after a procedure used to clear fatty plaque. (Abbott Laboratories via AP)
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