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Because your “Golden Years” should be Golden…

See why so many call Cameron Woods HOME!

Come Home To Cameron Woods, “The people are outstanding. They really are. The worst part is you eat too much and too often. My wife and I are residents and celebrating our 69th anniversary this year!”

– Paul Meyers

“I enjoy the people, our activities and the outings we go on. Living here has made life a lot simpler for us. We have less responsibilites.

You feel safe here. Help is available when you need it. I’m the sing along leader and sometimes play the piano for worship service. And I can still volunteer at Cameron Hospital.”

– Mary Lou Oakes

A Senior Living Facility You’ve worked hard your entire life and now it’s time to relax and enjoy yourself.

That’s what Cameron Woods is all about. As a resident, you’ll enjoy beautiful, comfortable surroundings and the helpful services of our friendly staff. Also, we offer short-term stays in a beautifully furnished one-bedroom apartment.

“You’re not enclosed in cement. We have a room with a beautiful view.

The management and staff have been very good and very helpful and we enjoy the people. We’re really thankful we’re still together after 74 years. That’s the highlight of our lives”

– Harold and Sylvia Dodge

Cameron Woods features: • Private apartments • Variety of floor plans • Full schedule of activities • Emergency call service • Delicious meals • Cleaning service • Laundry facilities • Wellness Center • On-site beauty salon

“I do like my home and I’ve lived here for 13 years. I like the security and my family is very happy to have me here. I like the socialibility and being able to say hello as I walk down the hall because they’re all close neighbors. I enjoy having things to occupy my mind, our activities and field trips.”

– Helen Powers (right) (One of our very 1st residents)

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“It’s a relaxing place and having my connection to Angola has been a big help. I’m one of the originals. Here they make you feel a little important and you need that at this time in life. All of the people are friendly and polite.”

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“I like the freedom without having too much responsibility. I appreciate the fact that I don’t have monthly bills to pay. I enjoy the freedom of no meals to prepare and that I don’t have a lot of home jobs that I need to do. It’s better at this stage in my life that I don’t have as much responsibilities. ”

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Zumba classes tailored for participants over 50

BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com

Ah, the joys of aging. How many times have you over-50s climbed out of bed and felt stiffness in your joints, a tightness in your back or twinge of pain in the feet.

“I would feel better if I got in shape.

I need to exercise, but … ” you probably thought to yourself, making up excuses not to work out.

Instead of whining about getting old, why not celebrate it by joining a Zumba class?

Zumba, you say. What’s that?

Zumba is a dance fitness program created in the 1990s by Colombian dancer and choreographer Alberto Perez. It involves dance and aerobics set to Latin music. Approximately 14 million people take weekly classes in gyms and fitness centers in more than 150 countries around the world.

There are squats, lunges and belly dance moves done to hip-hop, soca, samba, salsa and mambo music.

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Yes, Zumba is popular for the over-50 crowd. Flexibility, Zumba classes designed for the older generation. The moves improving balance and coordination are key components in are low-impact and done enough times for a good workout.

There are eight different levels of Zumba. A Zumba Gold class is designed are burned with weight loss and without specifically for the needs of the older injury. Zumba instructors such as those at population.

LICEN YMCAs and fitness centers understand the Rebecca Capodilupo is one of the SE H OME C D over-50s can’t do the bending, squatting over-50 Zumba enthusiasts who attributes ARE and jumping up and down younger much of personal fitness to Zumba in individuals can, and they will recommend a testimonial on the Zumba With Judy website. She says Zumba gives her energy a class that fits the proper age range.

One common complaint among the and improved muscle strength. over-50s is that their flexibility is limited.

Before starting any exercise program, Flexibility training is a key component in a those over 50 should check with their Zumba Gold class. Improving balance and doctors to determine which exercises coordination is another key component. are best. You may be taking medication One positive all Zumba enthusiasts for diabetes, arthritis or osteoporosis • Hourly and Live-In • Grocery Shopping, realize is the social benefit of working that might decrease your cardiovascular with a group of people of similar age capacity. Your doctor can tell what you Home Care Meal Preparation with similar goals in mind. It’s more should and should not do.

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‘Meditative dance’ has health benefits

Tai chi is a way of life for its practitioners

year in participating in tai chi. She is a student at the Changing Dragon, Auburn.

“I’m in it for the health benefits, hopefully preventing future health

BY JENNIFER DECKER problems. Tai chi is a low impact, slow jdecker@kpcmedia.com motion exercise that doesn’t leave you AUBURN — A tai chi student described out of breath but it does address muscle the martial art as moving meditation with strength and flexibility. And it also benefits to feeding body, mind and spirit. challenges my brain” she said.

Jane Minick, Hamilton, is in her seventh Minick said tai chi has great relaxation

and other benefits.

“It’s a slow, internal, “Before I had bad soft martial art,” Vick “One of the intrinsic values is balance problems and I said. “One of the to focus at an acute level in not intrinsic values is to wasn’t handling stress well. Learning and dwelling in the past or looking focus at an acute level practicing tai chi and in not dwelling in the into the future.” qigong has strengthpast or looking into the ened my ankles. I’ve future.” learned ways to lower Vick turned to tai my center of gravity to chi because he’s a fan Greg Vick help with balance along of former legendary with focus techniques,” Chicago Bulls coach she said.

Phil Jackson. Jackson Qigong, pronounced promotes tai chi princichee-kung, literally ples and Vick chose to means cultivating your vital energy,”qi”, follow in his idol’s footsteps. over time. As a practice it consists of a “To me, it was about staying calm. If I combination of movement, meditation, and had a coin — tai chi would be on one side breathing. Qigong practice provides the and life on the other,” Vick said. energetic foundation of tai chi.

Since he began tai chi, Vick said he has “When doing tai chi, you focus your not had one headache requiring medication. attention on the self, breathing naturally “We strive to a calm, clear mind and a and staying in the moment. It’s like a relaxed body. When we get tensed up the meditative dance. Tai chi is different than body does not function,” he said. “You other exercises because your muscles are focus on inhale and exhale.” relaxed rather than tense and your joints are Vick said some of his students who have not fully extended or bent,” Minick said. used tai chi principles have been aided in Minick said she likes the fact that you enduring cancer treatment. Another student can do tai chi anytime, anywhere, not was able to discontinue taking blood needing special clothing, music or props, pressure medication after four months of just yourself. tai chi.

What started as thoughts of only experiAccording to Changing Dragon’s encing an introductory tai chi course has website, tai chi relieves stress in learning led Minick to being hooked and adopting increased balance, flexibility, strength and the art of tai chi as a lifelong commitment. agility. The martial art is also reportedly Greg Vick is a sifu, which is the Chinese beneficial for the treatment of arthritis, word for teacher and father, at Changing osteoporosis, hypertension, anxiety, Dragon. Vick also spoke enthusiastically attention deficit disorder, fibromyalgia. about how tai chi has changed his life for chronic pain, circulation and nervous the better. system disorders.

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Tai chi training strengthens both the lower and upper extremities and also the core muscles of the back and abdomen.

Practicing this technique are, from left, Jane Minick, Roy Ahrndt, Chuck Aigner, Lori Fox, Susan Fischer, James Burns and Greg Vick.

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Multi-generational vacations offer families time together

BY KATHRYN BASSETT kbassett@kpcmedia.com

Edgerton said. He typically would plan a multi-generational family vacation for With busy schedules and family members mid-July to mid-August, with the vacation living in different areas of the country, over before children must return to school. multi-generational vacations provide He also advises looking for less-exopportunities to bring everyone together. pensive hotels and hotels with suite-style Tom Edgerton, president of Edgerton’s accommodation, allowing five or six people Travel, is experienced in planning to stay in one room. multi-generational vacations and said “We have to make this affordable,” several key considerations go into ensuring Edgerton said. the experience can be enjoyed by parents, When planning the itinerary, Edgerton children and grandparents alike. said, he likes to keep the vacation on the “The time period is pretty important,” short side — about seven to eight days. He

also likes to make the vacation active, he added.

Edgerton recently planned a vacation for a family to Colorado that included whitewater rafting, horseback riding, a visit to a gold mine and a trip up Pike’s Peak.

“We’ll keep them pretty structured so that the grandparents or parents don’t have to figure out what to do with extra time,” Edgerton said. “Kids like to be kept busy.”

Edgerton also likes to include almost all the meals in the package when planning such trips. This way he can arrange for less

expensive menus that satisfy both adults and children.

With cost in mind, Edgerton said, travel usually is by bus or by train.

Popular multi-generational vacation destinations include Colorado, Montana, whitewater rafting in West Virginia and historical and educational tours of Washington, D.C., and Williamsburg, Va., New York and Philadelphia.

Travel industry trends indicate multi-generational vacations are becoming more and more popular, Edgerton said.

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WINE Tour provides look at wineries of Indiana’s northeast

BY OCTAVIA LEHMAN olehman@kpcnews.net

LAOTTO — Wineries in Indiana’s northeast are working together to bring people to local wineries. The wineries are collaborating on a new WINE Tour, which showcases the offerings at many of the boutiques.

The WINE Tour is similar to a wine trail, said Jennifer Lutter, owner of Country Heritage and Winery in LaOtto. “We’re trying to get more people moving through the area to see what the northeast has to offer,� Lutter said.

Guests can receive a passport at any of the seven northeast Indiana winery locations. Once participants have visited all seven wineries, they will receive a prize.

Currently, guests can receive a WINE Tour collector wine glass. The ďŹ rst 50

guests at each winery receive a pair of wine glasses.

Participants can visit the wineries in any order, Lutter said. “All the wineries have a different atmosphere, and something different to offer,� Lutter said.

Wineries in the tour include: • Fruit Hills Winery and Orchard, Bristol. Founded in 2010, David and Michele Muir and their son Nathan and daughter-in-law Brittany, built it on the site of a fruit farm that has been in David’s family since 1852. • Briali Vineyards & Winery, Fremont. Briana and Alicia Moeller embrace the challenge of utilizing eco-friendly practices in turning their grapes into wine. • Satek Winery, Fremont. Satek

Winery is Steuben County’s ďŹ rst winery. Pam and Larry Satek opened the winery in 2001. • Country Heritage Winery, LaOtto.

This family-owned and -operated winery is set on a DeKalb County farm. • Two-EE’s Winery, Huntington. Eric Harris and ďŹ ance Emily Hart opened Two-EE’s in 2011. The tasting room provides a full view of the production room. • McClure’s Orchard/Winery, Peru.

This family-owned and -operated apple farm specializes in bottled hard ciders

and wines. • Tonne Winery, Muncie. Brothersin-law Kevin Tonne and Larry Simmons combined their education in food science and horticulture and opened Tonne Winery in December 2009.

To get the most out of a wine tour, guests should remember to bring identiďŹ cation and check with the wineries for tastings and fees. Hours for each winery vary. Wineries in Indiana are allowed to sell alcohol on Sundays.

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Plan ahead to enjoy natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fall colors

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KENDALLVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; When it comes to wanting to see fall colors, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best to plan ahead.

Autumn leaves can bring spectacular color to locations from Michigan and Maine to the Carolinas, said Ron Godby and Sheryl Godby of S&S Travel Inc. in Kendallville.

The trick is to know when to travel to the sites where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to see the colors, or to know where to go when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to make the trip, Sheryl said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It depends on what time of the year you go and what part of the country you go to,â&#x20AC;? Ron said.

Colors tend to start turning in northern Michigan as early as mid-September, Sheryl said. When you get down to the Carolinas, the best time to go can be anywhere from late October to early November.

The reality is, the leaves may or may not be peaking in color on any given date, Sheryl said.

One of the reasons for taking a motor coach tour, such as those S&S operates, is to be able to enjoy the colors instead of worrying about driving, Sheryl said.

Another is that tours provide events beyond just looking at the colors, Ron said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Motor coach tours are structured,â&#x20AC;? he said. That also provides an enjoyable time if the colors havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet come or have already gone.

You have to consider three things in choosing a tour, Ron said: dates, location and budget. How many days and how far you travel may impact what trip you can afford to take.

If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a particular spot you want to visit, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best to plan for that in advance, he said. For instance, tour operators based in New England often require you to drive there for local fall colors tours, and for those tours you need to book as much as a year in advance.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also important to recognize that bookings have to be completed early, Ron said. To get deposits back if a tour doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sell to enough passengers to be proďŹ table, cancellations for various stops need to be made 30-45 days ahead.

Sometimes a tour would have gone if someone who called at the last minute simply had called earlier, Ron said.

S&S has fall color tours planned for this year to Nashville, Ind., in Brown County on Oct. 19 and to the Biltmore

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It’s never too late to pick up that paint brush

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KENDALLVILLE — Sometimes, you just need a little art in your life. But teaching yourself isn’t easy.

Peggy Tassler of Sozo Art Studio of Kendallville and Linda Chase of the Kingsbury Art Gallery of Howe can help.

In addition to opening galleries that display the work of local artists, both galleries also offer art lessons for those interesting in learning how to create art, or those just wishing to shake the rust of talents they put on the back burner years ago. Both agree that small towns are realizing how important the arts can be.

Many of Tassler’s students studied art in school but put their palates and brushes down as they raised their families.

Tassler earned her degree in fine arts from Indiana University. A noted muralist, she also works with interior designs to create custom textured faux finishes in area homes and businesses. Tassler, who

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loves to paint, displays a collection of her own work in one corner of her downtown Kendallville gallery, located at 102 S. Main St. Like so many other trained painters, she loves to teach.

“We all have creativity in us,” Tassler said. “I show my students different techniques they can try that will help them learn and grow.”

Tassler teaches both drawing and watercolors, saying both are inexpensive mediums for the beginning artist. Her key to teaching is to break art down into its basic elements. Tassler’s classroom one flight downstairs from her gallery is open for both individuals and group lessons. She also teaches pottery and hand potting.

“Art brings people together who might not meet in other situations,” Tassler explained. “Art is that creative outlet you can use to express yourself.”

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Tassler offers classes aimed at youngsters.

She said she thinks that is even more important in this day and age when schools are cutting back on art education.

“I teach children’s art classes, too.

We’re losing that in the schools. When budgets are tight, art is first thing to go,”

Tassler explained. “But I think art is important, too. It gives children critical learning skills and allows them to express who they are. It connects them to the world around them.”

Howe’s Kingsbury Gallery added a pottery studio, Carriage House Pottery, to

its collection of galleries and classroom. It is located on the square in Howe.

“We have two resident potters, six wheels and five kilns,” Chase said.

Chase is a veteran gallery owner and brought that experience to Howe. The gallery’s central location on Howe’s historic town square made it a highly visible addition to the local landscape. It is now celebrating its fourth season.

The gallery’s resident instructors teach all aspects of potting, from using a wheel and throwing a pot, to firing and glazing.

In addition to teaching potting, the Howe gallery can call on any one of the 65 artists it represents to host a class.

The gallery also offers lessons in creating fused glass. Chase said the summer of 2013 has been the best in the history of the Kingsbury House Gallery.

The Howe gallery will once again be taking part in Howe’s annual late summer celebration, Indiana Summer Days scheduled for Sept. 20-21.

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These club members have nothing but fun, fun, fun!

Corvette owners bond together through love of America’s classic sportscar

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KIMMELL — The Fort Wayne Corvette Club, whose membership list extends throughout northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio, makes no secret that it is an open-door community with one key requirement.

You have to either own, or love, a Chevrolet Corvette, perhaps the most iconic American automobile still in production. The club has 153 members Paul Clawson who gather to share their common passion on an almost constant basis.

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A majority of the club’s members are easily over the age of 50, Clawson said.

Club members meet on a regular basis to race, show and enjoy their cars with fellow members.

“On any given weekend, there would be something you could participate in,” said Clawson. “It could be a car show, a parade or a speed event somewhere. If nothing else, it will be a cruise to somewhere to eat.

“We belong to the National Council of Corvette Clubs and are active year round,” he continued. “We support local charities such as the Multiple Sclerosis Walk, the Hope Alive, The Shepherds House and the Samaritan House shelters.”

Membership is open to all Corvette owners and enthusiasts. Meetings are held the first Tuesday of each month at Summit City Chevrolet on Illinois Road in Fort Wayne. The dealership acts as the club’s sponsor.

Those “races” are not traditional speed races. Most Corvette owners are too appreciative of their autos’ powerful capabilities to race them. Instead, low-speed, precision demonstrations and

competitions are held that allow drivers to show off their skills as well as the beauty of their high-priced machines.

One recent event was held at the Grissom Air Force Base in Peru, where unused runways offer plenty of the space needed for the friendly competitions.

But most club members’ Corvettes are not fresh off the showroom.

“I bought my first Corvette when I was 19 years old. My wife, Kay, had one she could drive when she was 18,” Clawson said. “We have been club members since 1994.”

A Corvette on a showroom floor can carry a price tag of much more than $50,000 and deluxe models can have a sticker price of more than $100,000.

It is also the world’s longest-running continuously produced sports car and the best-selling sports car in America, commanding 33 percent of the segment.

Corvette’s legacy was forged 60 years ago when it was introduced at the General Motors Motorama show in New York City. The Corvette wasn’t born an icon, however, as Clawson and other enthusiasts will attest. It earned its reputation as America’s finest sports car through decades of continual refinement and fundamental engineering advancements. The car is in its seventh generation of production style.

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A push for harmony among workers, young and old CHICAGO (AP) — There’s a sense of urgency to the quest for workplace harmony, as baby boomers delay retirement and work side-by-side with people young enough to be their children — or grandchildren.

Put people of widely different ages together and there are bound to be differences. Baby boomers, for example, may be workaholics, while younger workers may demand more of a work-life balance.

The solution for a growing number of companies: generational awareness training to help foster understanding and more effective communication among its workers.

Employees are taught about the characteristics that define each generation, from their core values to their childhood and adolescent experiences to the type of figures they regard as heroes. Then workshop leaders typically drill down into how those attributes play into the strengths and weaknesses each age group offers on the job.

The goal is that by learning why people of different generations act the way they do, companies can better emphasize their employees’ strengths and find ways to overcome challenges “The boomers say, ‘Now I understand a little bit more of why they’re always on their phones,’” said Juergen Deutzer, who leads generational training at San Diego-based Scripps Health for about 200 employees a year. “Gen Y says, ‘Maybe I need to be a little bit more understanding if someone doesn’t get a grasp on technology.’”

Companies downplay friction between old and young workers as a reason for training. They say it’s more a matter of helping people of different ages connect, which affects group cohesion, employee satisfaction and the overall quality of work.

“There was no animosity, no aggression, none of that,” said Scott Redfearn, the top human resources executive at Protiviti, a global consulting firm based in Menlo Park, Calif., that began offering generational training earlier this year. “But you really need the team dynamic to work well because it’s that collective genius of the team with all kinds of people, all kinds

of background, all different generations.”

Protiviti was seeing a higher turnover rate among its youngest employees, and an internal survey found those workers craved more guidance from their superiors.

The company revised its performance review system, started giving employees more feedback and changed the way it used social media. It also began putting executives and managers through training led by Chuck Underwood, an expert on generational differences. By next year, all new employees at Protiviti will go through a session, alongside more traditional training fare on topics such as sexual harassment, diversity and ethics.

Jennifer Luke, a 33-year-old Protiviti employee, attended two 90-minute sessions this summer and was struck by how closely the generational attributes she learned about applied to her and others in her life.

“It’s an awareness tool. You think about it if you’re going to send an email to a client, for example,” she said. “You just take an extra minute or two as you’re planning a project or communicating with a client to think about how you’re structuring those communications.”

Gen Xers prefer to work individually.

Boomers and millennials thrive in groups.

The oldest workers, from the Silent Generation, are known for loyalty and respect for authority; the youngest, from a yet-unnamed generation, are far more informal and global-minded. Language and cultural references, naturally, vary widely by age.

Ingrid Hassani, a 58-year-old patient care manager at Scripps, said learning about generational differences helped explain why older nurses might hesitate to approach doctors, viewing them “almost like God,” while younger nurses are “very comfortable to go right up and talk to them.” It also helped when she found her younger subordinates were cutting corners in the hospital’s 18-step process for giving a patient medication as simple as Tylenol.

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This photo taken Aug. 6 shows Brad Karsh of JB Training Solutions speaking to a group of generation X’ers at the Hu-Friedy Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. There’s a new urgency to the quest for workplace harmony, as baby boomers delay retirement and work side-by-side with people young enough to be their children — or grandchildren. Put people of widely different ages together, and there are bound to be differences. Baby boomers, for example, are workaholics, while Gen Xers demand more work-life balance. Millennials are masters of technology and have high, high expectations.

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“They want to know the why behind everything,” Hassani said. “But once their questions are answered, they are fine.”

When Lisa Williams, executive director of the University of Kentucky Institute for Workplace Innovation, held focus groups with local businesses to determine the most pressing issues of an aging workforce, generational differences dominated the discussion. Now she’s working to get a generational training program started.

“Most of the time there was no conflict, but there were these islands of older workers and younger workers,” she said, “and they’re not able to understand the others, so there’s a lot of judgment.”

Underwood said he began getting a flood of calls from human resources departments in the mid-2000s as millennials began their careers.

“Something’s going on in our workplace that we don’t understand,” he remembered being told. “What was going on was the next American generation was entering adulthood, bringing very different

core values, very different skills and very different weaknesses.”

Training to bridge the generational divide is becoming more commonplace.

Brad Karsh, of JB Training Solutions, holds roughly 150 sessions a year, half focused on helping younger employees understand older ones, and the other half on helping older employees understand younger ones. A recent Chicago workshop falls in the latter group.

Millennials take a bit of a good-humored bruising during the discussion, for a perceived sense of entitlement, a constant desire for explanation and discontent with entry-level tasks. “I Love Millennials” buttons were given away, perhaps to soften the blow, and Karsh acknowledged that pointing out the flaws of a younger generation is “a time-honored tradition.”

He urged participants to see beyond the stereotypes and note that each generation brings a particular skill set to work.

“They’re not better, not worse, just different,” he said. “What’s important is understanding what those differences are.”

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This Jan. 3, 2009, file photo shows a person with diabetes testing his blood sugar level in Kamen, Germany. New research published in the Aug. 8 New England Journal of Medicine suggests a possible way to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease: keeping blood sugar at a healthy level. A study found that higher glucose levels, even those well short of diabetes, seemed to raise the risk for dementia.

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Higher blood-sugar levels, even those well short of diabetes, seem to raise the risk of developing dementia, a major new study finds. Researchers say it suggests a novel way to try to prevent Alzheimer’s disease — by keeping glucose at a healthy level.

Alzheimer’s is by far the most common form of dementia and it’s long been known that diabetes makes it more likely. The new study tracked blood sugar over time in all sorts of people — with and without diabetes — to see how it affects risk for the mind-robbing disease.

The results challenge current thinking by showing that it’s not just the high glucose levels of diabetes that are a concern, said the study’s leader, Dr. Paul Crane of the University of Washington in Seattle.

“It’s a nice, clean pattern” — risk rises as blood sugar does, said Dallas Anderson, a scientist at the National Institute on Aging, the federal agency that paid for the study.

“This is part of a larger picture”

and adds evidence that exercising and controlling blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol are a viable way to delay or prevent dementia, he said.

Because so many attempts to develop effective drugs have failed, “It looks like, at the moment, sort of our best bet,” Anderson said. “We have to do something.

If we just do nothing and wait around till there’s some kind of cocktail of pills, we could be waiting a long time.”

About 35 million people worldwide have dementia; in the United States, about 5 million have Alzheimer’s disease. What causes it isn’t known. Current treatments just temporarily ease symptoms. People who have diabetes don’t make enough insulin, or their bodies don’t use insulin well, to turn food into energy. That causes sugar in the blood to rise, which can damage the kidneys and other organs — possibly the brain, researchers say.

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help treat or prevent dementia. That would have to be tested in a new study, and people should not seek blood-sugar tests they wouldn’t normally get otherwise, Crane said.

“We don’t know from a study like this whether bringing down the glucose level will prevent or somehow modify dementia,” but it’s always a good idea to avoid developing diabetes, he said.

Eating well, exercising and controlling weight all help to keep blood sugar in line.

The study involved 2,067 people 65 and older in the Group Health Cooperative, a Seattle-area health care system. At the start, 232 participants had diabetes; the rest did not. They each had at least five blood-sugar tests within a few years of starting the study and more after it was underway. Researchers averaged these levels over time to even out spikes and dips from testing at various times of day or before or after a meal.

Participants were given standard tests for thinking skills every two years and asked about smoking, exercise and other things that affect dementia risk.

After nearly seven years of follow-up,

524, or one quarter of them, had developed dementia — mostly Alzheimer’s disease.

Among participants who started out without diabetes, those with higher glucose levels over the previous five years had an 18 percent greater risk of developing dementia than those with lower glucose levels.

Among participants with diabetes at the outset, those with higher blood sugar were 40 percent more likely to develop dementia than diabetics at the lower end of the glucose spectrum.

The effect of blood sugar on dementia risk was seen even when researchers took into account whether participants had the apoE4 gene, which raises the risk for Alzheimer’s.

At least for diabetics, the results suggest that good blood-sugar control is important for cognition, Crane said.

For those without diabetes, “it may be that with the brain, every additional bit of blood sugar that you have is associated with higher risk,” he said. “It changes how we think about thresholds, how we think about what is normal, what is abnormal.”

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