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Grandparents’ Role Isn’t Always the Stuff of High-Tech Gadgets or TV Advertising all work out with a new boyfriend.

Dear Readers, Three months later, the 12-year-old called Howard to say they hadn’t had re you a high-tech anything to eat for three days. When grandparent? Do you I met Howard, he had moved the text and e-mail and order children to central Florida to live with gifts online? Is Facebook him. He admitted that his struggles part of your daily routine?

Janice Doyle, were not like many grandparents If you’re “connected” this Editor raising grandchildren because he had Grandparents Day, you enough money to care for them. Still, may receive an eCard, a text message at 81, he realized his limitations. “I’m or a “Hey” on your Facebook page giving it my all while I can,” he said. instead of a Hallmark card.

Just as technology has changed, so Two Saturdays every month, Jane has grandparenting. TV ads would (71) dresses to her usual impeccable have us think all interaction with standards for an outing with two grandchildren is fun and games. If grandsons. What she does those two grandpa gets his health in order, acSaturdays is not how she had anticipatcording to the ad, he can play on a sun- ed her role as a grandmother, however. ny day with his small grandson. But She has custody of the two teenagers we all know of families where being a while her son—their father—is in grandparent is just plain difficult, often prison in north Florida. On visitation stretching into downright painful. days, they leave her elegant home Here are some of the grandparents early to be in line when the prison whose stories have touched my opens for visitors at 9 a.m. There is no heart in the past few years. All slouching in Jane’s posture and a smile names have been changed. lights her face as she chats with other

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Doris was sitting alone looking shell-shocked at a gathering after her 16-year-old grandson’s local funeral.

He had died in a car accident, and she was enduring one of the three memorial services which would be held in three different states where he and his family had lived. I did not know her, but I went to sit beside her and hold her hand. She smiled weakly and said, “I didn’t know it was possible to hurt this much.”

Regina’s new grandparent status took a sudden turn when her grandson was diagnosed with autism before he was two. She said she felt a “double edged sword knowing what lies ahead for our family and grief for my daughter’s personal agony.”

Howard knew his daughter in New York City was high on drugs most of the time. On a visit there, he realized how bad the situation was for the children, ages 10, 12 and 16. The daughter, however, told a good story about changing her life and making it Mature Lifestyles • September 2011 • page 2

visitors and jokes with her grandsons as they wait. “It’s not what I thought I’d be doing, but I wouldn’t think of being anywhere else on those days.

He’s my son and they’re his sons.

It’s what families do,” she told me.

(Of note: Estimates vary, but it is thought that at any one time 10 million children in the U.S. have a parent either in prison or on parole or probation. Just think of the number of grandparents affected.)

I first met the Carters when they were camped at an RV park in Riverview. They were living in a small, aging RV as cheaply as it was possible to live. A year before, their daughter and son-in-law’s drug use was draining the couple’s financial, emotional and physical resources.

Two grandchildren were pawns in the “game” the daughter played with the Carters to get money to buy drugs.

Also involved were judges who wouldn’t give them custody. After trying everything possible to be able to raise the children without interference

from the addicted parents, Hazel and James made a heartrending decision to sell out and go “on the road” with the RV, away from their daughter.

“We’ll go back when we can help the children pick up the pieces of their lives without the parents,” James said.

Arthur, an Army retiree, has two grandsons serving in the Marines.

Each grandson has been deployed to Iraq and/or Afghanistan three times. While attention is often given to spouses, children and parents of deployed soldiers, the part grandparents play is often overlooked. Arthur knows the loneliness and dangers of deployment. He agonizes as he watches the news, sends the men e-mails and prays for their safe return.

And so our staff honors all grandparents this month. May we all continue doing whatever needs to be done for the good of our grandchildren (and great grandchildren) in the spirit noted by former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani: What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

Keep on lovin’ . . . and maybe it’s time to bake some cookies!

Remember 9/11

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his month marks the ten year anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. It is a time to remember the victims and heroes of that tragic day.

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Go to www.facebook.com and search for Senior Connection and Mature Lifestyles. Then click on the “Discussion” tab at the top of the page to share your memories with us.

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Historic Leesburg Home on National Register

this time to the John S. and Mary James Morris family who n iconic residence that brings inhabited it for the next 70 years. the history of Leesburg to In December 1974, the structure life welcomes visitors to experiearned another star in its crown by ence a taste of old Leesburg. being added to the U.S. National Greeters and tour guides to this twoRegister of Historic Places. story Victorian architectural beauty In 1988, Morrison United Methhelp visitors recall an age of gracious odist Church purchased the home living and bygone splendor. It is still and offered it to anyone who basically intact in original design with would move it off Main Street. updates like air conditioning to render Local residents raised $95,000 it more convenient for sponsored in 1990 to buy the land, and events and free tours, overseen by hundreds of citizens turned out to the Leesburg Heritage Society. watch the tortoise-paced move of The residence was home to three the 150-ton home to its present loprominent Leesburg families. It was cation, 1195 W. Magnolia Street. built by then-Leesburg mayor Edward Glorianna Fahs takes care of openT. Mote for his wife, Lucretia, in ing the home for special occasions 1892 and was a crowning jewel on such as weddings and birthday parties.

Leesburg’s Main Street. Back in the The Mote-Morris House also is day, its construction cost was less than the site of several annual city-wide $10,000. Methodist Bishop Henry Clay fundraising events, such as “Beast Morrison then purchased the residence Feast” sponsored by the Leesburg for his retirement home, but in 1918, Center for the Arts and “Fish Fries” the property changed hands yet again, by Leesburg Partnership.

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A gift of cashOF or securities this time may not be practical.Your KING DONORS REALatESTATE personal residence, farm, vacation home, commercial property,

have been thinking about making a substantial or parcel of undeveloped land might be more suitable. o Cornerstone Hospice – formerly Hospice of present or future gift offers you the opportunity for valuable nd Sumter –Aperhaps you should consider Real income tax and estate tax savings.

You A gift of cash or securities at this time may not also can free yourself burdensome management and problems involved in selling ctical. Your of personal residence, farm, vacation the property or leaving it to estate liquidation. e, time share, commercial property, or parcel undeveloped land besell more Whether wemight keep or the suitable. property, you will make a satisfying and enduring contribution to Cornerstone Hospice to benefit

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family room. All the doors feature highly decorative metal hinges, and transoms over each door provided air circulation. Glorianne Fahs, the local expert on the house, says, “There are distinct northern features about the house such as the steep pitch of the roof, even though we don’t have snow here. The house has six coal-burning fireplaces and coal for them was stored in a basement.”

The house boasts 12-foot ceilings, faux marble fireplaces, several balconies and that sweeping view of Leesburg.

The Mote-Morris house is open on the fourth Saturday of September and then the second and fourth Saturdays all winter. Event promoters can reserve the house by calling (352) 315-1800 or the Parks and Recreation Department at (352) 728-9885.

The historic Mote-Morris house.

One distinguishing factor about the house is the tower. One story is that Mr. Mote liked to look out on the city from its position on Main Street (before its 1990 move). Another story is that it was a good place to watch for fires—he was fire chief, you know.

Inside the house there are original heart pine floors and beautiful burled wood panels under windows in the

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“All American,” American spirit selections. $5 to $11 tickets.

6 p.m. Church on the Square, The Villages, Lady Lake. (352) 753-3229.

“9/11—Today and Always” patriotic program. 7 p.m. Ocala Symphony Orchestra’s Brass Quintet and students from local schools and University of Florida. $12. Circle Square Cultural Center, Ocala. (352) 854-3670.

“Freedom, A Musical Tribute to 9/11/2001.” 7 to 8:30 p.m.

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7 to 8 p.m. Downtown Square, Ocala. Call (352) 671-4900.

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Circle Square Cultural Center, Ocala. Call (352) 854-3670.

through Oct. 2 Theatre production of “Chicago.” Ocala Civic Theatre. (352) 236-2274.

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Live Jazz music, food and wine. $2 admission. Lakeridge Winery, Clermont. (352) 394-8627.

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Square Foot Gardening Method class with Steve Earls of SFG Supply in Eustis at 10 a.m. in the Cooper Memorial Library. Registration is not necessary; free. For information, call (352) 253-6167 or visit their website at mylakelibrary.org.

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through Oct. 9 Theatre production of “Breaking Legs.”

Ice House Theatre, Mount Dora.

Tickets and info at (352) 383-4616.

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through Oct. 19 Theatre production of “Dracula.”

Bay Street Players at State Theatre, Eustis. Call (352) 357-7777.

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“Beetle Beat Concert.” 7 p.m.

Circa Ed Sullivan 1964 show. $15. Mount Dora Community Bldg., Mount Dora. (352) 383-1958.

Simply Streisand: A Tribute to the Artistry of Barbra Streisand with Carla Del Villaggio.

6 and 8:30 p.m. shows. $27.

Savannah Center, The Villages, Lady Lake. (352) 753-3229. through October 9 Theatre production of “Cabaret.”

Melon Patch Theatre, Leesburg.

Call (352) 787-3013.

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through October 23 Theatre production of “Willy Wonka.”

Moonlight Warehouse Theatre, Clermont. (352) 319-1116.

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and 25 Olympia Dukakis in “Rose,” the story of an 80-yearold Jewish woman remembering events. $40 per person, ($65 per person for performance plus a “meet and greet” post performance with Ms. Dukakis.) College of Central Florida, Ocala. (352) 873-5810.

Send Around Town news to Mature Lifestyles Magazine, 1602 S. Parsons Ave., Seffner, FL 33584; fax (813) 651-1989. News must be received by the 10th of the month prior to event (i.e. September 10 for October event.)

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Keeping Joe Cool: An Interview with Joe Montana F

overweight, are sedentary, smoke our-time Super Bowl champion Joe Montana is also known by the cigarettes, it’s dangerous. One of the nickname Joe Cool for his steely grace reasons Joe Montana is such a wonderful spokesperson for this campaign under pressure. Even as a highly conis he represents the ditioned professional absolutely classic case. athlete, Joe became He never smoked, was one of the 65 million always fit and was never people in the nation overweight. There was living with high blood a little heredity, but he’s pressure (HBP). like the 90 percent of Gary Barg, Editor people in that he just got of Caregiver.com, sat it. One out of every three down with Joe and Dr. adults has it (65 million).

James Rippe, M.D., an There is a 10 percent associate professor of increase in problems cardiovascular mediper decade. By the time cine at Tufts University you are 40, there is a 40 School of Medicine in percent chance, by the Boston, Massachusetts, time you are 50, there is and a leading authora 50 percent chance of ity on preventative Football legend Joe Montana getting hypertension. cardiology, to discuss high blood pressure Gary Barg: Joe, since you didn’t prevention techniques of importance have any symptoms, how did to caregivers and loved ones alike. you find out that you had high blood pressure?

Gary Barg: Tell me about the BP Success Zone Campaign.

Joe Montana: I went for a Dr. James Rippe: It’s a public educa- physical. I was doing my husbandly duty and was tion campaign. Joe and I have been just trying to get in and to 30 cities trying to raise awareness out of the doctor’s about the dangers of high blood office so I could pressure and get more people’s high blood pressure into the Blood Pressure check that box for the year. I was perfectly Success Zone. The great thing about fine. I went in there with the having Joe as a partner is that people expectation I’d go through say, “He is a relatively young athlete the motions and get out of with high blood pressure…maybe I could have it too.” We are trying to get there. When she told me my blood pressure was people in a dialog with their doctor.

That’s what this campaign is all about. high, she sent me directly to a cardiologist.

For 90 percent of the people who have high blood pressure, we don’t Gary Barg: What was know the cause. We know there your blood pressure? are associations between being Joe Montana: It was overweight and smoking cigarettes over 140 over 90. and being inactive. There is a That was way up from hereditary component too, but 90 the year before. percent are of unknown origin.

Gary Barg: So, depending on your situation, it could be genetics, it could be dieting, it could be exercise—we just don’t know.

Gary Barg: What did they say caused it?

Dr. James Rippe: We just know if you have hypertension and you are

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Joe Montana: It was probably due to my cutting back on exercise from when I was on the team. And I was eating foods like steak and fried chicken. I knew my grandfather passed away when he was 54 from heart disease. So it could have been a combination of a lot of things.

Tips for Maintaining Blood Pressure

Dr. Rippe’s guide for maintaining healthy blood pressure: • Pay attention to having fruits and vegetables and whole grains, and less processed foods because there is salt in them.

Gary Barg: Are you on medication now?

• Engage in regular physical activity.

• Know your reading (90% of us Joe Montana: Yes. I am on will get high blood pressure). a combination of medications.

• Know that very good medicines The key to the program is to are available. consult with your doctor, to get • Keep your weight down. proper exercise with your diet and • Try not to smoke. also make sure you are on the right

medication. Just because it’s right with me, doesn’t mean it’s right with everyone else.

Gary Barg: Do you still have to watch what you eat even though you are on medications?

Joe Montana: Yes, one of the things that I have found is that I was eating a typical American diet where you eat a lot of food—and food that is not good for you. I started by cutting back on portion size. In the past, I would rarely order fish in restaurants; now I find a lot of fish that I like. But it all started by cutting back on things like steak and fried chicken. You find that your taste buds change eventually. I still have fried chicken on occasion, but I won’t eat that super size of chips. Now, I can just have a few, and I’m O.K. Gary Barg: What exactly is the Blood Pressure Success Zone?

Joe Montana: The success zone is when your blood pressure is between 139 over 89 or below 120 over 80. So anything below that 139 over 89 is the goal you want to reach.

More Helpful Info: Joe Montana and Dr. James Rippe have collaborated on a book titled “Joe Montana’s Family Playbook for Managing High Blood Pressure,” which provides tips and anecdotes about living a heart-healthy lifestyle, a medication tracker, suggested heart-healthy meals and exercises you can easily fit into your daily routine. Montana says, “After I was diagnosed with high blood pressure, my family and I really could have used a book like this. It is a great motivational and educational tool.”

This book is available at amazon.com.

Gary Barg’s note to caregivers: Pay attention to yourself and once you realize you are at risk for having high blood pressure, you have to moderate everything.

Joe Montana concludes: Get the family involved. Remove the salt shaker from your side of the table. His wife reminds him to take his medicine. “Getting it under control is hard enough.

Staying there is another issue.”

Interview from Caregiver.com, editor Gary Barg. For more information, visit online at BPSuccessZone.com.

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The Healthy Geezer

BY FRED CICETTI

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Do men get osteoporosis?

A: Yes, men do get osteoporosis,

but women are at greater risk.

Osteoporosis, or porous bone, is a disease characterized by low bone mass and structural deterioration of bone tissue. This condition creates an increased risk of fractures.

Osteoporosis is a major public health threat for 44 million Americans; about 68 percent of them are women. One out of every two women and one in four men over 50 will have an osteoporosisrelated fracture in their lifetime.

Our bodies remove old bone and replace it with new bone. During our growth stage, new bone is added faster than old bone is removed. We hit peak bone mass around age 30. After that age, we lose more bone than we form.

Who is at risk of getting osteoporosis?

The chances are greater if you are a

woman. Women have less bone tissue and lose bone faster than men because of changes from menopause. Small, thin-boned women are at greater risk.

Caucasian and Asian women are at highest risk. Age is a major risk factor because bones become thinner and weaker as you age. Heredity can also increase fracture risk.

Low calcium intake appears to be associated with bone loss. Good sources of calcium include low-fat dairy products, dark-green leafy vegetables, almonds and foods fortified with calcium, such as orange juice. Some people may need to take a calcium supplement.

Vitamin D plays an important role in calcium absorption and in bone health. It is made in the skin through exposure to sunlight. Vitamin D production decreases in the elderly, in people who are housebound and for people in general during the winter.

Depending on your situation, you may need to take vitamin D supplements.

Bone responds to exercise by becom-

Does Sex Help or Hurt the Heart As We Age? I s sex a form of exercise that can keep us healthy or a threat to those with heart disease? The June issue of the Harvard Men’s Health Watch reviews research on the connection between sex and health.

According to one study, sex doesn’t count as heart-protective exercise.

This research monitored middle-aged male and female volunteers while they walked on a treadmill in the lab and during private sexual activity at home. The two are not equal—the treadmill proved more strenuous.

During sex, the men raised their heart rates only 72 percent as high as they did on the treadmill. Sex was even less strenuous for women in terms of heart rate, blood pressure and perceived exertion. All in all, average sexual activity ranks as mild to moderate in terms of exercise intensity.

But if sex can’t protect the heart, can it hurt it? Careful studies show

that fewer than one of every 100 heart attacks is related to sexual activity, and for fatal arrhythmias the rate is just one in 200. So for a healthy 50-year-old man, the risk of having a heart attack in any given hour is about one in a million; sex doubles the risk, but it’s still just two in a million. For men with heart disease, the risk is 10 times higher, but even for them, the chance of suffering a heart attack during sex is just 20 in a million, which are pretty safe odds.

The best way to stay healthy and protect cardiovascular health is to avoid tobacco, exercise regularly, eat a good diet, stay lean and limit alcohol. Do not initiate sexual activity if you are not feeling well, and anyone experiencing possible cardiac symptoms during sex should interrupt the sexual activity at once.

With these simple guidelines and precautions, sex is safe for the heart.

ing stronger. Weight-bearing exercise is the best for your bones. Get off the sofa.

Women who smoke have lower levels of estrogen compared to nonsmokers, and they often go through menopause earlier. Smokers also may absorb less calcium from their diets. Quit.

Regular consumption of 2 to 3 ounces a day of alcohol may be damaging to the skeleton. Heavy drinkers are more prone to bone loss and fractures, because of poor nutrition and increased risk of falling. Quit or, at least, cut down.

People may not know they have osteoporosis until their bones become so weak that a bump or fall causes a hip to fracture or a vertebra to collapse.

See your doctor for a check-up.

Following a comprehensive medical assessment, your doctor may recommend that you have your bone mass measured. A bone mineral density (BMD) test is the best way to determine your bone health. BMD tests can identify osteoporosis, determine your risk for fractures and measure your

response to osteoporosis treatment. The most widely recognized bone mineral density test is called a dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry or DXA test.

A comprehensive osteoporosis treatment program includes a focus on proper nutrition, exercise and safety issues to prevent falls that may result in fractures. In addition, your physician may prescribe a medication to slow or stop bone loss, increase bone density and reduce fracture risk.

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Wanna Hear from Your Grandkids? Text Them!

“Picking up the phone and having a conversation is like Kryptonite. They t’s quick. It’s easy. don’t want to touch it.”

They answer,” said How do the kids think?

Ralph Johnson, talking Today’s kids think texting about using text messagis practical. They’d say, es to stay in touch with “Hey, Nana, this is the way his 14-year-old grandI like to talk.” No, it’s not daughter and 11-year-old like being on the phone, but it creates grandson. Ruth and Nathan’s famthe option of learning to text and ily spent the past year in a village in saying, “Wow my grandchild texted Honduras and texting is one way they me on his way home from school.” kept in touch with their grandparents.

Olanoff (who texts his own grandTV star Doris Roberts once said mother and then receives a phone call that if she called her grandson and back from her) looks at it this way: left a message, she never heard back “Communication is at the core. They from him. But if she sent him a text want to communicate. We’re seeing message, she got an instant answer. a renaissance of communication and That’s very typical, according to the tool being used is texting.” “textpert” Drew Olanoff, marketHe likens texting to a game. It’s ing manager for textPlus. quick.

You don’t have to stop and Texting is both a noun and a verb, pick up the phone. “You text ‘Hi.’ which means you both have it and They text ‘hi’ back to you.” do it. And if you’re a grandparent Olanoff notes that a text conversaand wonder what’s happening to tion is always ‘green,’ meaning it’s this younger generation, you might ongoing. “I never say goodbye in just want to spend time with your texting,” he says. It’s always there, grandchild learning to text. an open line of communication Think about it. Even if Susie has her and you can jump right in.” hands all over her fancy phone, it’s Kids like the lack of formaltoo embarrassing in today’s world ity, too. “Do you want to go to to use the phone to call Grandpa. the movies tonight?” doesn’t have You can, however, focus on the fact to be introduced by “Hi, how are that Susie has a communication tool you? Are you busy?” It’s not really and know that she’d love to text something we’ve ever seen before. you. Olanoff asks, “Does it feel any Although Olanoff is excited about less awesome if your grandchild those 10 billion messages sent, he says ‘I love you’ in text?”

In May, textPlus (a free and unlimited realizes that everybody “loves to texting app) crossed the 10 billion mes- get a phone call, hear the voice.”

But there is a place if you want to sages-sent mark. When that company communicate with your grandchild surveyed a segment of its users, they that you won’t mind if it’s a text found that 81 percent of respondents’ message. “Texting is hot now and kids grandparents are indeed “mobile” are reaching out with it,” he says. (i.e., they own a cell phone). They He urges grandparents to understand further found that among users ages that it’s communication, just in a differ13 – 17, 24 percent prefer to text with ent way: Focus on the interaction and their grandparents and 40 percent of grandchildren would like to use text to communication rather than the delivery communicate with their grandparents. system, and you’ll stay connected.

And besides, 54 percent of What’s going on here? According respondents in that survey consider to Olanoff, kids are texting each grandparents who text to be cool. other and they want to text everyone.

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Medicare Answers D ear Marci, How does Medicaid work with Medicare to cover my health care costs?—William

Dear William, all states offer a variety of Medicaid programs, and several can help people with Medicare.

If you qualify for a Medicaid program, Medicaid can help pay for costs and services that Medicare does not cover.

For services that both Medicare and Medicaid can cover (such as doctor visits, hospital care, home care and skilled nursing facility care), Medicare will pay first and Medicaid will pay second—costs such as Medicare coinsurances and copayments.

If you have Medicare and Medicaid, you should be able to go to any doctor or provider who takes Medicare, Medicaid or who is in your Medicare private health plan’s network without having to pay the Medicare coinsurances or deductibles. You may still have to pay the Medicaid copayment for the service, depending on the rules in your state.

Medicaid can cover much more long-term care than Medicare does. Medicare requirements for coverage of longterm care services, such as home care and skilled nursing facility services, are generally stricter than Medicaid’s, and the coverage itself is much more limited.

If you have both Medicare and Medicaid, Medicare, not Medicaid, will cover your drug costs. Having Medicaid will automatically qualify you for Extra Help, the federal program that helps with the cost of Medicare prescription drug coverage (Part D).

—Marci Marci’s Medicare Answers is a service of the Medicare Rights Center (www.medicarerights. org). To speak with a counselor, call (800) 333-4114. To subscribe to “Dear Marci,” e-mail dearmarci@medicarerights.org.

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Prescription Drugs: All drugs are free with an $8 co-pay, depending on income, often eliminating the need for a Part D coverage plan.

Veterans receiving pensions are fully exempt from co-pays for VA health services, including prescriptions.

Nursing Home Care: The VA contracts with over 2,500 privately owned and operated nursing homes complementing the 132 they own themselves. Congress has ordered the VA to find a place for all veterans with a 70 percent or higher disability rating. Lower-rating veterans are also eligible but will be placed on a waiting list in areas where beds are scarce.

In-Home Care: Veterans who need in-home care and meet the income means test can receive limited home-making services and assistance and basic home health needs, to be provided by service companies contracted by the VA. Single veterans with income above $29,402 (and $32,285 for married) might have to pay a co-pay of $15 for a provided medical services visit.

Respite Care can also be provided to allow a family caregiver some time off, with co-pays from $0 to $90 per day, depending on income qualification.

Health Care Benefits: The VA provides extensive health care, including

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Three Ways to be Happy in Retirement

BY JERRY RICKER

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braham Lincoln said: “ Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

That’s positive thinking—an optimistic attitude.

Positive psychology is different.

Positive psychology, championed by psychologist Martin Seligman and others, is a research-based study of our psychological well-being. Seligman suggests there are three approaches to happiness itself. In other words, there are many ways to be happy, but each comes under one of three basic approaches. John Nelson and Richard N. Bolles discuss the three approaches as very important in living the retirement life in their book What Color Is Your Parachute? For Retirement.

Pleasure This involves having fun in an easy, relaxed way. Pleasure brings a burst of positive emotions which come and go quickly and seldom last long. Using this approach to happiness, you need to keep going back and doing enjoyable activities over and over again to get more happiness.

Engagement or involvement Another word for this approach is “flow,” which happens when your abilities are well matched to some challenging task. It’s the kind of task you get so deeply involved in that you lose track of time. You’re so engaged in it that you lose yourself in what you’re doing, often not realizing that you’re genuinely happy while you’re doing it, but afterwards you say, “That was great!”

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Engagement demands something from you, so it’s not as simple as pleasure. It can’t be bought or consumed the way pleasure can, either.

The authors point out that another difference between pleasure and engagement is that engagement sticks with you longer than pleasure does and can build up into a lasting satisfaction with life.

Contrary to the “go with the flow” approach to life, however, engagement is more like “make the flow.” It’s the difference between enjoying a baseball game and becoming a part of a team.

Meaning or purpose This approach to happiness is not as easy to pin down. The way you get meaning or purpose is to use your abilities in the service of something larger than yourself. This approach to happiness requires something of you and doesn’t come just from believing in a cause larger than yourself, but from being in service to that cause.

This is part of living your life in alignment with your core values.

Examples of what is larger than yourself depend on your belief system.

It could be God, family, environment, a political party, a particular culture.

You might find purpose in service to a neighbor who needs help, a child with difficulties or even a cause such as litter-free neighborhood walkways.

And this approach to life is more than contributing money to a cause.

Summary In the first level you are dealing with your interests. When you move to engagement, you’re looking at your skills and strengths and using them to experience engagement in an interest. But the next level—meaning or purpose—is most closely related to your values.

“What Color Is Your Parachute? For Retirement: Planning a Prosperous, Healthy and Happy Future” by John E. Nelson and Richard N. Bolles.

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Roanoke—“It’s a Blue Ridge Day! Day!” Attention Readers: The second part of our Northern Ireland story will be featured in our upcoming October editions. —Kathy Beck, Publisher.

Boston Red Sox affiliate and the beautiful stadium is simply a great place for an evening of fun.

Eat Well When in Roanoke, eat like a Southern native—that means as directly from farm to table as possible. Visit the downtown Roanoke City Market for food, shops and restaurants too.

The Local Roots restaurant features changing seasonal menus. Beverages tend to go native as well, coming from “small batch, family-owned, rare, and unique purveyors.”

For quality steak dinner, nothing beats NFL Hall of Fame coach Don Shula’s 347 Grill in the Sheraton Roanoke Hotel—delicious filet mignon and the best cheesecake in town.

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t’s a Blue Ridge Day.” That means the temperature’s perfect, the sky’s blue and all’s right with the world.

It must mean I’m in Roanoke, Virginia, right there on the Blue Ridge Parkway. What’s the buzz about Roanoke?

In the Spotlight You! Let your family know they can see you on their computers when you’re in front of the web cam located at The Roanoke Star and Overlook on Mill Mountain. You’ll go there for a bird’s eye view of the city and then you’ll call them to say you’re waving at them. The Star was built in 1949 to encourage Christmas shopping and just stayed on to become a theme for “Roanoke, the Star City.”

While you’re on Mill Mountain, visit the gardens, the Discovery Center and the little zoo.

Travel Hot Ticket!

Take me out to the Salem Red Sox Class A Minor League professional baseball team. It’s a

Top: Overlook on Mill Mountain and the Roanoke Star. Above: The Taubman Museum of Art

The Local Gem! I found several gems in Roanoke, but none more visually stunning and values-impressive than the Taubman Museum of Art. It’s a downtown architectural wonder which is “an abstract sculpture of the Blue Ridge.”

Outside design elements relate to the surrounding mountains and inside design elements reflect the rivers of the area in the rounded walls and meandering overhead designs.

This gem of a museum has nine galleries and impressive works throughout. It’s free from 5 to 9 on Friday nights. However, regular

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Link the photographer used lights and cameras and trains as he documented the last days of the steam locomotive —pictures that we recognize from ads and commercials of a bygone era.

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senior admission is just $6—one more reason it’s impressive.

In the Bag Among the city’s unique shops is chocolatepaper, featuring all things chocolate.

If you’re a treasure hunter, visit Black Dog Salvage for 40,000 square feet of architectural treasures (old church windows, etc.), antique designs like mantels and wrought iron works, furniture and much more.

All Aboard Roanoke was a railroad hub for decades and today it holds the best railroad collection in the U.S. The Hit the Trail, Jack town’s sidewalks become Pick a trail, any trail. a Rail Walk leading via signage through history and The Crooked Road In Roanoke, you’re just Virginia Heritage minutes from the famous into the Virginia Museum Appalachian Trail. If hiking Music Trail of Transportation. Located isn’t your thing, drive the in the historic Norfolk & Crooked Road Virginia Heritage Western Railway Freight Station, Music Trail.

It will lead you by way there are 50 pieces of rolling metal of numerous studios, galleries and and a huge collection that includes shops to the Blue Ridge Institute and automotive (a 1913 Detroit Electric Museum of Ferrum College. Check car), aviation, transit and more. the trails out when they all lead to the Nearby, the old Roanoke Hotel Folklife Festival at Ferrum College exudes the rich heritage of a grand the fourth Saturday of October. hotel built to house the guests who enjoyed new and luxurious transporta- The Sweet Spot The area’s best-kept secret is Hometion of the 1800s. You can relax in stead Creamery, an old fashioned the lobby while looking at the hotel’s family-owned dairy and produce history in photos, stay in one of the hot spot. Treat yourself to yummy 300+ guest rooms or enjoy a fabulous sandwiches, soups and ice cream made meal right in downtown Roanoke. right next door. Table for Two… or A movie across the street at the more. Information at visitroanoke.com.

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Parkway or Skyline Drive?

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The Blue Ridge Parkway, also a unit of the National Park System, is a landscaped corridor with a few areas of large acreage, designed as a recreational motor road connecting Great Smoky Mountains and Shenandoah National Parks.

So, one is a drive through a traditional park and one is a roadway only.

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Seniors Getting Together Attention SGTers!

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4040 SEEKING COMPATIBLE GENTLEMAN for friendship and dating, 60 – 80 years. I am 67, W female, 5’2”, 140 lbs. in good health.

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Krispy Kreme With Minimum Guilt

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ow can you enjoy a stop at a Krispy Kreme and not break the calorie bank? You almost can’t, but you can make some choices. Here’s a hint: Cinnamon’s your answer. Not one of Krispy Kreme’s cinnamonflavored creations has more than 290 calories. Example: The Cinnamon Apple Filled has 290 calories (14 sugars) and the Glazed Cinnamon Doughnut has 210 calories (12 sugars).

To go with that, enjoy a 20 oz. Orange You Glad Chiller (300 calories) instead of the Lotta Latte Chiller at 1,050 calories (and 97g sugars).

Avoid the Apple Fritter like the plague. It weighs about the same as the Cinnamon Apple but is frosted to be called the “worst item on the menu” because of the high saturated fat content.

Here’s a doughnut decoder: Original and Sugar Doughnut – 200 calories, 12g fat.

Cake Doughnut – 210 to 290 calories, 16g fat.

Iced (but not filled) Doughnut – 240 to 280 calories, 14g fat.

Filled Doughnut – 290 to 350 calories, 20g fat.

So, what’s left to enjoy? Well, pick up a serving of Glazed Chocolate Cake Doughnut Holes and enjoy 210 calories, 10g fat and 17g sugars.

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4. Use it or sell it. If you’ve received a gift card for a merchant you wouldn’t frequent, you can exchange gift cards for cash on such sites as GiftCardGranny.com and receive up to 95 percent of the card’s value in cash.

5. Use a credit card. If you’re concerned about a retailer’s financial stability but still want to buy a gift card, do so using a credit instead of a debit card. You can then ask the card issuer to withhold payment until you’re sure of the merchant’s status.

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Adobo-Rubbed Fish Tacos Preparation 1. To prepare fish: Combine 4 tsp. chili powder chili powder, lime juice, oil, (New Mexico or cumin, onion powder, garlic ancho chiles give power, salt and pepper in a small a richer flavor) bowl. Rub adobo rub all over 2 tbsp. lime juice fish. Let stand 20 to 30 minutes.

2 tbsp. olive oil 1 tsp. ground cumin 2. To prepare coleslaw: 1 tsp. onion powder Combine all ingredients except 1 tsp. garlic powder cabbage; mix until smooth and 1 tsp. salt creamy. Add cabbage and toss.

1/2 tsp. freshly ground pepper Refrigerate until ready to use.

2 lb. mahi-mahi or Pacific halibut, 3. Preheat grill to medium-high.

1/2 – 3/4 inch thick, skinned and 4. Using a grilling basket to cut into 4 portions prevent the fish from falling apart, Coleslaw grill the fish until it is cooked 1/4 cup reduced-fat sour cream through and easily flakes with 1/4 cup low-fat mayonnaise a fork, 3 to 5 minutes per side.

2 tbsp. chopped fresh cilantro Transfer the fish to a platter and 1 tsp. lime zest separate into large chunks.

2 tbsp. lime juice 5. Serve the tacos family-style by 1 tsp. sugar passing the fish, tortillas, coleslaw Salt and pepper to taste and taco garnishes separately.

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n the book, How to Raise Adult Children, Gail Parent and Susan Ende, M.F.T. tackle all sorts of issues that affect every family with adult children. Here’s one letter and answer:

Dear Gail and Susan, My son Eric was living with us for a little while after college. He finally got a good job and moved into his own apartment. That was two and a half years ago. He just lost that job and has moved back in with us. He’s depressed. How can I help him? —Robin

Retirement Living Dear Super Mom? If you, Robin, can get Eric out of his depression, someone should hand you a psychology degree immediately. He needs therapy. But until you get him to a doctor’s office, what you can do is help him get his work situation under

control. I know he knows what to do, but . . . remind him gently.

It means sending out resumes, networking at LinkedIn and going on Yahoo Jobs and other job search websites. Remind him it’s not a one-time thing.

It has to be done every day. At least he’ll be pro-active and not feel that he can’t do anything about his situation.

We get depressed when our kids get depressed. Try to smile for his sake. Also, remind him that he’s not alone and that this is a difficult time to find work and others are in the exact same situation he is. —Gail (who told her sons if they ever need to, they can move back in with her).

Sometimes a safety net becomes a trap. Moving in with parents can

sometimes make the problem for our child worse. Eric not only lost his job but he also lost his apartment, his independence, his adult identity. No wonder he’s depressed.

He thought he was launched and now he’s right back where he started—at home with Mom and Dad. Moving in with parents should not be the only option if a kid gets in trouble.

It’s often not the best option.

But here Eric is home and depressed.

I agree with Gail, that he should be looking for a job, every day in any way he can. However—and here’s where parents have to take charge— Eric should not be allowed to give up his life and become a catered-to, dependent invalid who can do nothing but look for a job.

There should be conditions for his room and board. For instance, he could be in charge of all the grocery shopping, the gardening, taking younger kids to school, all of which gets him into the world with people and making an adult contribution.

The more his parents treat him like an invalid, the more helpless and depressed he will become.

I strongly recommend that parents and child have a plan for losing a job that does not require that the kid move back home. How about three months expenses in savings, unemployment insurance, moving in with roommates and getting a temporary job to make ends meet? Life brings challenges we have to cope with.

Going back to Mom and Dad should not be a child’s only coping tool.

Certainly, if Eric is too depressed to do any of the above, he should be seen by a doctor for medication and therapy. —Susan

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