Chester County 50plus Senior News June 2014

Chester County Edition

June 2014

Vol. 11 No. 6

It’s a Great Day at the 50plus EXPO

By Christianne Rupp If you’re a baby boomer, a senior, or a caregiver, you won’t want to miss the 11th annual Chester County 50plus EXPO, which will be held on June 10, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Church Farm School in Exton.

This is a one-day event that is all about you and what is on your mind.

More than 80 exhibitors will be on hand. With plenty of room to move in the aisles, you can chat with representatives to see how their product or service can help you live a happy, healthy life.

Would you love to transform a room in your home from ho-hum to wow?

Talk to an interior decorator who can not only give you some great ideas, but can also help you design the room.

Thinking about making renovations in your home so you or a loved one can age in place? Home modification companies will be glad to share ideas.

Have some health concerns you’d like more information about? You’re sure to find knowledgeable representatives that can provide valuable information on a wide variety of issues.

On stage this year, we’ll be featuring not only entertainment, but also demonstrations. You’ll love watching and hearing Matt Macis as he delights his audience with music, hilarious comedy, memorable song-and-dance routines, and more!

Lori Rossi of Awakening Wellness Yoga – Qigong & Healing Arts Studio will show yoga poses that will work your whole body, along with creating a peaceful mind and uplifted spirit. You’ll be invited to join in to see how easy please see EXPO page 15 A look at past 50plus EXPOs gives a picture of what you’ll find this year!

Inside:

A Salute to Our Veterans of D-Day page 4

Men’s Health Resources page 10

My 22 Cents’ Worth

Good Looks and Looking Good Walt Sonneville n one corner is the undefeated reigning champion, Father Time. In the other corner is the challenger, Our Good Looks. You know how this fight will end. The question is: How many rounds will it last, and which will be the decisive round?

Good looks have advantages in the first two trimesters of an aged life.

When we enter our senior years, looks that may arouse interests from the opposite sex typically have almost entirely vanished. Who cares? By that time, our primary objectives are to feel good and look good, forsaking any hope of good looks.

Eleanor Roosevelt was no eyecatching beauty. She recognized the value of our overall appearance this way: “Beautiful young people,” she said, “are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”

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Maybe we aren’t “works of art” in the classic sense. But if we have a twinkle in our eyes and a smile on our face, we can look good without being good looking.

Once our good looks begin to vanish, we have other resources to display: charm, kindness, knowledge, integrity, humor, and, as Eleanor Roosevelt has shown, a measure of wisdom. They are all part of looking good.

There were times Abraham Lincoln depended on self-

Brig. Gen. James M. Stewart, USAF Reserve, circa 1968

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deprecating humor when campaigning for election. Henry Villard, a journalist who covered the Lincoln-Douglas debates, wrote Lincoln had a “gawky figure, an oddfeatured, wrinkled, inexpressive, and altogether uncomely face.”

When Stephan A. Douglas called Lincoln “two-faced,” Lincoln replied: “I leave it to the audience. If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one?”

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This retort scored “Father Abraham,” as he was called by those who saw in him a biblical image, election points that otherwise may have been denied him because of his lack of good looks.

Comic Jimmy Durante and physicist Albert Einstein were not handsome. Yet people found them appealing because their appearance matched the public’s image—expectations for the roles each prominently held in life. Their looks were as if each was an actor supplied by a Hollywood studio’s department of central casting.

Einstein, despite his brilliance, could not grasp his public popularity. He wondered why “no one understands me but they like me anyway. I don’t understand it.”

Our faces have to be compatible with the stereotypical image the public has of certain professions. Would Jimmy

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Durante look credible as a worldrenowned scientist and would Albert Einstein find popular support as a comedian?

Would a movie entitled Strange Love Affair have a chance as a box-office success if it starred “Groucho” Marx and Elizabeth Taylor? Our looks, good or not, support or limit us in our destined roles in life.

Richard Nixon is said to have lost voter appeal in his 1960 televised debate with presidential candidate Jack Kennedy. It was not due to Nixon’s discussion of the issues, which he handled quite well. He lost appeal because of his whisker stubble, commonly called a “five o’clock shadow” in the jargon of the 1960s. To some, the stubble made him look unpresidential, somewhat malevolent.

Roles in life are determined largely by more than just our bodies. It is our image in its entirety, including our clothing style down to the type of eyeglasses we wear. Doesn’t a Franciscan monk receive more public reverence when garbed in a brown robe, or isn’t a doctor given more credibility when wearing a white medical jacket? Imagine them both in t-shirts and jeans.

As we enter our senior years, we should give more attention to an appropriate dress style. It makes us feel better and raises the favorability quotient for how we are perceived by others.

Physical attractiveness need not be limited entirely to the young. Several famed movie stars retained a visage appeal—if not their sex appeal—as they turned elderly. Jimmy Stewart, Cary

Resource Directory Dental Services Family Cosmetic and Implant Dentistry 1646 West Chester Pike, Suite 1,West Chester (484) 551-3006 Disasters American Red Cross Greater Brandywine (610) 692-1200 Chester County Emergency Services (610) 344-5000 Salvation Army Coatesville (610) 384-2954 Salvation Army West Chester (610) 696-8746 Emergency Numbers Central PA Poison Center (800) 521-6110 Office of Aging (610) 344-6350/(800) 692-1100 Financial Services Internal Revenue Service (800) 829-3676 Funeral & Cremation Services Auer Cremation Services of Pennsylvania 4100 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg (800) 722-8200

Grant, Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Mary Martin, Myrna Loy, Barbara Stanwyck, and Greer Garson are among them. They were graced with the beauty of dignity, experience, and credibility despite their advancing years.

Seniors are past the age when they indulge their vanities in cosmetic makeovers, such as Botox injections, breast implants, liposuction, and other beautification procedures. These temporary, time-reversing treatments typically are for those entering their 40s.

Undergoing medical cosmetology is not aging gracefully; it is grasping to retain vanishing good looks rather than refining the emerging persona whose focus should be on looking good.

What happens to the body of a man with a muscle-bound torso once he reaches the fifth decade of life and

beyond? Based on photos of Arnold Schwarzenegger in swimming trunks, his Mr. Universe physique has badly deteriorated. It takes most bodybuilders two hours a day, six days a week, of weightlifting to look like a modern Goliath.

After the age of 50 we lose about 3 percent of our lean body mass per decade, most of which is muscle. It takes more time and energy than most of us are able to dedicate to overcome that loss. It is a vainglorious mission.

Walt Sonneville, a retired market-research analyst, is the author of My 22 Cents’ Worth: The Higher-Valued Opinion of a Senior Citizen and A Musing Moment: Meditative Essays on Life and Learning, books of personal-opinion essays, free of partisan and sectarian viewpoints. Contact him at waltsonneville@earthlink.net.

This Resource Directory recognizes advertisers who have made an extended commitment to your health and well-being.

Health & Medical Services Alzheimer’s Association (800) 272-3900 American Cancer Society (800) 227-2345 American Heart Association (610) 940-9540 Arthritis Foundation (215) 665-9200

Housing

Pharmacies

Eastwood Village Homes, LLC 102 Summers Drive, Lancaster (717) 397-3138

Physicians Housing Assistance Community Impact Legal Services (610) 380-7111 Housing Authority of Chester County (610) 436-9200

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (800) 232-4636 Coatesville VA Medical Center (610) 383-7711

CVS/pharmacy www.cvs.com

Housing Authority of Phoenixville (610) 933-8801 Legal Services

Gateway Medical Associates Locations in Coatesville, Downingtown, Lionville, and West Chester (610) 423-8181 Senior Centers Coatesville (610) 383-6900 Downingtown (610) 269-3939

Domestic Violence (800) 799-7233

Lawyer Referral Service (610) 429-1500

Great Valley (610) 889-2121

National Osteoporosis Foundation (800) 223-9994

Legal Aid of Southeastern PA (610) 436-4510

Kennett Square (610) 444-4819

PACE (800) 225-7223

Nutrition Meals on Wheels Chester County Inc. (610) 430-8500

Senior Healthlink (610) 431-1852 Social Security Administration (800) 772-1213 Southeastern PA Medical Institute (610) 446-0662 Hearing Services

Pennsylvania Hunger Action Center (800) 366-3997 Office of Aging Chester County Department of Aging Services (610) 344-6350

Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (800) 233-3008 V/TTY

Oxford (610) 932-5244 Phoenixville (610) 935-1515 Wayne (610) 688-6246 West Chester (610) 431-4242 Transportation Rover Community Transportation (484) 696-3854

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In World He says, “Actually, I felt no fear War II, 70 until the bullets began to tear years ago this through the fuselage of the C-47. month, on Then, with exploding ack-ack and June 6, 1944, burning planes, it was like the most some 156,000 awesome fireworks display you ever American, saw.”

By Colonel British, and Robert Wilcox Canadian soldiers landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified cost of France.

It was called D-Day, and the gigantic assault was the first step in the liberation of Europe from the hands of German troops. The world had never seen such a massive amphibious assault. And many military men from Central Pennsylvania were part of the American soldiers, hardened and ready, force that made it happen. This is lounge under full fighting equipment on how a few remember it: the deck of a Coast Guard assault.

Eston White says he will never forget how bad the weather was.

When you went over the side of the mother transport, the swells were so high that you could easily find yourself falling 4 feet as you let go of the cargo net to enter the landing craft that had been ready to step into a moment before.

He says, “I was one of 30 men aboard the Higgins boat that took us the 12,000 yards to the beach, and I was the only one who didn’t get violently sick aboard the pitching boat. Men were so sick they were heaving everywhere, and they were glad to see land even though they were being machine-gunned.”

Dick Winters was a paratrooper who was dropped at 1:15 a.m. on D-Day, 8 miles from the intended drop zone.

The C-47 plane carrying him, dodging heavy flak, dove so fast that, when he exited the plane, the wind tore away his jump pack with his rifle, grenades— everything but the trench knife The beachhead is secure, but the price was secured in his boot. high. A Coast Guard combat photographer Yet he and seven other men came upon this monument to a dead who joined him found their way American soldier somewhere on the shellto the causeway that our GIs blasted shore of Normandy. would use to get off Utah Beach.

Facing 55 Germans who manned four 105s lobbing shells at our The plan was to bail out at 800 troops, they were able to destroy all feet, but because of the evasion four guns and free our tanks to tactics of the plane, it was more like rumble from the beach.

300 feet.

Paul Miller was a paratrooper “You jumped, the parachute medic who headed for France in the deployed, and you were on the middle of the night. ground,” Miller says.

Paul Winters was in the first wave to hit Omaha Beach.

He says, “It was chaos. Very few of us were dropped off where we were supposed to be. We had to advance over open beach to a far sea wall that would give us some cover from the machine-gun fire and mortar and artillery shells being thrown at us. Everyone was just trying to stay alive.

“We were off the beach in five hours, but I didn’t realize how bad it really was until I went back the next day for medical supplies and saw all the bodies bobbing in the water and corpses everywhere on the beach, many of them stacked like cordwood.”

Richard Meck made the landing on Omaha Beach.

He says, “It was terrifying. We were being hit with shells and machine-gun fire constantly. Men were being killed all around me. Our orders were not to stop for anybody, just wade as fast as we could and get out of the water, cross the beach, and get to the sea wall, where the German guns couldn’t swivel down to kill you. Bodies were littering the beach and bobbing in the surf. It was a sight I’ve never been able to forget.”

Otis Harrison says, “The number of ships was simply unbelievable. It seemed like you could just walk from ship to ship, there were so many of them. LSTs loaded with troops were being blown up all around us.

“The Germans had placed ‘hedgehogs’ all along the approach to the beach. They were steel rails that would snare LSTs as the tide receded and leave them sitting ducks. Many men tried to jump off and wade in, only to be weighed down by all their gear and sink to their deaths. It was hell on earth.”

There are few such vets alive today, and every day there are fewer. We have only the memory of most of them. But what memories they are, and we can best honor them by never forgetting the sacrifices they made for our country, which they served so willingly and so well.

Photos courtesy of U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in World War II.

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The Beauty in Nature

Amphibians Pioneering Drier Land Clyde McMillan-Gamber old-blooded amphibians are active in summer’s warmth.

Some people enjoy hearing spring peepers peep and American toads trill in the shallows of ponds and wetlands during April and the twang of green frogs and bellow of bull frogs along pond edges. Meanwhile salamanders are active under stones in streams or under leaves and logs on woodland floors, depending on the species.

Amphibian means two lives: one in water and the other on land. But all amphibians need to be at least moist at all times to stay alive, and most spawn in water where their fish-like larvae hatch and develop legs and lungs for life on land, where they are all carnivores.

Some amphibians, including a few species in the Middle Atlantic States, developed features that allowed them to pioneer niches that are drier than their

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relatives can tolerate. Those pioneers also the day some distance from water, reduced competition for space and food retiring at times in moist, cool shade with their relatives by using niches those under fallen leaves or cracks in soil under cousins can’t. leafy crops.

Frogs’ skins need to be moist to allow Red-backed and slimy salamanders the frogs to live under exchange logs and rocks oxygen and on woodland carbon floors. These dioxide related, lungthrough their less species are skins. Frogs, 5 inches long therefore, live and exchange along water’s gases through edges. their damp American skins. Both toads and species American toad common secrete a toads have noxious bumpy skins that taste bad to predators substance from their skins that protect and retain body fluids. Toads travel over them from predators and keep their skins woodland floors and shaded fields during moist.

Red-backs have two color phases. One is gray all over and the other has a red stripe on top. The chunkier slimys are black with white speckling. Neither species spawns in water as most amphibians do.

Each female red-back and slimy hangs a cluster of four to 12 eggs under a log or rock, which are moist places on woodland floors. The youngsters’ aquatic stage is in their eggs. They hatch 1 inch long and resemble their parents.

Geographic isolation causes new species. Red-backed and slimy salamanders confined to wood lots surrounded by lawns, fields, and roads can’t travel to other woods. A genetic quirk in an individual in isolated woods will be passed to its relatives, perhaps creating a new species.

Nature is always changing. New species can appear any time.

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Assisted Living Residences/Personal Care Homes Bethany Village — MapleWood

Homewood at Plum Creek

325 Wesley Drive • Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 717-766-0279 • www.BethanyVillage.org

425 Westminster Avenue • Hanover, PA 17331 717-637-4166 • www.homewood.com

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 100 Assisted Living Residence: Yes Private: 100 Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 98 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: No Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: 1-bedroom suites; secured memory support neighborhood; skilled nursing – The Oaks.

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: No Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: Excellent care in a lovely environment. Call to schedule a visit.

Brandywine Senior Living at Longwood

Lakeview at Tel Hai Retirement Community

301 Victoria Gardens Drive • Kennett Square, PA 19348 484-734-6200 • www.brandycare.com

1200 Tel Hai Circle • Honey Brook, PA 19344 610-273-4602 • www.telhai.org

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 70 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: Yes Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 100 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: Yes Part/Totally Refundable: Yes Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

On-call Medical Service: No Health Fee-for-Service Available: No Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: At Brandywine Senior Living – life is beautiful!

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: Come discover a wonderful, faith-based community that has been voted No. 1 retirement community by readers of the Daily Local newspaper!

Colonial Lodge Community

Longwood Manor Personal Care & Memory Care

2015 North Reading Road • Denver, PA 17519 717-336-5501 • www.coloniallodgepa.com

2760 Maytown Road • Maytown, PA 17550 717-426-0033 • www.longwoodassisted.com

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 70 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: Yes* Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 144 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: Yes Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: No Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: No

Health Fee-for-Service Available: No Alzheimer’s Care: No Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: *SSI depends on availability. A veteran-approved “home for heroes” facility, all in a beautiful, rural setting.

Health Fee-for-Service Available: No Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: Beautiful, homelike environment nestled in the heartland of Lancaster County. Specializing in memory support.

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Mennonite Home Communities

1901 North Fifth Street • Harrisburg, PA 17102 717-221-7727 • www.homelandcenter.org

1520 Harrisburg Pike • Lancaster, PA 17601 717-393-1301 • www.mennonitehome.org

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 50 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: No Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: Yes Part/Totally Refundable: Yes Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 150 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: Yes Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: Yes Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Health Fee-for-Service Available: No Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: Exemplary care in a caring, beautiful environment has been provided for more than 140 years. Our continuum includes a hospice program.

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: Supportive, encouraging environment. Various room types and suites available. Secure memory care offered.

This is not an all-inclusive list of agencies and providers. These advertisers are eager to provide additional information about their services.

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Assisted Living Residences/Personal Care Homes Normandie Ridge Senior Living Community

St. Anne’s Retirement Community

1700 Normandie Drive • York, PA 17408 717-764-6262 • www.normandieridge.org

3952 Columbia Avenue West Hempfield Township, PA 17512 717-285-6112 • www.stannesrc.org

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 55 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: No Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: Private or shared living in spacious rooms with private baths.

Friendly staff assist where needed to help maintain your independence.

Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: No Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: Yes* Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: Minimal Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes* Respite Care: No Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Pending Approval Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: *SSI after three- to five-year private-pay spend-down. Skilled Alzheimer’s care coming soon.

Quarryville Presbyterian Retirement Community

VibraLife

625 Robert Fulton Highway • Quarryville, PA 17566 717-786-7321• 888-786-7331 • www.quarryville.com

707 Shepherdstown Road • Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 717-591-2100 • www.vibralife.net

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 45 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: No Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 46 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: Yes Part/Totally Refundable: Yes Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Health Fee-for-Service Available: No Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: No Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: Quarryville assists in maintaining independence and preserving dignity in a safe and secure environment.

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: Gorgeous new construction.

Short-term rehabilitation center and personal care apartments including secured memory care.

This is not an all-inclusive list of agencies and providers. These advertisers are eager to provide additional information about their services.

Social Security News

Faster Benefit Decisions for Veterans

By John Johnston his month I’d like to share some news about Social Security disability benefits for veterans with disabilities: a new expedited disability process.

We believe it is important to recognize those who currently serve in the military as well as those injured in the line of duty and consider it an honor and a duty to serve them. Whether the injury is physical or mental, getting a decision about Social Security disability benefits from your government shouldn’t add to the problems faced by the injured.

Carolyn W. Colvin, acting commissioner of Social Security, recently

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unveiled a new initiative to expedite disability applications from veterans with a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation rating of 100 percent permanent and total (P&T).

Under the new process, Social Security will treat these veterans’ applications as

high priority and issue expedited decisions, similar to the way we currently handle disability claims from wounded warriors.

“Our veterans have sacrificed so much for our country and it is only right that we ensure they have timely access to the disability

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benefits they may be eligible for and deserve,” said Colvin.

Learn more about the new expedited process for veterans at www.socialsecurity. gov/pressoffice/pr/2014/expedited-dibprocess2-pr.html.

Read about this new service at www.socialsecurity.gov/pgm/disabilitypt.htm.

Also, you’ll want to visit our Wounded Warriors page at www.socialsecurity.gov/woundedwarriors.

There you’ll find informative webinars, a Disability Planner, an overview of our disability programs and the convenient online disability application.

John Johnston is a Social Security public affairs specialist.

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Older But Not Wiser

Reading to Summer Sy Rosen ne of the great pleasures of my being a grandparent is reading to my 3-month-old granddaughter and watching her eyes close and open, fluttering, as she eventually goes to sleep.

It’s a wonderful experience—I’m bonding with my granddaughter. And if she doesn’t fall asleep and starts crying, I can always turn the chore over to my daughter and quickly leave the room.

My daughter, Ann, had a bunch of books to choose from.

My granddaughter, Summer, can’t really understand what I’m reading yet (even though I’m sure she’s a genius), but if the book interests me, I can do a better job of acting out the parts as I read.

The first series of books I tried were about characters named Mr. Know-It-All, Mr. Grumpy, and Mrs. Uppity. I’m sure it was well written, but I quickly became Mr. Bored.

I then started reading another book, a classic called The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

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It was definitely well written and informative, but by the third time I read it, I got the point—the caterpillar was very hungry.

The next time I went to Ann’s condo, I brought along an old book that I had read to her when she was about 10 years old. OK, Summer was only 3 months old, but, like I said, she’s a genius.

Actually, I was reading this book largely for my own enjoyment. It brought back memories of when I originally read it to Ann. The book is Beanpole, and it’s about a girl who was the tallest student in her junior high school.

I started reading and came to a section about Grandma Woo Woo. I remembered that about 20 years ago, I stopped reading and told Ann of a personal experience I had with someone nicknamed Woo Woo. I was a camp counselor and there was another counselor there, a very pompous 19-yearold named Warren.

Enjoying Life Every Day Sadie Weney recently celebrated her 100th birthday at the Phoenixville Area Senior Center.

Sadie has been coming to the senior center since 1985, usually four times a week! She loves to play Skippo with her lady friends and to spend time with her family.

Thursday is her day to have lunch with her grandson or other family members.

Sadie would tell everyone, “Live your life and forget your age.”

He was very proud that the young campers nicknamed him Uncle Woo Woo. He thought it showed everyone how popular he was. That is, until he heard one of the young campers say he

had to go make a woo woo.

I continued reading to Summer. I got caught up with all the troubles this tall girl had in school. Because of her height, please see READING page 11

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Savvy Senior

Men’s Health Resources Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, Any suggestions on how can I get my 55year-old husband to see a doctor? He’s got some personal health issues he needs to address, but he’s stubborn and embarrassed and keeps putting it off.

– Nagging Nancy Dear Nancy, When it comes to their health, many men take the John Wayne approach.

They tough it out! That’s one of the reasons men die more than five years younger than women.

Here are some facts and resources that may help you motivate your husband.

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What to Do Doctors say that by paying attention to just a few key areas like blood pressure, cholesterol, waist size, and sexual function (which can be an early indicator of heart disease), men can make dramatic improvements for their overall health.

If you’re having a difficult time getting your husband to see a doctor, try motivating him with relevant health information, including treatment options, along with the consequences of doing nothing.

The Web is a good place to start, with a growing number of user-friendly resources dedicated to men’s health issues. Here are some good ones to check:

WebMD: At men.webmd.com, you find a wide variety of information and videos on issues ranging from hair loss and plastic surgery for men to sex and intimacy.

It also provides information on diseases and conditions, an interactive symptom checker, discussion boards on exercise and fitness, and support groups on weight loss and prostate cancer.

Men’s Health Week is June 9–15

Mayo Clinic: Provides a special men’s health section (www.mayoclinic.com/health/ mens-health/MY00394) that offers information on prostate health, sexual health, and diseases, including a multimedia section.

MedlinePlus (www.nlm.nih.gov/med lineplus/menshealth.html): This comprehensive health site links users to men’s health resources from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, and other government and health-related organizations.

It provides easy-to-find information on hundreds of diseases and conditions, along with extensive information on

medications and links to thousands of clinical trials.

It also offers a senior-specific health site (nihseniorhealth.gov) that makes agerelated health information easy to get.

Prostate Cancer Foundation (www.prostatecancerfoundation.org): Provides comprehensive information on risk factors, detection and screening, diagnosis and treatment, questions to ask the doctor, and guidelines on how to live with the disease.

Men and Depression (www.menand depression.nimh.nih.gov): Part of the National Institute of Mental Health, this site offers personal stories from men suffering from depression as well as the signs and symptoms, treatment, and when and how to seek help.

FamilyDoctor.org (www.family doctor.org/men.xml): The American Academy of Family Physicians’ consumer-friendly site allows users to search by symptoms for possible diagnosis, suggestions for self-care, and when it might be necessary to see a doctor.

It also offers help finding a family doctor by zip code, a body mass index calculator, and sections on subjects ranging from prostate health to athlete’s foot.

Jim Miller is a regular contributor to the NBC Today show and author of The Savvy Senior Book. www.savvysenior.org

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The Facts In every stage of life—from infancy to the teen years to middle age—men (on average) are 40 percent more likely to get sick and die than women. (Current life expectancy for a man in the U.S. is 75.6 versus 80.8 for a woman.)

Why? The reasons are complex; however, most experts agree that biology, such as the different ways men and women react to stress, likely plays a role.

And men, taught since boyhood to be stoic in the face of pain, often are their own worst enemy, avoiding doctors and engaging in risky health behaviors like excessive alcohol consumption, unhealthy eating habits, reckless driving, and overexposure to sun, which all threaten health.

Men’s health issues also get less public attention and funding at a time when women’s health concerns (like breast

Mayo experts offer up guidance on issues ranging from male depression to the dangers of belly fat, along with screenings and self-assessment quizzes.

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Deal Me In

By Mark Pilarski

Prosperous Gaffes do Happen Dear Mark: I enjoy your column very much, mostly because you spent a lot of time on the inside. Here is my question. I was wondering if you have ever given away money to a player that did not deserve it. A dealer on a blackjack game once claimed it never happens, and yet, he overpaid me twice in two hours. I was wondering if you could share your thoughts on this.

– Ralph I. Have I, Ralph, ever given away money to a player who didn’t deserve it? Oh, gosh yes! I have made my fair share of blunders, once involving a $7,000 overpayment. Aided by the eye-in-thesky, the casino caught it and recouped their seven grand. Still, I received a nonpaid week on the streets. A few more bloopers to come below.

First off, dealers can and do make mistakes. Whoever told you otherwise is full of it. True, most dealers get quite skillful at reading the patterns on the cards with proficiency. So counting errors, with experience, become rare.

But these guys and gals deal more than a half million hands a year, so they will make unpremeditated errors over the course of that time, both on the players’ credit and debit sides of the ledger.

Casino management is supposed to be on the lookout for dealers making paying errors, and it is their responsibility to correct these transgressions. It is “their” job to monitor “their” pit and make sure that “their” dealers are following the right dealing protocols and paying off bets correctly, not yours.

So, Ralph, you got away with a couple

freebies. That’s fine. From a retired blackjack dealer’s perspective, I was always appreciative of the player who corrected my pay mistakes and handed back the money. I still play by those principled rules to this day.

Now, those two dillies I promised.

I taught myself blackjack by pitching cards into a hat, and practiced shuffling, dealing, and the pay and take on an ironing board. On my first shift, I made the dimwitted decision that if you split aces and got two face cards, you just got yourself two blackjacks, so I paid accordingly.

I was actually paying this unmerited royalty on split aces for most of my first shift until an old-time pit boss noticed my generosity and corrected me at the break. Some joints might have sent me packing, but perchance he thought that I had the potential to do the job a chimp could do.

The other error was where I wittingly over or underpaid a player.

Dealing 10-cent roulette in downtown Reno, we would get a lot of Chinese players via a charter bus service out of San Francisco who would jam up a game with chips as nothing you could ever imagine. As eight is the most prosperous of numbers in Chinese culture, it is considered a highly lucky number and is

worked into daily life as much as possible.

The roulette table was one such place, times 10. It was always mathematically interesting when a kazillion chips would appear on the eight from all the corners, split possibilities, and straight-up bets towering what seemed like a foot high.

This required drastic measures to avoid a possible mathematical misadventure, or my job, so I once called over a pit boss — actually it was a shift manager passing through the pit — and in order to not look too much like a sap, I asked what he thought a particular payoff was.

Pretending to know the correct payoff, he said, “Send out a dozen stacks, plus put a $5 chip and a 50-cent piece on the top.”

I paid the bet as instructed. Although a patented move by another, it’s not a bad “go-to” action when this frazzled dealer of 10 minds couldn’t figure out a ginormous payout. No harm, no foul, is what he figured; plus, we always seemed to get back all the chips in the end anyway.

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Salute to a Veteran

He Spent 2 Years in ‘the Most Detached Duty Station on the Face of the Earth’ Robert D. Wilcox hen Jack Shearer enlisted in the Navy in 1942, he had no idea his service would not be on the water at all, but on land … and in a land unlike any he had ever heard of before.

He got there despite something veterans commonly understood: Never volunteer for anything.

He was at Norfolk, Va., training for amphibious landings, when he saw a poster asking for volunteers for “prolonged and hazardous assignments” where the destination was unknown.

That sounded like a challenge he’d like.

So he volunteered.

He soon learned that the duty for which he had volunteered would take him to China, under conditions he couldn’t even imagine. He had trained six months at the Radio School in Bedford Springs, Pa. So, apparently, his

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Jack Shearer on the horse issued to him at his remote base in primitive China.

Radioman First Class John R. “Jack” Shearer, home from China in 1946.

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First, he was sent to San Pedro, Calif.

There he boarded a Liberty ship for a 10-week trip across the Pacific, with stops in Tasmania and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) before arriving at Calcutta, India, on New Year’s Eve. There he boarded a C-47 for a hazardous flight over “The Hump,” the plane climbing to 17,000 feet to clear the mountains. What was that like?

“Well,” he says, “it was plenty bumpy, and we had people using their ‘barf ’ bags left and right. I didn’t have one, and I came awfully close to needing it, but somehow I managed to get through it.”

When the plane landed in Chongqing, China, Shearer and 12 other men were assigned to an outpost camp bordering the Gobi Desert on one side and Inner Mongolia on the other, beyond the Great Wall of China and about 40 miles west of the Japanese force’s westernmost outpost.

Called Camp 4, it was one of a dozen camps in China that were among the best-kept secrets of the war. They were primarily weather stations created through a pact with China called SACO (Sino-American Cooperative Organization).

Camp 4 occupied a large, walled Catholic mission just outside the town of Shenpa (now Xamba) that was 800 miles north of Chongqing. The three residents of the mission, a priest and two nuns, had been moved to smaller quarters for the duration.

The camp was the northernmost of the SACO camps. Importantly, it was

400 miles north of Tokyo’s latitude and was an excellent site for gathering radio intelligence and monitoring the weather upwind from Japan and the Philippines.

Getting to the camp, however, would prove to be an experience. It took the men five entire months of travel by ancient Chinese trucks from headquarters in Chongqing, 1,500 miles to the south. The rickety Chinese trucks were constantly breaking down.

“And,” Shearer says, “I often wondered if we would ever make it to our camp.”

How did everything work out, once you were there?

“It really didn’t,” Shearer laughs.

“The temperature went from more than 100 F in the summer to minus 30 F in the winter. Sandstorms were common, and there was no running water. We got our water from a well and had to boil it to make it potable.

“Our generators soon were beyond repair, and all of us took turns cranking the small hand generator to send our seven daily radio contacts with radio Chongqing and one with Peking (now Beijing). We provided weather information that was relayed to U.S. ships in the Pacific. That information was important to their planning assaults on Japan and the parts of China occupied by the Japanese.”

How was the food?

“We lived off the land,” he says. “We could buy chicken, eggs, and ‘yellow rice’ locally. But you ate the vegetables at your own peril. The locals fertilized with human waste, and eating the vegetables they grew produced lots of diarrhea.

“The worst problem, though, was the bugs. They were everywhere. There were cockroaches in our hair, lice in our clothes, and bedbugs in our bedding.

There was no way to get rid of them … they were always with us. That was true for the whole two years I was there.”

Was there anything to see?

“Nope … nothing. There were some small villages, and we each had a horse.

But, when you got there, it was just a scattering of huts with nothing to do or see. So there was really no point in going.”

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like an eternity, but it finally passed.

Shearer says one thing of interest about the grim two years was that suffering through it with him was a medical doctor named Henry Heimlich, who later won national acclaim for developing the Heimlich maneuver that saves people who are choking on food lodged in their windpipe.

Did the Chinese food help him develop the maneuver?

“It might well have,” Shearer agrees, with a grin.

When the war in the Pacific ended in August 1945, everybody but Shearer left.

He stayed behind to finalize details with the local Chinese officials for deactivating the camp. He then traveled

to Shanghai to catch a ship to San Francisco, where he mustered out as a radioman first class after serving 42 months in the Navy.

In 1994, the Republic of China, in Taiwan, gave him and his wife, June, an all-expense-paid, 10-day tour to Taiwan in recognition of his wartime service to China.

At age 92, he now lives in Central Pennsylvania. And he says he will never forget the endless days he spent deep in primitive China in the “Rice Paddy Navy.”

Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in World War II.

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Bob’s Balancing is No Act Saralee Perel

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hen my husband, Bob, is unhappy, it breaks my heart.

So I did what most conventional, predictable people do. I took him to a Quantum Field Healing séance—oops, I mean session—to have his energy fields balanced. Doesn’t everybody do that?

I called my friend, nationally noted healer Marcia Sloane Heusted. She knew I was clueless about cockamamie—I mean alternative—therapies.

The night before the appointment, I dreamed we crept into Marcia’s dark, crypt-like dungeon. Walls were flanked by spider webs hanging like thick, wet ropes. Tall, black candles oozed hot, blood-red liquid. There was the smell of century-old monk robes and century-old monks.

Bob woke me. He doesn’t sleep well when I scream.

“Cancel it, Bob. Marcia will levitate you and make you speak in tongues—in Yiddish!”

“Saralee, I’m not canceling.”

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“You’ll be Bob stretched out channeling a Jewish on her table. In Dorothy. You’ll gentle flowing chant, ‘Latkes and motions, she moved blintzes and borscht. her hands above his Oy vey!’” body, stopping at That next day, we times. I never asked met with Marcia. what she was doing.

Her room was I’ve known Marcia brilliantly lit with for 20 years. We trust sunlight. She was each other radiant and unconditionally. welcoming, like my At the end, Bob favorite counselor at slowly sat up. He summer camp. She kept his eyes closed, offered us tea. feeling a new “Don’t drink that sensation of peace.

Marcia and Bob potion, Bob,” I He said to Marcia, whispered. “You’ll “When you look at die.” me, you see a different person than Having no knowledge of Bob, much anyone else does. I feel more content less his depression of late, she asked him than I have in years.” He cried when he no questions. said, “Something has changed.”

I don’t know why I shielded myself I felt an astonishing realization: A farfrom faith. When Marcia spoke of reaching healing had occurred. trusting the universe, I remained distant.

And so, Bob is no longer burdened

Saralee Perel is an award-winning, nationally syndicated columnist. Her new book is Cracked Nuts & Sentimental Journeys: Stories From a Life Out of Balance. To find out more, visit www.saraleeperel.com or email sperel@saraleeperel.com.

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The 50plus EXPO is just around the corner, so mark your calendar today to attend. For more information or details, please visit www.50plusexpopa.com. We’ll see you there!

with heavy sadness. Did the experience change him? Yes. How? I don’t know.

Does that matter?

I believe that Marcia is an intuitive, a word she says with shyness. She has a gift I do not understand. But I saw a change.

No doubt about it.

In that, I have complete faith.

For months, Bob had stopped doing the things he enjoyed. He lost interest in gardening, cooking, and taking photos of our pets. Although he’s won 14 blue ribbons at the county fair, he stopped baking.

But today the zinnias are displaying their colors. My email is full of new pictures of our dog and cats.

And this morning I awoke to the heavenly aroma of homemade zucchini bread.

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and fun it really is!

Nowadays, anyone can be a target, but it seems the 50+ crowd is at the top of many a criminal’s mind. The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General’s “Senior Crime Prevention University” will educate seniors on how to protect themselves against fraud and financial exploitation. This is a very important topic you won’t want to miss!

Just in time for the summer, Janet Paterson and Helen Mastony, Chester County Master Gardeners, will demonstrate how to create the ultimate container garden — whether using flowers, herbs, or vegetables. You could even be the lucky person who will take home Janet and Helen’s creations to enjoy throughout the summer!

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