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Fifties Flashback

It’s a Mad World After All Randal C. Hill

In Lewis Carroll’s 1865 classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice remarks to the Cheshire Cat, “I don’t want to go among mad people.”

The grinning cat responds, “Oh, you can’t help that. We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”

“How do you know I’m mad?” asks Alice.

“You must be,” explains the cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

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If something affected the national psyche, Mad magazine wanted to poke fun at it.

Impressionable adolescents who read Mad were warned constantly about society’s half-truths, double standards, fine print, deceptive advertisements, and sneaky product

placements. in the culture.”

Everyone The world is out and everything to get you, implied the messages, so be were fair game. prepared.

Superman. The Along the way, Ku Klux Klan.

Mad’s clever and Wonder Woman.

The Hell’s invaluable lessons undoubtedly Angels. Howdy helped avid readers Doody. Barbie develop their and Ken. All critical-thinking suffered the sting of Mad’s gleeful skills.

“If you were barbs, as did growing up lonely highly respected Cover of first Mad magazine, 1955. and isolated in a politicians and established world leaders. small town, Mad was a revelation,” Top-flight Mad caricaturists said counterculture cartoonist R. Crumb. “Nothing I read anywhere brought easily recognizable popelse suggested there was any absurdity culture celebrities to its pages, and

recurring cartoon columns, such as the triangle-headed Spy vs. Spy characters, kept young readers amused — and on their toes — during the oppressive Cold War of the 1950s.

Mad first appeared as a 1952 horror comic book that was a satire on (of all things) other horror comic books.

New York funsters and comic-book veterans William Gaines and Harvey Kurtzman were Mad’s publisher and editor, respectively, and what their eight-times-a-year periodical brought to the nation’s teenagers eventually morphed into a bible of juvenileappearing blasphemy that took delight in flagrantly casting a wide satirical net and laughing at just about every rock-solid institution in America. please see MAD page 9

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Health Matters

What’s Next When the Kids Leave the Nest?

Lisa M. Petsche

When the last of your offspring has left home, the adjustment can be difficult.

This may be particularly so if you have focused the majority of your time and energy on raising your children or if you’re a single parent and now find yourself alone.

Feelings of emptiness may be profound and challenging to overcome.

If you find yourself in this situation, here are some suggestions that can help.

Be Kind to Yourself Recognize that it will take time to adjust to this new phase of life. Try not to dwell on the past, as it will keep you from moving forward.

Prepare a list of things to do when you find yourself feeling lost or blue. Include small indulgences to give you a lift as well as tasks or projects that will give you a sense of satisfaction (decluttering your home, for example).

Look after your health. Eat nutritious meals, get adequate rest, and exercise regularly. This is a good time to take that Pilates class or join a gym. In addition to safeguarding your physical health, these measures will also help

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ward off depression.

Keep a positive attitude about life and aging, and associate with people who have a similar outlook.

Nurture Your Spirit Write down your thoughts, feelings, and experiences, chronicling your journey of selfdiscovery and growth.

Do things that center you and bring inner peace, such as meditating, listening to music, or spending time in nature.

Engage in activities that provide you with meaning and purpose, such as writing a family history, getting a pet, or helping an ill or elderly neighbor.

Busy Yourself Think back to former hobbies or practices that fell away once you had a family, and revive one that still holds appeal.

Take up something new — for example, gourmet cooking, sculpting, or modern jazz.

Get involved in your community. Volunteer for a neighborhood association, charitable or environmental cause, animal shelter, or political campaign. Along the way you might make new friends. If you miss being around young people, volunteer at a local school or community center.

Cultivate some solitary pastimes. Learn to enjoy your own company.

If you have been out of the workforce while raising your family, look for a job.

Return to school for a certificate or diploma, or perhaps even a degree.

Or just take some courses here and there for personal interest. Check out the offerings from the local school board’s adult education center as well as postsecondary institutions. Don’t forget the option of distance education.

If you are married, go on regular dates with your spouse. Get creative, trying new activities and types of food, or revisit activities from your courting years.

Take turns doing the planning. This is a good chance to step up the intimacy and generate some romance and excitement.

Plan some trips with your spouse or friends, or perhaps on your own or with a tour group, depending on your situation and preferences.

Reach Out Keep in touch with your offspring through modern technology. Learn to become comfortable with the communication methods they favor, such as texting and Skyping. Just don’t overdo it.

Take the initiative in calling friends and relatives to catch up. Instead of waiting for invitations, extend them.

If you don’t feel you’re adjusting well to your new circumstances, seek support from a counselor.

Whether or not you anticipated being an empty nester at this point in your life, the reality may initially seem unsettling. But with time, patience, and trust in your resilience, you will successfully adapt and find yourself growing and enjoying life in ways you never imagined.

Lisa M. Petsche is a social worker and a freelance writer specializing in boomer and senior health and wellness.

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RSVP of the Capital Region (Retired & Senior Volunteer Program) wishes to thank our many senior volunteers who participated in volunteer service in 2018, making their communities stronger. RSVP serves: Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, and York counties.

Rita Christ Julia Citsay Lyn Clark Linda Clark Arlene Clause Terrie Cofield Sandy Collins Zola Colston Victor Commisso Gerry Cook Mary Corum Donna Crouse Yolanda Espinar Cruz Betty J. L. Curtis David Cvijic Carole Daniels Greg Darr Charlene Davis Shirley Davis Jan Davis Sharon Davis Elsie Davis Linda DeLuca Eileen Derr Pat DiCello Rosemary Diggs William Dippery Shirley Disend Stephen Ditzler Chris Dunlap Deborah Dunn Dorothy Dutchess Mark Dutchess Geri Edwards Annette Edwards Earl Edwards Kathleen Edwards Hilda Elliot Thomas Embich Kathy Engle Glen Engle Jay Epler Carol Erb Kenneth Eshenour Teresa Esterline Nancy Evans Charles Evans Scott Fagan Marlin Fawber Sue Filer Robert Fisher Kathy Flory Harold Fox Alice Fox Alice Freeman Jane Freet James Frentz Rita Fruhwirth Michael Fuller

Robert Galluppi Rita Gardner Dennis Garloff Kevin Garthwaite George Gauker Paul Gawrys, Jr. Nancy Gilbert Deborah Ginder Jeannetta Ginnetto Nicholas Ginnetto Janet Glatfelter Warren Godshall Charles Golden Robert Goonan Joanne Grant Annie Grant Pam Gray Kiki Greka Carol Grierson Ken Gross Amelia Gross Margie Groy Fran Hahm Barbara Jean Haines Ann Hale Bess Handy Ronald Harbin Cheryl Harmon Susan Harris David Harris Dee Harry Donna Hassenfritz William Hassenfritz, Jr. Raymond Hazzard Walter Heisey Nancy Hemler Martha Hernandez Mildred Hernandez Dorothy Hershour Carolyn Hickerson Douglas Hickey Nancy High Henry Hill John Hill Brenda Hinds Rachel Hlaraty Ted Hoffman John Hoke Marilyn Hollis Carol Hook Cheryl Hoover Rachel Hora Marion Houtz Judith Hummel Scarlett Jackson Valerie Jefferson Shirley Johns Gary Johnson

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Melinda’s Garden

Growing Your Own Cut Flowers Melinda Myers

Keep your flower vases filled all summer long with beautiful blossoms picked right from your own garden and containers.

Growing seeds, plants, and tender bulbs that can double as cut flowers makes it easy to create casual, fresh-cut bouquets for your dinner table, guest room, or to share with family and friends.

For early spring flowers, look to spring-blooming bulbs like tulips and daffodils and cool-weather annuals like pansies and snapdragons. Clipping branches from trees and shrubs such as forsythia, quince, and daphne is another good way to bring spring into your home.

Your perennial garden can provide bleeding heart, iris, hellebores, peonies, and much more.

If the selection in your own spring garden is limited, strike up a trade with a friend. Pick some of theirs in the spring and share some of yours in the summer. Then make a note to add more springblooming bulbs and perennials to your landscape.

Gladiolas and dahlias add pizazz to summer and

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fall bouquets. These spring-planted bulbs Photo credit Longfield Gardens combine nicely with For easy bouquets, other summer flowers, plant a color-themed and they continue to blend such as the bloom well after other Sugar Plum Mix from flowers have faded in the Longfield Gardens. heat of late summer.

The flower-packed spikes of gladiolas are available in a rainbow of colors that will inspire your creativity. These inexpensive bulbs are easy to plant and take up very little space.

Pop them into containers, flowerbeds, or even your vegetable garden. Start planting in mid-spring and continue every two weeks until midsummer for months of colorful flower spikes.

With dahlias, you can choose from dozens of different flower sizes, styles, and colors. For easy, eye-catching bouquets, plant a color-themed blend. Another option is to select colors that will harmonize with flowers that are already in your gardens, such as phlox, sunflowers, asters, and lilies.

Hybrid lilies are perennial garden favorites as well as fabulous cut flowers.

Plant the bulbs of Asiatic lilies, Oriental lilies, and Oriental-trumpet lilies in spring for color and fragrance that lasts all summer long. To ensure months of flowers, be sure to plant a few bulbs of each type of lily.

Annuals play an essential role in any cut-flower garden. Extend your budget by starting zinnias, sunflowers, larkspur, and cosmos from seed, and supplement with greenhouse-grown transplants of snapdragons, celosia, amaranth, and statice.

Foliage can elevate an ordinary homegrown bouquet from good to great, and your garden can provide all sorts of interesting options. Incorporate the leaves of perennials such as hosta, baptisia, artemesia, and sage as well as flower farmer favorites such as bells of Ireland, bupleurum, and dusty miller.

Shrubs such as ninebark, boxwood, viburnum, and holly are another source of attractive foliage and some offer colorful berries as well.

Cutting and arranging flowers is a fun way to exercise your creativity and bring the beauty of your garden indoors. The more you do it, the easier it gets, and you’ll soon be sharing your flowers with friends, neighbors, family, coworkers, and everyone who stops by.

Melinda Myers has written more than 20 gardening books, including Small Space Gardening. She hosts The Great Courses’ How to Grow Anything DVD series and the nationally syndicated Melinda’s Garden Moment TV and radio program. www. melindamyers.com, www.longfield-gardens.com

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a cardiac arrest but suffered massive brain damage and was in a coma. Eventually she was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state.

Thinking about potential medical issues and The case pitted her husband, who wanted the end-of-life care can be a bit daunting, but it’s feeding tube removed, against her parents, who important. There are legal documents, such as an argued that she was conscious. The legal challenges advance healthcare directive, in which one can involved Florida courts, the state’s legislature, specify one’s preferences. then-Gov. Jeb Bush, the U.S. Congress, President “It’s not just for older people; it’s important for all of us no matter what the age to have an advance George W. Bush, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the event of death, the document also directive. In my view, it’s part of estate planning, includes preferences regarding organ donation. just like a financial power of attorney and a will,” If donation is chosen, limitations about specific explains David Mills, Esq., Blakey, Yost, Bupp & organs and tissues and uses for them may be Rausch LLP, York. included. It also addresses palliative or He says that an advance healthcare comfort care. directive includes both a living will It’s not Mills says that some preferences and a healthcare power of attorney, just for older may be affected by religious beliefs. or POA. This comprehensive legal He notes that there is a form for those document provides the medical people; it’s of the Catholic faith that allows the community with a clear path for important person to state his or her wishes in treatment. for all of us many areas but indicates that the When a patient is admitted for no matter healthcare agent is to presume in favor hospital care, asking if he or she has of providing nutrition and hydration, an advance medical directive is as what the including medically assisted nutrition much a part of the admissions process age to have and hydration if they are capable of as providing information about an advance sustaining the person’s life. healthcare insurance. directive.

“The decisions in the living will are A living will specifies treatments all very personal decisions — there’s no that one may want or not want to right or wrong,” Mills says. sustain life when in an end-stage Similar to a financial power of attorney, in medical condition or in a state of permanent which one appoints someone as their “agent” to act unconsciousness. Treatments include dialysis, on their behalf in financial matters, the healthcare mechanical ventilation, surgery, antibiotics, power of attorney appoints someone to act on their chemotherapy, and radiation treatment. behalf with regard to health and personal care “This makes your wishes known in the event decisions. that you’re in the hospital and are in a coma,” It is invoked if the person can no longer stressed Mills. “The importance of having a living will was demonstrated by the Karen Ann Quinlan speak for himself or herself. It’s used not only at end of life, but also in the event that someone case.” is unconscious or in a coma. The form allows Quinlan was a New Jersey woman who, in the someone to appoint both a healthcare agent and an mid-’70s, mixed an anti-anxiety medication with alternate. alcohol while on a crash diet and lapsed into a Mills says that a living will not only specifies coma and then a persistent vegetative state. one’s wishes for treatment, but it also directs After doctors refused her parents’ request to the agent to act either solely in accordance with disconnect her respirator — which her parents the preferences as set forth in the living will or considered an extraordinary means of prolonging to use the preferences as guidance, allowing the her life and contended that it caused her pain — healthcare agent to make the final decision. they filed suit to have the apparatus removed.

He encourages people to review the living will A legal battle ensued and eventually the and their preferences with both the healthcare respirator was removed. The family consented to a agent(s) they have chosen and family members. He feeding tube, and she eventually died in 1985. also said that like a will, it’s a document that can Another clause in the living will focuses on using a feeding tube to supply food and hydration. be changed as one’s preferences change.

Another document some may consider is a Mills says that this clause is often called the Terri POLST (Pennsylvania Orders for Life-Sustaining Schiavo clause — named after the landmark endTreatment) form, which is intended to give of-life care case of the 1990s.

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includes a directive for resuscitation or non-resuscitation if the individual has no pulse and is not breathing.

If the patient has a pulse and/or is breathing, the form indicates if he or she wishes to have comfort measures only; limited interventions, such as cardiac monitor and IV fluids; or full treatment.

There are also sections to indicate the patient’s preferences regarding antibiotics and artificially administered hydration and/or nutrition.

This form is usually completed by individuals with chronic progressive illness and/or frailty or by anyone of an advanced age that feels strongly about designating their goals and preferences for care, said Regina Cabezas, social worker for Landis Homes in Lititz.

“POLST is a voluntary form for individuals throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” Cabezas said, “and even though it is highly recommended, completion of the form is not required for admission to post-acute care areas or retirement communities, such as Landis Homes.”

At the time it’s completed, any existing advance healthcare directive should

be reviewed. The POLST also includes contact information for the healthcare professional preparing it and the individual’s designated emergency contact or healthcare POA. “I often say that having the POLST takes things ‘up a notch,’ as it moves from the wishes that someone expresses to becoming orders that must be followed,” Cabezas said.

Cabezas stressed that the advance-care planning process “should not be a two-minute task” but instead an honest, thoughtful conversation amongst all involved parties.

“This may make for some difficult and uncomfortable dialogue between the resident and family members, but ultimately it is the individual’s choice and one that ideally their healthcare power of attorney will follow in what can be a very emotionally charged crisis situation,” Cabezas said.

The key element with all of the documents is to ensure that an individual’s wishes for medical treatment measures — in the event they’re in a coma or facing end of life and cannot speak for themselves — are met.

How to Make Philanthropy Fit into Your Financial Plans

By John Hagensen One of the universal truths is that, while money can help meet your needs and provide you with the basic necessities of life, it can’t make you happy.

However, it can be a powerful weapon of selfsatisfaction when used the right way — such as through philanthropic endeavors.

“Money can be an incredible tool when you align it with your values,” says John Hagensen, founder and managing director of Keystone Wealth Partners.

“It enables you to feel a sense of contentment that your money is working hard for you to help you accomplish goals that match your values.”

And if you value giving back to others — to your community, to your favorite cause, or to planet Earth — then money will enable you to accomplish that goal.

But as you look at your budget for 2019, you may not know where the money will come from to give to your favorite charity or cause.

The answer is that it is probably sitting right underneath your nose, Hagensen says. But it will take discipline to find it.

Hagensen practices what he preaches; his company has made a commitment to donate up to $10,000 to help create clean-water projects in Africa. That aligns with his values because he adopted two children from Ethiopia and wanted to give something back to their native homeland.

Hagensen has three tips for those who want to give to their favorite charities in 2019 but aren’t sure where the money will come from:

Write down your values. Spend a few minutes to really examine what is important to you. Make sure all your monetary decisions support your values.

If you have older children or grandchildren, include them in the discussion so you can create a teachable moment for them.

Write down your long-term and short-term goals.

Compare those goals to how you are spending your money.

Spend intentionally. If you value traveling, then cut down your expenses at home so you can travel more. Align your expenses with what you value in life and your wants and needs.

Cut out all of the expenses that don’t align with your values. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to what is important to people.

Most people think that a house is a necessity, but some people would rather live in a tent and travel all the time than own a home. It just depends on what you value, so make the most of your money.

“It usually does not take a major financial overhaul to give more to philanthropic causes,” Hagensen says. “It just takes a consistent approach that aligns with your values.”

John Hagensen is the founder and managing director of Keystone Wealth Partners (www.keystonewealthpartners.com) in Chandler, Ariz. He holds the financial designations of CFS, CAS, CIS, CTS, and CES. Hagensen is passionate about coaching his clients to remain disciplined and committed to a long-term financial strategy.

MAD from page 3 In 1954, Kurtzman adopted a forgotten and unnamed advertising image for Mad that had been around since the 1890s. He dubbed him Alfred E. Neuman, and Neuman rose to fame as a grinning, jug-eared, gap-toothed simpleton whose motto was “What, me worry?”

As the Mad mascot, he came to symbolize everything vacuous about the publication. Neuman’s iconic portrait often replaced the faces of celebrities who were being lampooned in that particular issue.

For a while, Neuman had a lady companion, a cartoon character named Moxie Cowznofski. But Moxie made only a few appearances in the late 1950s, possibly because she looked too much like her “significant other.”

Mad kept the chuckles coming as it created a series of nonsensical words, www.50plusLifePA.com

such as furshlugginer (an adjective expressing contempt), blecch (a term synonymous with disgust), and potrzebie (a word with no meaning or definition whatsoever).

Unique in its controversial social satire, Mad would eventually influence such pop-cultural icons as National Lampoon, The Simpsons, and Saturday Night Live.

When the fun-loving William Gaines died at age 70 in June 1992, the New York Daily News headlined his obituary “What, Me Dead?”

Although Randal C. Hill’s heart lives in the past, the rest of him resides in Bandon, Ore. He can be reached at wryterhill@msn.com.

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Nursing & Rehabilitation Centers The listings with a shaded background have additional information about their center in a display advertisement in this edition.

Bethany Village – The Oaks

325 Wesley Drive • Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 (717) 766-0279 • www.bethanyvillage.org Number of Beds: 69 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes 24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes Scheduled Entertainment: Yes

Private Rooms Available: Yes Semi-Private Rooms Available: Yes Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes Accreditations/Affiliations: CARF; Eagle, LeadingAge PA Comments: Maplewood Assisted Living also available.

Conestoga View

900 East King Street • Lancaster, PA 17602 (717) 299-7850 • www.conestogaviewnursing.com Number of Beds: 436 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Respiratory, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes

24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes Scheduled Entertainment: Yes Private Rooms Available: Yes Semi-Private Rooms Available: Yes Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes

Homestead Village

1800 Village Circle • Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) 397-4831 • www.homesteadvillage.org Number of Beds: 60 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Short-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: No 24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes

Scheduled Entertainment: Yes Private Rooms Available: Yes Semi-Private Rooms Available: Yes Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes Comments: CARF-CCAC accredited, five-star rating. Small-care households make our community very attractive.

Convenient location and quality care.

Pleasant View Communities

544 North Pennryn Road • Manheim, PA 17545 (717) 665-2445 • www.pleasantviewrc.org Number of Beds: 133 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Short-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes 24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes

Scheduled Entertainment: Yes Private Rooms Available: Yes Semi-Private Rooms Available: No Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes Comments: Delivering compassionate care that encompasses physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs since 1955.

Claremont Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 1000 Claremont Road • Carlisle, PA 17013 (717) 243-2031 • www.ccpa.net/cnrc Number of Beds: 282 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes 24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes Scheduled Entertainment: Yes

Private Rooms Available: No Semi-Private Rooms Available: Yes Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes Comments: Featuring Transitions at Claremont, a dedicated, 39-bed, shortterm rehab unit. Claremont provides quality skilled nursing and secured dementia care.

Homeland Center

1901 North Fifth Street • Harrisburg, PA 17102-1598 (717) 221-7902 • www.homelandcenter.org Number of Beds: 95 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Short-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes 24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes Scheduled Entertainment: Yes

Private Rooms Available: Yes Semi-Private Rooms Available: Yes Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes Accreditations/Affiliations: AAHSA, LeadingAge PA (PANPHA), NHPCO, PHN, HPNA Comments: A beautiful, full-service continuing care retirement community with a history of more than 150 years of exemplary care.

Mennonite Home Communities

1520 Harrisburg Pike • Lancaster, PA 17601 (717) 393-1301 • www.mennonitehome.org Number of Beds: 188 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes 24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes Scheduled Entertainment: Yes

Private Rooms Available: Yes Semi-Private Rooms Available: Yes Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes Accreditations/Affiliations: Equal Housing, LeadingAge PA Comments: Person-centered care with reputation for compassion and excellence. Established in 1903. Respite care available w/minimum stay.

Transitions Healthcare – Gettysburg

595 Biglerville Road • Gettysburg, PA 17325 (717) 334-6249 • www.transitionshealthcarellc.com Number of Beds: 135 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Respiratory, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes 24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes

Scheduled Entertainment: Yes Private Rooms Available: Yes Semi-Private Rooms Available: Yes Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes Accreditations/Affiliations: PHCA, PACA Comments: Fully staffed Transitions Healthcare employees in skilled nursing and sub-acute rehab. Tours are encouraged!

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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We are looking forward to seeing you at the 20th annual Dauphin County 50plus EXPO. Each month, you enjoy the information that is included in 50plus LIFE, and the EXPO is a great complement to that.

There are returning exhibitors as well as new ones. Your lives change from year to year, and what may not have been of interest to you last year may be of more importance to you this year.

Representatives from a wide array of businesses are looking forward to speaking with you about issues that are on your mind, whether that is caregiving, health, home improvements, finances, leisure, travel, fitness, nutrition, or something else.

Our 50plus EXPOs are effective forums for all those “hidden” community resources to gather in visible, easy-to-access locations!

For your enjoyment, entertainment and demonstrations have been scheduled throughout the day, including seminars on nutrition, treatments for shoulder pain, and preventing senior scams; a performance by a musical impressionist; and a presentation by the Dauphin County coroner on his work and his inclusion in the Investigation Discovery show The Coroner.

OLP Events and the Dauphin County Area Agency on Aging are happy to be able to present this dynamic, one-day event to our visitors free of charge.

You could spend a couple of hours at the EXPO while you talk with the exhibitors and have a few precautionary screenings done. If time doesn’t permit, make a shorter visit. Either way, we’d love to have you come.

This day is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors. Please stop by their booths, have your bingo card signed, and talk with them about how they can assist you.

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Registration is a breeze!

Simply bring this completed form with you to the EXPO, drop it at the registration desk and you are ready to go!

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Co-Hosts – OLP Events, Dauphin County Area Agency on Aging Principal Sponsors – 50plus LIFE, BusinessWoman, and Homeland Center & Homeland at Home Visitor Bag Sponsor – UPMC Pinnacle

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Seminar Sponsors – Madden Physical Therapy, TrimLine Weight Loss Supporting Sponsors – A llwell from PA Health & Wellness; Dr. Kostow Wellness & Weight Loss; Orthopedic Institute of PA; Ricker Sweigart & Associates

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Media Sponsors – Holy Family Radio, WHTM abc27

Wheelchairs will be available at the front desk courtesy of On-Line Publishers, Inc.

See you at the EXPO!

Donna K. Anderson, EXPO 2019 Chairperson

Just A Tip!

Park ‘n’ Ride:

To make registering for door prizes an easy task – bring along your extra return address labels.

Shuttles to the exhibit hall and back to your parking area will be provided by Homeland at Home. Please, hop aboard.

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Directions To Hershey Lodge: 325 University Drive, Hershey, PA FROM NORTH Take I-83 South/US-322 East toward Hershey. Take exit 47 for US-322 East toward Paxton Street/Hershey. Continue straight onto Eisenhower Boulevard.

Take the US-322 East ramp to Hershey. Keep left at the fork to merge onto Paxton Street/US-322. Take the ramp to Hersheypark Drive/39 West. Merge onto and continue to follow Hersheypark Drive.

FROM SOUTH Take I-83 North to exit 46B for 322 East toward Hershey. Merge onto Paxton Street/US-322. Take the ramp and merge onto to Hersheypark Drive/39 West.

Continue to follow Hersheypark Drive.

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FROM EAST Take the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-76) West to exit 266. Turn left onto 72 North. Follow 72 North to 322 West. Take 322 West to Hershey (approximately 12 miles). Follow 322 West to the traffic light at University Drive. Turn right on University Drive. Take the first left into the entrance to Hershey Lodge.

FROM WEST Follow the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-76) East to exit 247. Take I-283 North to exit 3C and follow 322 East toward Hershey. 322 East becomes 422 East. At the traffic light, turn right onto University Drive. Take the first right into the entrance to Hershey Lodge.

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Health Screenings AFFA — Booth #191 No-cost genetic cancer screening for ages 65–85 with approved insurances Central Penn College — Booth #195 Blood pressure GenRx Testing Solutions, LLC — Booth #184 Hereditary cancer screening for Medicare beneficiaries Madden Physical Therapy — Booth #181 Lower back pain and sciatica screening

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50plus LIFE It’s not an age. It’s an attitude.

50plus LIFE (formerly 50plus Senior News) reflects the lifestyles and attitudes of today’s boomer-and-beyond generations.

On-Line Publishers, Inc. (OLP) was founded 20 years ago with a mission in mind: to enhance the lives of individuals within the Central Pennsylvania community. Over the years, 50plus LIFE has grown to six unique editions in Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, and York counties.

Central Pennsylvania’s adults over 50 are a dynamic and inspiring population who refuse to slow down and who stay deeply involved in their careers, communities, and family lives, and 50plus LIFE strives to reflect that in its editorial content.

Pick up a free copy of 50plus LIFE for articles that will amuse you, inspire you, inform you, and update you on topics relevant to your life.

Be sure to check out 50plus LIFE’s website (www.50plusLIFEpa.com), featuring editorial and photo content and offering you, its readers, a chance to offer your thoughts and commentary on the articles that reach you each month.

And you can even find 50plus LIFE on Facebook (www.facebook. com/50plusLIFEpa)!

The advertisers in 50plus LIFE offer goods or services to foster a happy, healthy life. They are interested in increasing your quality of life, so please call them when considering a purchase or when you are in need of a service.

Let us know what you think of 50plus LIFE! Connect with us on our website, on Facebook, by emailing info@onlinepub. com, or by calling (717) 285-1350.

Mark your calendars!

Together, we will help you reach and maintain your weight loss goal. Call us today! 717.533.2100

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Thank you, sponsors!

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Proudly Sponsored By: Principal Sponsors:

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Supporting Sponsors:

UPMC Pinnacle

Madden Physical Therapy TrimLine Weight Loss

Allwell from PA Health & Wellness Dr. Kostow Wellness & Weight Loss Orthopedic Institute of PA Ricker Sweigart & Associates

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Silver Circle: Stroke — Preventing Disability Presenters: Ahna Fulmer, MSN, ACNP-AG, FNP-BC, CEN, and Raechel Hiatt, BSN, RN, Clinical Stroke Coordinator UPMC Lititz — Multipurpose Room 1500 Highlands Drive | 11:30 a.m.

Silver Circle: Healthy Aging for Women

Presenter: Danielle Hazard, MD, OBGYN of Lancaster Lebanon Valley Advanced Care Center Community Room | 1251 E. Main St., Annville 1 p.m.

Stroke — Preventing Disability

Presenters: Ahna Fulmer, MSN, ACNP-AG, FNP-BC, CEN, Raechel Hiatt, BSN, RN, Clinical Stroke Coordinator St. Anne’s Retirement Community 3952 Columbia Ave., Columbia, West Hempfield Twp. | 10 a.m.

Oh, My Aching Back!

Presenters: Andy Wagenheim, PA-C, Spine, Bone, and Joint Center, and staff from Select Physical Therapy Lebanon Valley Advanced Care Center Community Room | 1251 E. Main St., Annville 6 p.m.

Memory Loss Panel

Presenters: Kristen Nebel, DO, FAFF, Annville Family Medicine, Vivian Fry, Social Worker, Rhunelle Murray, MD, UPMC Pinnacle Medical Director Neurology, Heather Nissley, PhD Lebanon Country Club | 3375 Oak St., Lebanon 4:30 p.m.

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Urinary Incontinence — You Don’t Have to Live with It

Presenter: Sharee Livingston, DO, OBGYN of Lancaster UPMC Lititz — Multipurpose Room 1500 Highlands Drive | 6 p.m.

Feeling Fine After 59

Presenter: Jamie Lilie, CRNP, Columbia Regional Health Center UPMC Lititz — Multipurpose Room 1500 Highlands Drive | 11:30 a.m.

Silver Circle: Is Depression a Normal Part of the Aging Process?

Presenter: Kristen Nebel, DO, FAFF, Annville Family Medicine Lebanon Valley Advanced Care Center Community Room | 1251 E. Main St., Annville 1 p.m.

Nonoperative Solutions for Chronic Knee Pain

Presenter: Kush Patel, MD, Spine, Bone, and Joint Center Lebanon Valley Advanced Care Center Community Room | 1251 E. Main St., Annville 6 p.m.

Triathlon Training, Tips, and Transitions: Getting Started Safely

Presenters: John Murphy, DO, and Sara Grosh, M.Ed., Orthopaedic Specialists of Central PA Lititz recCenter | 301 Maple St., Lititz | 6 p.m.

When Should I Call 911?

Presenter: Cynthia Zimmerman, RN, BSN, CEN, Emergency Department UPMC Pinnacle St. Anne’s Retirement Community 3952 Columbia Ave., Columbia, West Hempfield Twp. | 10 a.m.

Space is limited. Advance registration required online at UPMCPinnacle.com/Events or by calling 717-231-8900.

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To Cocoa Suite 4 AES Hearth & Patio..........................................................204 AFFA..................................................................................191 Allwell from PA Health & Wellness................................182 Appleby Systems Inc.......................................................127 At-Home Quality Care.....................................................205 Basement Waterproofing Specialists...........................124 Bath Fitter.........................................................................141 Beautiful Reflection by Maggie.....................................103 Bitner Family Funeral Homes........................................192 The Campus of the Jewish Home of Greater Harrisburg........................................................106 Capital Blue Cross............................................................155 CARE 4U Home Care Agency.........................................198 CBD American Shaman..................................................121 CBS21................................................................................140 Central Penn College......................................................195 ClearCaptions, LLC...........................................................148 Cordier Auctions & Appraisals.......................................202 Council on Aging / Dauphin County Veterans Affairs.................................................................... 167-169 Divine Crown Barber & Beauty Academy........... 110-113 doTERRA...........................................................................211 Dr. Kostow Wellness & Weight Loss...............................194 Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre..........................................105

Genexe..............................................................................122 Genexe Health.................................................................196 GenRx Testing Solutions, LLC.........................................184 Harmony at Hershey.......................................................203 Harrisburg Kennel Club................................. 116-119, 215 Hershey Entertainment & Resorts................................146 Hill Farm Estate................................................................180 Holy Family Radio............................................................128 Homeland Center & Homeland at Home............ 134-136 Homespire Windows & Doors........................................172 Humana............................................................................170 Kitchen Saver...................................................................186 LeafFilter Gutter Protection...........................................144 Londonderry Village.......................................................164 Lowee’s Group Tours / Innovative Coach.....................176 M.A.R.S. Group.................................................................129 Madden Physical Therapy..............................................181 MediPlan Connect...........................................................206 Mid-Atlantic Waterproofing..........................................189 Neill Funeral Home.........................................................150 Office of Attorney General.............................................178 Orthopedic Institute of PA.................................... 152, 153 PA Public Utility Commission........................................174

PA Relay............................................................................104 Pennsylvania Captioned Telephone Relay...................183 Pennsylvania Lottery / MARC USA................................145 PHOENIX Rehabilitation and Health Services, Inc.......210 Pretty in Jewels................................................................119 Providence Place Senior Living.....................................162 Renewal by Andersen.....................................................101 Ricker Sweigart & Associates.........................................212 RSVP of the Capital Region, Inc.....................................159 Sundance Vacations........................................................108 Tim Boyd State Farm Insurance.....................................139 Touch of Color Flooring..................................................131 Transitional Brain Research Center at Hershey Medical Center...............................................138 TrimLine Weight Loss......................................................157 Tri-State LeafGuard.........................................................209 UPMC for Life...................................................................158 UPMC Pinnacle....................................................... 132, 133 Vein Center of Lancaster / Lebanon.............................163 VIBRA.................................................................................165

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Don’t Miss the Great Lineup of Presentations and Entertainment at the EXPO! 10:15 a.m. –Revealed: How to Naturally Heal Shoulder Pain without Medications, Injections, or Surgery Presented by Chad Madden, Physical Therapist and Founder of Madden Physical Therapy Do you have shoulder pain when you reach up high overhead? Are you having trouble reaching behind your back? Problems sleeping at night?

If you answered yes, this seminar may be a lifechanging event for you. You’ll learn the three most common causes of rotator cuff problems and what a successful treatment looks like without medications, injections, or surgery.

9:30 a.m. – Senior Scam Prevention Presented by Jerry Mitchell, Outreach Specialist with the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General Jerry Mitchell is an outreach specialist with the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.

He works with community groups, school districts, law enforcement, legislatures, and senior groups to help educate Pennsylvanians on topics ranging from the latest scams to social media awareness to drug trends and the dangers of illegal drugs.

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11:45 a.m. – Duties of a Coroner and Current Issues We Are Facing Presented by Graham Hetrick, Coroner, Hetrick Forensic Consulting Dauphin County Coroner Graham Hetrick will provide a general overview of the duties and responsibilities of a coroner and will share the trends and challenges he sees on local, city, state, and national levels. Hetrick will address audience questions and will also talk about the making of the Investigation Discovery show on which he is featured, The Coroner: I Speak for the Dead.

12:30 p.m. – Chaz the Entertainer: A Show to Remember Presented by Chaz Matulonis Chaz will pay tribute to some of the great singers and comics of the past and the present. He loves entertaining and can do 29 impressions, so sit back and prepare to laugh!

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United by Passion: Baltimore’s Unique Museums

One minute I’m outside the American Visionary Art Museum, gazing at a 55-foot-tall whirligig. It spins, it whirls, it catches light and splatters it onto a nearby wall covered with fragments of mirror and tile.

Inside the museum there’s a giant “Bra Ball,” created from the The mosaic wall of the AVAM was built with the bras of nearly 2,000 help of at-risk students as a means of helping them breast cancer survivors. learn valuable job skills.

As you can tell, the AVAM is an extremely unusual place, one that celebrates the intuition and ingenuity of self-taught artists.

A few hours later I’m at the Baltimore Museum of Art, reveling in the bright colors and exuberant style of paintings by French artist Henri Matisse.

In addition to an internationally acclaimed collection of art, the BMA is the proud owner of the world’s largest holding of Matisse paintings.

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Finally, I find myself in front of the Flag House and Star-Spangled Banner Museum, staring at a giant glass replica of the banner that inspired our national anthem. Behind it is the home of the woman who stitched the original flag, now Art at the AVAM ranges from a most unusual auto a National Historic Landmark. to a giant ball created from the bras of breast Here, an overview cancer survivors. of three truly unique museums, none of which would exist were it not for the passion and dedication of some extraordinary folks.

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The Bookworm Sez

The Lost Girls of Paris Terri Schlichenmeyer

The frame was beautiful.

The picture inside it was of a stranger.

Who would give away that lovely piece of workmanship with a loved one’s portrait displayed? Who didn’t cherish it enough to keep it?

And in the new novel, The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff, who were the women in the picture?

Grace was running late.

That was unusual, and so was the reason: She’d spent the night in a hotel room with her late husband’s best friend.

Head down, embarrassed at such uncharacteristic behavior, she was surprised to spot a suitcase that had obviously been abandoned beneath a bench in Grand Central Station. She’d opened the suitcase and, in yet another unordinary action, took a handful of pictures that were inside.

It was a morning filled with uniqueness: Grace then barely missed witnessing an accident in which a woman was killed — the same woman, as it happened, to whom the suitcase belonged.

Eleanor was very protective of her girls.

She’d hand-picked each one of them, some for their fluent French and others for their dexterity.

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the one responsible for bringing them home at the end of World War II. In the meantime, Eleanor’s girls would do dangerous work. They’d be as prepared as possible for their tasks. She’d personally see to that.

Marie wasn’t entirely sure why she stayed with the SOE. Eleanor had given her ample opportunity to quit. She knew how much Marie missed her daughter, how much she hated training, and how unconfident Marie was in herself.

And yet, despite Eleanor’s offers and the danger involved, Marie couldn’t bring herself to quit. When her deployment within the SOE placed her The Lost Girls of Paris in a flat above a tavern that was known

By Pam Jenoff to entertain Germans, her determination c. 2019, Park Row Books doubled.

377 pages It increased again when her very survival was in question …

If you’re looking for something to carry around with you every day this week, check this out: The Lost Girls of Paris is a novel as thrilling as every espionage story you’ve ever read, as soft as every war romance you’ve ever heard, and as brutal as every war movie you’ve ever seen. Yep, that good.

Set at the end of and just after World War II, this novel captures readers’ imaginations from the outset, with the death of one of its main characters.

Photo credit Mindy Schwartz Sorasky The intrigue never lets up from there, Author Pam Jenoff. as author Pam Jenoff takes a heroic true story from the war and novelizes it without prettifying it; indeed, people die in this book — a lot. Further small details make this story, and they’ll sometimes Are you 62+ make you forget it’s fiction. or Older?

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Calendar of Events

Support Groups Free and open to the public Tuesdays, noon Al-Anon Family Group at Work Meeting Penn State Hershey Medical Center Seventh Floor, Room C7521 500 University Drive, Hershey (717) 448-7881 Other meeting times/locations at https://pa-al-anon.org Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

Swatara Serenity Al-Anon Family Group Meeting Unitarian Church of Harrisburg 1280 Clover Lane, Harrisburg (717) 448-7881 Other meeting times/locations at https://pa-al-anon.org Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.

Adult Children of Alcoholics Support Group St. Mark’s Lutheran Church 2200 Londonderry Road, Harrisburg (717) 526-9252 ymt57@comcast.net May 1, 10-11:30 a.m.

Life Enrichment Group for Blind and Low-Vision Adults Vision Resources of Central Pennsylvania 1130 S. 19th St., Harrisburg (717) 238-2531 May 1 and 15, 7-8:30 p.m.

ANAD Eating Disorders Support Group

PinnacleHealth Polyclinic Landis Building, Sixth Floor Classroom 1 2501 N. Third St., Harrisburg (717) 712-9535 May 2, 7-8 p.m.

Fibromyalgia Support Group LeVan Chiropractic 1000 Briarsdale Road, Suite C Harrisburg (717) 558-3500 May 3, 10:30 a.m.

Parkinson’s Disease Support Group Helen M. Simpson Rehabilitation Hospital Second Floor Pinnacle Conference Room 2 4300 Londonderry Road, Harrisburg (717) 216-2730 elcassel@simpson-rehab.com May 8, 6-7 p.m.

Alzheimer’s Support Group Brookdale Harrisburg 3560 N. Progress Ave., Harrisburg (717) 671-4700 May 14, 6-7 p.m.

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group Greenfield Senior Living at Graysonview 150 Kempton Ave., Harrisburg (717) 561-8010

Senior Center Activities May 15, 2-4 p.m.

Parkinson’s Support Group The Residence of the Jewish Home Second Floor Library 4004 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 697-2513 May 16, 6 p.m.

Alzheimer’s Support Group Country Meadows of Hershey Second Floor Training Room 451 Sand Hill Road, Hershey (717) 533-6996 astoner@countrymeadows.com May 16, 6-8 p.m.

Harrisburg Area Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver Support Group Giant Food Stores – Second Floor 2300 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 580-7772 May 20, 6:30 p.m.

Support Group for Families of Those with Memory-Related Illnesses Frey Village 1020 N. Union St., Middletown (717) 930-1218 May 29, 7-8 p.m.

Connections Support Group: Families of Memory Impaired Ecumenical Retirement Community Building 3, Second Floor 3525 Canby St., Harrisburg (717) 561-2590

Community Programs Free and open to the public May 1, 7 p.m.

World Culture Club of Central Pennsylvania Meeting Penn State Hershey Medical Center Fifth Floor, Lecture Room B 500 University Drive, Hershey www.worldcultureclubpa.org May 2, 7 p.m.

Central Pennsylvania World War II Roundtable Meeting Grace United Methodist Church 433 E. Main St., Hummelstown (717) 503-2862 charlie.centralpaww2rt@gmail.com www.centralpaww2roundtable.org May 9, 7:30 p.m.

Central Pennsylvania Vietnam Roundtable Meeting Vietnam Veterans of America Michael Novosel MOH Chapter 542 8000 Derry St., Harrisburg (717) 545-2336 centralpavietnamrt@verizon.net www.centralpavietnamroundtable.org

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May 19, 4 p.m.

Arts Alive Cultural Series: Pianist Joseph Kingma Derry Presbyterian Church 249 E. Derry Road, Hershey (717) 533-9667 May 21, 10 a.m.

Mt. Gretna: A History in Postcards Derry Seniors Derry Presbyterian Church 249 E. Derry Road, Hershey (717) 533-9667 May 22, 7 p.m.

Piecemakers Quilt Guild of Middletown St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Spring and Union streets

Middletown (717) 915-5555 gsk1308@gmail.com May 28, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Susquehanna Rovers Volksmarch Walking Club Bass Pro Shop – Hunt Room Harrisburg Mall 3501 Paxton St., Harrisburg (717) 805-9540

PARKS & RECREATION May 5, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Garden Faire, Fort Hunter Park May 8, 5:45-7:15 p.m. – Stress Relief Walk, Wildwood Park May 15, 7:30-9:30 a.m. – Bird Walk: Peak Migration, Wildwood Park

Friendship Senior Center – (717) 657-1547 Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 8-9 a.m . – Light Aerobics Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m. – Mah Jong Mohler Senior Center – (717) 533-2002 www.mohlerseniorcenter.com May 6, noon – Senior Fitness Lunch & Learn May 7, 1 p.m. – C ollege of Knowledge: Drumsticks and Brain Tricks May 14, 1 p.m. – College of Knowledge: Intro to Hypnosis Rutherford House – (717) 564-5682 www.rutherfordcenter.org Mondays, 10 a.m. – Line Dancing Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. – Art Class Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to noon – Computer Assistance Submit senior center events to mjoyce@onlinepub.com.

Library Programs East Shore Area Library, 4501 Ethel St., Harrisburg, (717) 652-9380 May 9-11, hours vary – Book and Media Spring Book Sale May 20, 6-8:30 p.m. – Pennsylvania German Genealogy Elizabethville Area Library, 80 N. Market St., Elizabethville, (717) 362-9825 May 17-18, hours vary – Library Raffle Auction May 31, 6-8 p.m. – Fandom Friday Kline Library, 530 S. 29th St., Harrisburg, (717) 2343934 May 2, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – This is My House: Today’s Housing Market May 29, 6-8 p.m. – Knit 1, Crochet Too! Madeline L. Olewine Memorial Library, 2410 N. Third St., Harrisburg, (717) 232-7286 May 14 and 20, 1-2:30 p.m. – Job Seekers Resources May 20, 6-7 p.m. – Cookbook Book Club: Vegetarian Delights McCormick Riverfront Library, 101 Walnut St., Harrisburg, (717) 234-4976 May 17, 6-6:45 p.m. – Escape Room: Back to the Future!

May 28, 5:30-6:30 p.m. – Device Club Northern Dauphin Library, 683 Main St., Lykens, (717) 453-9315 May 4, 1-2 p.m. – All Aboard the RMS Titanic May 20, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – Disaster Preparedness William H. & Marion C. Alexander Family Library, 200 W. Second St., Hummelstown, (717) 566-0949 May 7, 6:30-8 p.m. – Novel Thoughts Book Club May 21, 1-3 p.m. – Novel Thoughts Too Book Club If you have an event you would like to include, please email information to mjoyce@onlinepub.com for consideration.

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May is

Better Hearing & Speech Month Savvy Senior

Jim Miller

Simplified Cellphones for Users with Hearing Problems

Dear Savvy Senior, Can you recommend some basic, simplified cellphones for seniors with hearing loss? My 82-year-old father needs to get a new cellphone for occasional calls or emergencies, but he needs something that’s easy to use and one that he can hear on.

– Looking Around Dear Looking, There are several simplified cellphones on the market today that are specifically designed for seniors — including those with hearing loss.

These are basic cellphones that come with big buttons, easy-to-navigate menus, SOS emergency buttons, and enhanced sound and are hearing aid compatible too.

Here are some top options.

Senior-Friendly Phones If your dad isn’t locked into a cellphone contract, there are three seniorfriendly options to consider, all from no-contract cellphone companies.

One of best is GreatCall’s Jitterbug Flip (www. greatcall.com, (800) 918-8543). This custom-designed Samsung flip phone offers a backlit keypad with big buttons, large text on a brightly colored screen, and “yes” and “no” buttons to access the phone’s menu of options versus confusing icons.

It also offers voice dialing, a powerful speakerphone, a built-in camera, and a variety of optional health and safety features: • The 5Star medical alert button would let your dad call 24/7 for help and speak to a certified agent who could identify his location and dispatch help as needed.

• The Urgent Care service provides access to registered nurses and doctors for advice, diagnoses, and prescription refills.

• GreatCall Link is a free app for family members. If your dad calls 5Star from his Jitterbug, app users will receive an alert on their smartphone.

If your dad prefers a smartphone, Jitterbug’s Smart2 has a 5.5-inch screen, front-facing speaker, a simplified menu, a voice-typing option, and a 13megapixel camera with flash.

As with the flip phone, Smart2 includes the 5Star urgent response button and the safety features listed above.

Another excellent option is the Doro PhoneEasy 626 sold through Consumer Cellular (www.consumercellular.com, (888) 345-5509).

This flip phone offers a backlit, separated keypad that can speak the numbers as you push them, which is a nice feature for seniors with vision problems.

It also has a big, easy-to-read color display screen that offers large text with different color themes.

Other handy features include two speed-dial buttons; shortcut buttons to texting and the camera; a powerful, two-way speakerphone; and an ICE (in case of emergency) button on the back of the phone that will automatically dial one preprogrammed number.

Another budget-friendly cellphone you should look into is the Snapfon ezTWO for seniors (www.snapfon.com, (800) 937-1532).

This is a bar-style phone that provides big buttons, a color screen, enhanced volume with a speakerphone, and a speaking keypad.

There is also an SOS emergency alert button on the back of the phone that can sound an alert when pushed and held down for five seconds. It then sends a text message to as many as five emergency contacts and calls those contacts in order until the call is answered.

Or, for an additional monthly fee, you can subscribe to their sosPlus monitoring service, which will dispatch help as needed.

Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit www.savvysenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of The Savvy Senior book.

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May is

Better Hearing & Speech Month Hearing Loss: How to Cope and How to Help

Approximately 1 in 3 people between the ages of 65 and 74 has hearing loss, and nearly half of those older than 75 have difficulty hearing.

But, some people may not want to admit they have trouble hearing.

Studies have shown that older adults with hearing loss have a greater risk of developing dementia than older adults with normal hearing.

Cognitive abilities (including memory and concentration) decline faster in older adults with hearing loss than in older adults with normal hearing. Treating hearing problems may be important for cognitive health.

• In a group, include people with hearing loss in the conversation.

Signs of Hearing Loss Some people have a hearing problem and don’t realize it. You should see your doctor if you:

• Do not hide your mouth, eat, or chew gum while speaking.

• Find a quiet place to talk to help reduce background noise, especially in restaurants and at social gatherings.

• Stand in good lighting and use facial expressions or gestures to give clues.

• Face the person and speak clearly. Maintain eye contact.

• Speak a little more loudly than normal, but don’t shout. Try to speak slowly, but naturally.

• Speak at a reasonable speed.

• Repeat yourself if necessary, using different words.

• Have trouble hearing over the telephone

• Try to make sure only one person talks at a time.

• Find it hard to follow conversations when two or more people are talking

• Be patient. Stay positive and relaxed.

• Often ask people to repeat what they are saying

• A sk how you can help.

• Need to turn up the TV volume so loud that others complain

Source: National Institute on Aging

• Have a problem hearing because of background noise • Think that others seem to mumble • Can’t understand when women and children speak to you How to Cope with Hearing Loss If you notice signs of hearing loss, talk to your doctor. If you have trouble hearing, you should:

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• Let people know you have a hearing problem.

• A sk people to face you and to speak more slowly and clearly. Also, ask them to speak louder without shouting.

• Pay attention to what is being said and to facial expressions or gestures.

• Let the person talking know if you do not understand what he or she said.

• A sk the person speaking to reword a sentence and try again.

• Find a good location to listen. Place yourself between the speaker and sources of noise and look for quieter places to talk.

• The most important thing you can do if you think you have a hearing problem is to seek professional advice. Your family doctor may be able to diagnose and treat your hearing problem. Or, your doctor may refer you to other experts, like an otolaryngologist (ear, nose, and throat doctor) or an audiologist (health professional who can identify and measure hearing loss).

How to Talk with Someone with Hearing Loss Here are some tips you can use when talking with someone who has a hearing problem:

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May is

Better Hearing & Speech Month Quieting the Noise: 5 Ways to Reduce the Effects of Ringing in the Ears

By Dr. Leisa Lyles-DeLeon

An appointment with your physician – While less common, tinnitus can be an early indicator of a serious medical condition. It is best to receive a full checkup by your physician to eliminate more serious concerns.

Tinnitus refers to the perception of sound when no external sounds are actually present.

Often described as a constant “ringing in the ears,” tinnitus can present itself as a variation of different types of sounds.

This may range from sounds of whistling to swooshing to buzzing.

Tinnitus is not a disease, but rather a symptom of an underlying problem.

Treatment begins with identifying its cause.

Common causes of tinnitus include: Auditory trauma – Exposure to loud noises can trigger tinnitus. This is common in situations of occupational noise. Think construction workers, landscapers, or musicians.

Workers in these fields can regularly face noise decimals upwards of 95-plus.

Hearing is put in harm’s way when constant exposure over 85 decimals occurs.

Age-related hearing loss – Age is the strongest predictor of hearing loss among adults aged 20-69, with the greatest amount of hearing loss in the 6069 age group. Tinnitus can result directly from hearing loss.

Earwax buildup – Excessive wax in the ear can cause tinnitus. The earwax that our bodies naturally produce helps clean, protect, and lubricate our ears.

However, when too much wax builds in our ears, our eardrums can become irritated and/or hearing loss may occur, which can lead to tinnitus.

If you’re experiencing noise in your ears that extends for a period of time, you should consider the following:

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Hearing aids – Particularly for those also suffering from hearing loss, hearing aids can reduce the impact of tinnitus.

When your actual hearing is improved, your tinnitus may become less noticeable.

more tolerable.

Tinnitus maskers – If you’re not suffering from hearing loss, an audiologist can fit you with a tinnitus masker.

This device looks like a hearing aid but instead produces sounds that “mask” tinnitus. These sounds make the tinnitus

White- or pink-noise devices – White noise, such as the steady whir of a fan, can help mask tinnitus. The same is true for pink noise, which refers to a balanced mix of high and low frequencies (e.g., waves crashing or leaves rustling).

These devices can be particularly helpful at night while sleeping and can be found for as low as $20. There are also apps that can be streamed on your phone or tablet for as little as $2.

Tinnitus retraining therapy – While this can be a more costly option (it’s typically not covered by insurance), tinnitus retraining therapy has shown positive results for those suffering from tinnitus.

It uses a combination of sound therapy and counseling to try to reduce a patient’s focus on tinnitus. The objective is to disassociate tinnitus with negative occurrences and associate it with positive occurrences.

This can help reduce stress often associated with tinnitus, which can make it worse.

Cases of tinnitus vary greatly. In some cases, it’s hardly noticeable until someone brings it up in conversation. On the other end of the spectrum, it can be so disruptive that it interferes with every part of your day.

Ultimately, if you are feeling bothered in any way by noise in your ears, you should immediately schedule an appointment with your doctor.

Author and licensed audiologist Dr. Leisa Lyles-DeLeon has over a decade of experience in clinical audiology, the hearing aid industry, and education and research.

Lyles-DeLeon is a board member of the District of Columbia and a fellow of the American Academy of Audiology and the American Speech Language-Hearing Association.

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The Beauty in Nature

Warblers I’ve Enjoyed Clyde McMillan-Gamber

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except they are slimmer and have thin beaks and a yellow rump.

During winter, they mostly ingest berries, the reason they can winter in the north.

These are a few of my favorite warblers. Their relatives, and all life, have something of interest as well.

Life on Earth is quite intriguing, more than anything else.

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Several kinds of his nesting territory. warblers, which Common are small, colorful yellowthroat birds that winter in warblers are olive Central and South brown on top America, nest in and yellow below. forests and woody Each male also thickets in North has a black mask America, including over his eyes. He in southeastern sings “witchety, Pennsylvania. witchety, witchety” Yellow warbler Often called to attract a mate to “feathered jewels,” his nesting territory many kinds of among shrubbery these lively little near ponds and birds migrate small waterways. through here early Blue-winged in May, and some warblers hatch species stay here to young in rows of raise young. multiflora rose All species bushes between Photo by Tony Castro of warblers eat fields. This species Blue-winged warbler invertebrates is olive above and during the warmer yellow underneath months and feed the same to their and has a little light blue on each offspring. wing. Males emit an interesting, All warblers are small, and most buzzy song that sounds like an elf of them are difficult to see. Use inhaling and exhaling, “beeee-buzzzz.” field guides or get online to see the Louisiana waterthrushes “dance beautiful colors and patterns that and bob” as they walk along identify each species. woodland streams in search of aquatic I have fond memories of seven invertebrates. Those extra motions kinds of favorite warblers that I resemble debris bouncing in the particularly enjoy in southeastern current of the stream, which is a form Pennsylvania. Each species has at of camouflage. least one characteristic that makes it Waterthrushes rear offspring in interesting. leaf-lined notches behind tree roots in Palm warblers migrate through here stream banks. early in April, which is before most Ovenbirds walk on dead-leaf warblers do. They inhabit woodland forest floors to get invertebrates for swamps where they walk, while themselves and their young. Brown pumping their tails, along edges of above and white with rows of dark shallow puddles on leafy forest floors spots below, ovenbirds blend into leafto get invertebrates. carpeted forest floors.

This attractive species is brown on The usually invisible males ring out top, which camouflages it, and yellow “teacher, teacher, teacher” to attract below with a rusty cap. females to them for raising youngsters Yellow warblers are yellow all over, on woodland floors. making them striking among the Little flocks of yellow-rumped leaves of willow trees and bushes, warblers winter in southeastern where they nest by ponds and streams. Pennsylvania and through much Each male yellow warbler sings lively of the eastern United States. They ditties that attract a female to him in resemble sparrows to some extent,

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BALTIMORE from page 21

The Flag Museum features a life-size glass rendition of the giant flag sewn by Mary Pickersgill and her helpers.

Pickersgill’s home features a replica of the flag that became the known as the Star-Spangled Banner.

In Fell’s Point, near the home where

art,” a term that’s often used by those on the inside to Mary Pickersgill stitched the famous museum to even higher levels. describe works they don’t understand.

There’s no way we can see everything at the BMA in flag, a costumed interpreter relates This is art that owes nothing to tradition (as does folk one visit. We feast on the works of Matisse and then go the events of the War of 1812. art) and little to the surrounding environment (as does outside to the sculpture gardens, where more than 30 most art). Rather it seems to burst forth from the creator’s soul — thoroughly works by acclaimed artists, such as Auguste Rodin and Alexander Calder, are original, often quixotic or quirky. In short, visionary. spread across nearly 3 acres. www.artbma.org Most works — like the haunting figure carved by a tuberculosis patient — are accompanied by a story, bringing voice to the oft-anonymous and usually The Patriots’ Passion: The Flag House and Star-Spangled Banner Museum uncelebrated artist. Some elicit tears, other bring laughs, all provoke thought.

When, during the War of 1812, Commander George Armistead asked seamstress Mary Pickersgill to create a flag to fly above Baltimore’s Fort Today the museum, which has been designated America’s “official national education center, repository, and museum for self-taught, intuitive artistry,” is McHenry, she may have gulped, but she didn’t hesitate. spread over more than an acre that contains three buildings as well as several Instead she enlisted the help of five women and together, working near outdoor exhibition areas. round-the-clock, they produced a large garrison flag that could be seen for Yet despite its newfound respectability, it is, says Hoffberger, “a most unmiles around as well as a smaller flag that could be used in inclement weather. museumy place” — and this is just the way she likes it. www.avam.org As the British pummeled the fort during the Battle of Baltimore, a young lawyer named Francis Scott Key watched from aboard a small ship. The following morning, “in the dawn’s early light,” he saw the giant flag and knew The Sisters’ Fervor: The Baltimore Museum of Art The building that houses the BMA is replete with a portico and classical that Baltimore was safe.

Greek columns, just the sort of place where you’d expect to find 90,000 pieces Thus inspired, he wrote the poem that later became the national anthem of of art and artifacts that span continents as well as centuries. the United States, and the giant flag that Mary Pickersgill and her helpers had But it’s the Cone collection that has brought worldwide fame to the made became known as the Star-Spangled Banner. museum. Claribel and Etta Cone were Golden Girls from the Gilded Age, rich We visit Pickersgill’s home and the adjacent Flag Museum. The museum is socialites with an eye for art and the money to indulge. filled with exhibits relating to the War of 1812, but it’s Pickersgill’s home — They traveled the world, and their “souvenirs” were works by some of the restored with period furniture — that gives me a tingly feeling. This is where greatest late 19th- and early 20th-century artists, from Matisse and Picasso to history was made, one stitch at a time. www.flaghouse.org Cézanne, Gauguin, and van Gogh.

Over the years, their collection reached approximately 3,000 objects, and in Photos ©Irv Green unless otherwise noted; story by Andrea Gross (andreagross.com).

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metabolisms to determine a person’s age.

Then they observed a significant difference between the age of some people’s brains and their chronological ages, leading to the discovery that older women’s brains, on average, were about four years younger in terms of metabolism than men’s brains.

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Older But Not Wiser

To Tell or Not to Tell Sy Rosen

through the line four or five times. And the meal always ended with me being the lookout and my mom stuffing dinner rolls into her purse. We didn’t think of it as cheating or being dishonest. We thought of it as survival.

But my folks acted this way because they lived through the Depression … through bread lines and soup kitchens.

Maybe it was time for me to change. After all, I didn’t live through those hard times.

I decided to ask some of my friends how they would act if they were undercharged.

A few of them quickly said they would tell. They were very proud of themselves, but I wasn’t sure if I believed them.

I then asked my buddy Larry. Larry and I have similar qualities (we are both very cheap).

“It depends,” he told me.

“On what?” I asked.

“Well, if it’s a small mom-and-pop store, I usually tell. But if it’s a large department store, I don’t tell.”

“Suppose it’s a large mom-and-pop store?” I asked.

“Then I don’t tell, but I feel guilty about it.”

My cousin Carl said he doesn’t tell because people are always trying to take advantage of him, so it’s his way of getting even.

“It’s the way of the world,” he told me.

After listening to my cynical cousin Carl, I decided to let my daughter be my role model. It’s best to be honest. After all, these places are trying to make a living.

And from now on, if I am undercharged, I will always tell. I will usually tell.

Sometimes I will tell. Once in a while I will tell. And I am very proud of my decision.

Sy Rosen has written for many TV shows, including The Bob Newhart Show, Taxi, M.A.S.H., Maude, The Jeffersons, Rhoda, Frasier, Northern Exposure, and The Wonder Years. He now spends much of his time telling jokes to his grandkids and trying to convince his wife that he’s funny.

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I was having breakfast with my daughter Ann and my two granddaughters, Summer and Sienna.

There was a Sunday buffet at a neighborhood restaurant and my daughter was treating, which is great for two reasons: it shows she’s a mature, responsible grown-up, and secondly, I’m kind of cheap.

The bill came, and the waiter said he didn’t charge for Summer and Sienna because children under 5 get the buffet for free.

Ann quickly corrected the waiter, telling him that Sienna was 2 but Summer was already 5. And so the waiter added an additional $7.99 to the bill — the cost of a child’s buffet.

OK, it wasn’t my role to say anything, and I knew I shouldn’t overstep my boundaries as a grandfather.

However, the first words out of my mouth were, “Ann, why did you tell him?

Summer wouldn’t have been charged.”

“Dad, she’s 5 ½, and I can’t lie about that.”

My instinct was to give a very reasonable, logical response, and so I asked, “Why not?!”

“Because I want to teach Summer to be honest.”

At this point I lowered my voice so Summer wouldn’t hear me. She wasn’t really listening anyway because on her last trip to the buffet line she had discovered the pastry section, and she was now thoroughly engrossed in the messiest ways to eat a chocolate éclair.

“OK,” I whispered, “but 5 ½ is very close to being under 5. Your Aunt Esther is 70 and she tells everyone she’s 48.”

“Dad, that’s different.”

I decided not to go into how my parents acted when I was growing up. Back then, if I was under 12, I could get into the movies for a quarter, and therefore I was under 12 until I had to shave.

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month One in six people will experience serious depression during their lifetime, and knowing what to say and how to act around them can help them cope with the condition better.

From the HuffPost website come these suggestions for helping friends and family deal with their depression: Listen. Don’t offer solutions or try to “fix” things. Most people with depression have heard suggestions. They mostly just want someone to listen to them.

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Ms. Pennsylvania Senior America Pageant August 11, 2019

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Are you a woman who has reached the “Age of Elegance” — 60 years and older?

Pa. Senior America is looking for you.

At the pageant, you will compete for the title by completing four categories: 1. 5-minute interview with judges 2. State your philosophy of life

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Senior America, Inc., is a non-profit corporation designed not only to enrich the lives of seniors, but also to tap their energy to enrich the lives of others.

Find out more at the Senior America website: www.senioramerica.org

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