Dauphin County 50plus Senior News June 2014 by On-Line Publishers, Inc.

Dauphin County Edition

June 2014

Vol. 16 No. 6

In It for the Long, Long Run Athlete, Cancer Survivor Ran First Marathon at 51 By Chelsea Peifer Some people spend months or even years training to run a marathon. After all, the 26.2 grueling miles require the human body to be in topnotch condition. But after beating cancer in her late 30s—and with a long-running commitment to exercise driving her—Karen Charlesworth decided to go for it, running her first marathon at age 51. While the now 59-year-old Harrisburg resident said that she was “definitely sore the next day,” Charlesworth strives to always try something new, and the marathon was just one of many adventures she seeks out each passing year. “I love running with others and getting them to the finish line, especially newbies,” she said. “I will run at their pace, regardless, and talk with them to divert their uncomfortable feelings with the first run they have done.” Since surviving colon cancer at age 37, Charlesworth is incredibly grateful for her life, and she hopes to make every year special. Initially, Charlesworth’s doctor misdiagnosed her as having depression, but she knew that wasn’t the case. Always energetic and in tune with her body, Charlesworth could tell that something was amiss because she no longer had her normal energy level. She was becoming out of breath just walking from parking lots and into please see RUN page 15 Athlete and cancer survivor Karen Charlesworth ran her first marathon at age 51 and hopes to inspire others to take control of their own health.

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A Salute to Our Veterans of D-Day page 4

Men’s Health Resources page 7

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. 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-year-old named Warren. 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, she was kind of an outcast and given the nickname of Beanpole. I could relate because I had (and still have) a large nose, and the kids nicknamed me Nose (they weren’t very creative). Anyway, Ann came into the room and sat next to me as I was reading to Summer. It was an unbelievable experience. I was reading to my granddaughter while also thinking about the first time I read Beanpole to my daughter. I got really caught up in the story, reading it with great enthusiasm, when Ann put her arm on my shoulder. I thought she was giving me a signal about how great I was doing, but actually she was telling me to speak softer, that Summer was getting tired. And so I lowered my voice, and Summer eventually closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep. It was a good day.

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Between the Lines of the Headlines Gloria May, M.S., R.N., CHES learned the art of successful napping from my dad. Almost every Saturday afternoon, he would put on his pajamas, turn off the bedroom phone, and even don a sleep shade that looked like the one the Lone Ranger wore, only without the eyeholes. He loved being able to sleep for about an hour, awake refreshed, and go about his evening energized as if it were a new day. If you too are a devotee of the afternoon snooze, you’ll appreciate my concern over a recent headline, “Daily Siesta Linked to Increased Mortality in Older Women” and the article’s lead

sentence, “Older women who take a daily nap may be at increased risk of death, researchers here [University of Pennsylvania] said.” The second paragraph reported that in a particular study of some 800 women over age 69, those who self-reported a nap every day were 44 percent more likely to die over a seven-year follow-up period than those who didn’t report a daily doze. Should I urge my friends, family, and readers to stay awake all day? What about all the Mediterranean country shopkeepers who shut their businesses in the afternoon so they can take their siestas? Are we

Resource Directory PACE (800) 225-7223

Emergency Central PA Poison Center (800) 521-6110

Tri-County Association for the Blind (717) 238-2531

Social Security Information (800) 772-1213

Healthcare Information PA Healthcare Cost Containment Council (717) 232-6787

Floor Coverings Gipe Floor & Wall Covering 5435 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 545-6103

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

Funeral Directors Zimmerman Auer Funeral Home, Inc. 4100 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 545-4001

Home Modifications 3-D Consultants (717) 651-5133

Health & Medical Services Alzheimer’s Association (717) 651-5020 American Diabetes Association (800) 342-2383 Arthritis Foundation – Central PA Chapter (717) 763-0900 CONTACT Helpline (717) 652-4400 The National Kidney Foundation (717) 757-0604 (800) 697-7007 www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com

Senior Home Repairs (717) 545-8747 Hospice Services Homeland Hospice 2300 Vartan Way, Suite 115, Harrisburg (717) 221-7890 Housing/Apartments B’Nai B’rith Apartments 130 S.Third St., Harrisburg (717) 232-7516

but it took three paragraphs to get there! Headlines are designed to quickly catch our eye and, as such, are often sensationalized and misleading. Most of us are eager to know as much as possible about our health, but when skimming the headlines, we need to keep in mind that: • “News” is just that, fresh information, and it may not endure the test of time. The Journal of the American Medical Association has reported that as many as a third of published studies are contradicted please see HEADLINES page 5

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Cremation Zimmerman Auer Funeral Home, Inc. 4100 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 545-4001

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women napping ourselves to death? And has all the research that to date has extolled the physical and mental benefits of the “power nap” now been scrapped? Not until I got to the third paragraph could I exhale. It said, “… the findings are likely attributable to underlying medical conditions or sleep disorders.” In other words, the naps themselves weren’t the cause of premature deaths, as was suggested in the headline, but were assessed as signs that something else was medically awry with these women. Taking a nap is not in itself an act that will shorten our lives (thank goodness!),

Housing Assistance Dauphin County Housing Authority (717) 939-9301

Toll-Free Numbers American Lung Association (800) LUNG-USA

Property Tax/Rent Rebate (888) 728-2937

Bureau of Consumer Protection (800) 441-2555

Insurance Apprise Insurance Counseling (800) 783-7067

Meals on Wheels (800) 621-6325

Nursing/Rehab Homeland Center 1901 N. Fifth St., Harrisburg (717) 221-7902 The Middletown Home 999 W. Harrisburg Pike, Middletown (717) 944-3351 Personal Care Homes Homeland Center 1901 N. Fifth St., Harrisburg (717) 221-7902 Pharmacy CVS/pharmacy www.cvs.com Services Dauphin County Area Agency on Aging (717) 255-2790

National Council on Aging (800) 424-9046 Social Security Office (800) 772-1213 Veterans Affairs (717) 626-1171 or (800) 827-1000 Transportation CAT Share-A-Ride (717) 232-6100 Travel Wheelchair Getaways Serving Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, and Southern New Jersey (717) 921-2000 Veterans Services Lebanon VA Medical Center 1700 S. Lincoln Ave., Lebanon (717) 228-6000 or (800) 409-8771

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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.

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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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Farmers Market Vouchers Soon Available Farmers Market Nutrition Program vouchers, worth $20, may be redeemed through Nov. 30, 2013, for Pennsylvania-grown fruits and vegetables at participating farmers markets and roadside stands in Dauphin County. FMNP-eligible food is defined as “grown or able to be grown in Pennsylvania.” Vouchers are not accepted for citrus or tropical fruits, such as bananas, oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, tangerines, pineapples, or mangoes. FMNP vouchers are not accepted for processed food, e.g., jams, honey, nuts, cider, or baked goods. FMNP vouchers cannot be used at grocery stores or supermarkets. Eligible seniors will receive four vouchers worth $5 apiece for a total value of $20. Customers will not receive change if the FMNP purchase does not total $5. They may be offered additional FMNP-eligible food to make the purchase an even $5. To be eligible, county residents age 60 and older must have an annual income less than $21,590 for a single individual or $29,101 for married couples. These guidelines are subject to change. The federal guidelines that are in place the day of distribution will be those that are used. Proof of age and Dauphin County residency are required (driver’s license, photo ID, etc.). Any person obtaining vouchers for another must present a completed and signed proxy form from the person for

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whom they are receiving vouchers. Contact the agency to have this form sent to you prior to your selected distribution date. Vouchers are offered on a one-timeonly per summer basis. Supplies are limited and are distributed on a firstcome, first-served basis. For more information or to receive a proxy form, contact Dauphin County Area Agency on Aging at (717) 780-6130. 2014 distribution of the vouchers will be at the following sites. • Friday, May 30, 8 a.m. to noon – Northern Dauphin Human Services Center, 295 State Drive, Elizabethville • Friday, May 30, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Friendship Senior Center, 5000 Commons Drive, Harrisburg • Friday, June 6, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Essex House, 320 Market St., Middletown • Tuesday, June 10, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Zion Assembly of Harrisburg, 2101 N. Fifth St. (Fifth and Maclay), Harrisburg Any remaining vouchers from Essex House, Friendship Senior Center, and Zion Assembly of Harrisburg will be available at the Agency on Aging office, 2 S. Second St., Harrisburg, by appointment at (717) 780-6130. Any remaining vouchers for Northern Dauphin Human Services Center will be available at this same location on Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

from page 3 about results of research done on rats. It’s only a beginning.

• A single study seldom provides a definitive answer or a sound reason for any lifestyle or habit change.

• Studies funded by companies that have a vested interest in the outcomes should be set aside until an independent researcher takes a look. Follow the money.

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or at least weakened by subsequent research.

• Studies like the “nap” study are called “observational studies,” meaning, in this case, that the women were merely tracked for a period of time; nothing was done to them like changing their diet or giving them medication. Observational studies suggest areas for further research but rarely provide solid conclusions that would warrant big changes in your life.

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Assisted Living Residences/Personal Care Homes The listings with a shaded background have additional information about their center in a display advertisement in this edition.

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.

Homeland Center

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

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.

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the teen years to middle eating habits, reckless age—men (on average) driving, and overexposure are 40 percent more likely to sun, which all threaten to get sick and die than health. women. (Current life Men’s health issues also expectancy for a man in get less public attention the U.S. is 75.6 versus and funding at a time 80.8 for a woman.) when women’s health Why? The reasons are concerns (like breast Men’s Health Week complex; however, most cancer) are in the national is June 9–15 experts agree that biology, spotlight. such as the different ways men and women react to stress, likely What to Do plays a role. Doctors say that by paying attention And men, taught since boyhood to be to just a few key areas like blood pressure, stoic in the face of pain, often are their cholesterol, waist size, and sexual own worst enemy, avoiding doctors and function (which can be an early indicator engaging in risky health behaviors like of heart disease), men can make dramatic excessive alcohol consumption, unhealthy improvements for their overall health.

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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.

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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. Gambling Wisdom of the Week: “I cheat my boys every chance I get. I want to make ’em sharp.” — William Avery Rockefeller (c. 1850), John D.’s father Mark Pilarski is a recognized authority on casino gambling, having survived 18 years in the casino trenches. Pilarski is the creator of the bestselling, award-winning audio book series on casino gambling, Hooked on Winning. www.markpilarski.com

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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 new assignment would have something to do

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with radio. He’d have somehow I managed to wait to find out. to get through it.” When the plane First, he was sent to landed in Chongqing, San Pedro, Calif. There China, Shearer and 12 he boarded a Liberty other men were ship for a 10-week trip assigned to an outpost across the Pacific, with camp bordering the stops in Tasmania and Gobi Desert on one Ceylon (now Sri side and Inner Lanka) before arriving Mongolia on the at Calcutta, India, on other, beyond the New Year’s Eve. Great Wall of China There he boarded a and about 40 miles C-47 for a hazardous west of the Japanese flight over “The Radioman First Class force’s westernmost Hump,” the plane John R. “Jack” Shearer, outpost. climbing to 17,000 home from China in 1946. Called Camp 4, it feet to clear the was one of a dozen camps in China that mountains. What was that like? were among the best-kept secrets of the “Well,” he says, “it was plenty bumpy, and we had people using their ‘barf ’ bags war. They were primarily weather stations created through a pact with left and right. I didn’t have one, and I China called SACO (Sino-American came awfully close to needing it, but

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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 scattering of huts ate the vegetables with nothing to at your own peril. do or see. So The locals fertilized there was really with human waste, no point in and eating the going.” vegetables they The two years grew produced lots in the camp of diarrhea. seemed like an “The worst eternity, but it problem, though, finally passed. Jack Shearer on the horse issued to him was the bugs. Shearer says one at his remote base in primitive China. They were thing of interest everywhere. There about the grim were cockroaches in our hair, lice in our two years was that, suffering through it clothes, and bedbugs in our bedding. with him was a medical doctor named There was no way to get rid of them … Henry Heimlich, who later won national they were always with us. That was true acclaim for developing the Heimlich for the whole two years I was there.” maneuver that saves people who are Was there anything to see? choking on food lodged in their “Nope … nothing. There were some windpipe. small villages, and we each had a horse. Did the Chinese food help him But, when you got there, it was just a 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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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 eye-catching 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.” 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

leave it to the audience. If look good without being I had another face, do good looking. you think I would wear Once our good looks this one?” begin to vanish, we have This retort scored other resources to “Father Abraham,” as he display: charm, kindness, was called by those who knowledge, integrity, saw in him a biblical humor, and, as Eleanor image, election points Roosevelt has shown, a that otherwise may have measure of wisdom. been denied him because They are all part of of his lack of good looks. looking good. Comic Jimmy Durante There were times and physicist Albert Abraham Lincoln Brig. Gen. James M. Stewart, Einstein were not depended on selfUSAF Reserve, circa 1968 handsome. Yet people deprecating humor when campaigning for election. Henry Villard, found them appealing because their appearance matched the public’s image— a journalist who covered the Lincolnexpectations for the roles each Douglas debates, wrote Lincoln had a prominently held in life. Their looks were “gawky figure, an odd-featured, as if each was an actor supplied by a wrinkled, inexpressive, and altogether Hollywood studio’s department of central uncomely face.” casting. When Stephan A. Douglas called Einstein, despite his brilliance, could Lincoln “two-faced,” Lincoln replied: “I 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 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

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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 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.

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Fragments of History

50 Years of Beatlemania, Part 2 Victor Parachin t’s been 50 years since The Beatles arrived on American soil. Here, some more interesting anecdotes from the history of The Fab Four.

George Harrison helps create his rivals, The Rolling Stones. In 1963, as The Beatles were beginning to make a name for themselves in England, The Rolling Stones were a completely unknown group playing weekly in the Crawdaddy Club in Surrey, England. The Beatles visited the club and had some private time with members of The Rolling Stones one evening. Later, George Harrison was part of a panel judging musical groups in Liverpool. He told fellow panelist Dick Rowe about The Rolling Stones, advising him to sign them for Decca Records. “As I had turned down The Beatles, I didn’t want to make the same mistake again,” Rowe recalled.

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time. Eventually, the group was taken off the plane with a forklift and whisked off to the safety of their hotel. At the coliseum they had a 12,000capacity audience for both shows. After each show, they were quickly rushed back to their hotel in an armored van. Breaking up is hard to do. The breakup of The Beatles came gradually. The first to leave the band was Ringo Starr in 1968, but he reconsidered and returned a few months later. The following year (1969), John Lennon left the group but agreed not to make his exodus public because the group was releasing their last album, Abbey Road, in a few weeks. In 1970 Paul McCartney left the group, promptly released a solo album, and announced that The Beatles had broken up. That announcement irritated Lennon, who felt McCartney used the breakup announcement to promote his new solo album. As questions about the band breakup emerged, Lennon said, “I started the band. I disbanded it. It’s as simple as that.” Although each of The Beatles went their separate ways, their music continues to resonate with people, continues to be played regularly on radio stations, and continues to attract new generations of fans. Though they broke up decades ago, their names are still instantly recognizable. The Beatles are gone, but the music remains.

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secure participants helps to prevent them buildings, in spite of her attempts to from descending too quickly or losing build up her stamina. control. When her physician was on vacation, Nerves were not a factor because she was able to see another doctor who Charlesworth knew that she would be reviewed her profile, discussed what was strapped in and secure as she scaled her going on, and had blood work done way down the Fulton Bank Building in before sending her straight to the downtown Harrisburg. hospital. Gaudenzia, a treatment The very next day, center that offers drug and Charlesworth had an alcohol treatment emergency colectomy programs in Pennsylvania, surgery to remove a Maryland, and Delaware, tumor for stage-three sponsored the rappelling colon cancer. event to raise money for “I was actually their organization. glad,” said “I just wanted to Charlesworth—not for accomplish the 18-floor the cancer diagnosis, task,” she said. “I listened but to know what the to the trainers, and the real issue was and that Charlesworth, right, with a focus was just getting to her instincts had been friend at the 2012 Hershey Half the floor.” completely accurate. Marathon. Learning this was her And Charlesworth is Plus, she was friend’s first half marathon, relieved that there was Charlesworth ran at her pace to determined that others a legitimate reason she help her get to the finish line. benefit from her experiences—not just had been pushing battling colon cancer, but herself at the gym also enduring a yearlong misdiagnosis. without seeing any results. A former business analyst, she After surgery, Charlesworth went through weekly chemotherapy for a year. organized a community health seminar on managing your own health in Camp The treatments ravaged her immune Hill in the early 1990s, which exceeded system, leaving her sometimes couchher expectations with a turnout that was bound and unable to move. standing-room only. As someone who thrives on liveliness “It was wonderful. I want to do more and exercise, the days of inactivity were community health seminars; that is one especially irritating. It was during this of the dreams I am going to accomplish time that Charlesworth set a goal of this year,” she said. running a marathon when she was Charlesworth’s other goal for the near recovered. future is to complete a triathlon. Though For her 59th birthday, rappelling was the adventure of choice. admittedly a mediocre swimmer, she said Rappelling allows a person to make a she will still “make it happen.” controlled descent down a rope from a Charlesworth hopes to inspire others cliff—or, in Charlesworth’s case, the side to give sports and regular exercise a try. of a building. The equipment used to “It’s all up to you,” Charlesworth said.

“Think about it; are you unkind to yourself when you go to a fitness center and think others are critical of you? Think again. Are you critical of others? I am impressed with anyone who does what they want to feel better and look great. “You might be sore since your body hasn’t experienced exercise in a while,” she said. “Instead of complaining, laugh and smile about it. Know that you will

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

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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’ consumerfriendly 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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get past the soreness and benefit from it.” Charlesworth has two daughters and five grandchildren. In fact, she completed a race with her grandson, exposing him to the camaraderie of running communities. “Be with others,” she said. “They will inspire a routine. There are running clubs who are pleased to have newbies on board. You don’t have to run at the pace they do; just be there.”

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