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June 2014
Vol. 15 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 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 buildings, in spite of her attempts to build up her stamina. 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
Beyond the Beaches of Puerto Rico page 8
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Men’s Health Resources Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, Any suggestions on how can I get my 55year-old husband to see a doctor? He’s got some personal health issues he needs to address, but he’s stubborn and embarrassed and keeps putting it off. – Nagging Nancy Dear Nancy, When it comes to their health, many men take the John Wayne approach. They tough it out! That’s one of the reasons men die more than five years younger than women. Here are some facts and resources that may help you motivate your husband. The Facts In every stage of life—from infancy to the teen years to middle age—men (on average) are 40 percent more likely to get sick and die than women. (Current life expectancy for a man in the U.S. is 75.6
versus 80.8 for a woman.) Why? The reasons are complex; however, most experts agree that biology, such as the different ways men and women react to stress, likely plays a role. And men, taught since boyhood to be stoic in the face of pain, often are their own worst enemy, avoiding doctors and engaging in risky health behaviors like excessive alcohol consumption, unhealthy eating habits, reckless driving, and overexposure to sun, which all threaten health. Men’s health issues also get less public
attention and funding at a time when women’s health concerns (like breast cancer) are in the national spotlight. What to Do Doctors say that by paying attention to just a few key areas like blood pressure, cholesterol, waist size, and sexual function (which can be an early indicator of heart disease), men can make dramatic improvements for their overall health. If you’re having a difficult time getting your husband to see a doctor, try motivating him with relevant health information, including treatment
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options, along with the consequences of doing nothing. The Web is a good place to start, with a growing number of user-friendly resources dedicated to men’s health issues. Here are some good ones to check: Mayo Clinic: Provides a special men’s health section (www.mayoclinic.com/health/ mens-health/MY00394) that offers information on prostate health, sexual health, and diseases, including a multimedia section. 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 please see RESOURCES page 14
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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 please see GAFFES page 5
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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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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
Community Animal Hospital kazillion chips would appear on the eight from all the corners, split possibilities, and straight-up bets towering what seemed like a foot high. This required drastic measures to avoid a possible mathematical misadventure, or my job, so I once called over a pit boss — actually it was a shift manager passing through the pit — and in order to not look too much like a sap, I asked what he thought a particular payoff was. Pretending to know the correct payoff, he said, “Send out a dozen stacks, plus put a $5 chip and a 50-cent piece on the top.” I paid the bet as instructed. Although a patented move by another, it’s not a bad “go-to” action when this frazzled dealer of 10 minds couldn’t figure out a ginormous payout. No harm, no foul, is what he figured; plus, we always seemed to get back all the chips in the end anyway.
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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 look good without being good looking. Once our good looks begin to vanish, we have other resources to display: charm, kindness, knowledge, integrity, humor, and, as Eleanor Roosevelt has shown, a measure of wisdom. They are all part of looking good. There were times Abraham Lincoln depended on self-deprecating humor when campaigning for election. Henry Villard, a journalist who covered the Lincoln-Douglas debates, wrote Lincoln had a “gawky figure, an odd-featured, wrinkled, inexpressive, and altogether uncomely face.” When Stephan A. Douglas called Lincoln “two-faced,” Lincoln replied: “I leave it to the audience. If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one?” This retort scored “Father Abraham,” as he was called by those who saw in him a biblical image, election points that otherwise may have been denied him because of his lack of good looks. Comic Jimmy Durante and physicist Albert Einstein were not handsome. Yet people found them appealing because their appearance matched the public’s image—expectations for the roles each prominently held in life. Their looks were as if each was an actor supplied by a Hollywood studio’s department of
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central casting. Einstein, despite his brilliance, could not grasp his public popularity. He wondered why “no one understands me but they like me anyway. I don’t understand it.” Our faces have to be compatible with the stereotypical image the public has of certain professions. Would Jimmy Durante look credible as a worldrenowned scientist and would Albert Einstein find popular support as a comedian? Would a movie entitled Strange Love Affair have a chance as a box-office success if it starred “Groucho” Marx and Elizabeth Taylor? Our looks, good or not, support or limit us in our destined roles in life. Richard Nixon is said to have lost voter appeal in his 1960 televised debate with presidential candidate Jack Kennedy. It was not due to Nixon’s discussion of the issues, which he handled quite well. He lost appeal because of his whisker stubble, commonly called a “five o’clock shadow” in the jargon of the 1960s. To some, the stubble made him look unpresidential, somewhat malevolent. Roles in life are determined largely by more than just our bodies. It is our image in its entirety, including our clothing style down to the type of eyeglasses we wear. Doesn’t a Franciscan monk receive more public reverence when garbed in a brown robe, or isn’t a doctor given more credibility when wearing a white medical jacket? Imagine them both in t-shirts and jeans. As we enter our senior years, we should give more attention to an appropriate dress style. It makes us feel better and raises the favorability quotient for how we are perceived by others. Physical attractiveness need not be limited entirely to the young. Several famed movie stars retained a visage appeal—if not their sex appeal—as they turned elderly. Jimmy Stewart, Cary 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. please see GOOD LOOKS page 11
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Traveltizers
Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel
Beyond the Beaches of Puerto Rico By Andrea Gross t’s Sunday afternoon, and I’m in the mountains of central Puerto Rico, munching barbecued pork under a tin roof. “This reminds me of Sundays when I was a child,” says our guide. “Except instead of eating in a lechonera [restaurant specializing in pork], we ate in my grandmother’s kitchen.” She heaps some arroz on my plate. The rice is seasoned with sofrito [onions, garlic, and peppers] and has a yellow color and nutty flavor from annatto seeds. It’s a plain, hearty meal, the kind the grandmothers of Puerto Rico have been serving for generations. Puerto Rican meals are a unique blend of European, African, and Latin American flavors. While the early inhabitants of the island survived on corn, fruit, and fish, their diet expanded when the Spaniards came in the early 1500s, bringing with them pigs and cattle as well as wheat, rice, and olive oil.
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The seeds of the annatto plant are responsible for the yellow color of Puerto Rican rice. They also add a slightly nutty flavor.
Later, when the Africans arrived, people learned to combine these foods into exotic dishes, such as pasteles [meat, green banana, and spices wrapped in plantain leaves] and mofongo [fried plantain stuffed with pork or seafood]. The grandmothers suddenly had more options. I take second helpings of pork and arroz, all the while tapping my feet in rhythm with the high-energy salsa music that drifts in from outside. I feel as if I’m at a neighborhood party as children play in the street, adults gossip with friends, and almost everybody over a certain age sips frosty piña coladas, the deceptively innocent drink that was dubbed the official beverage of Puerto Rico in 1978. Like most visitors to the island, we had whiled away our first days in Puerto Rico strolling on the beach, wiggling our toes in the warm sand, and taking occasional dips into the water. But we knew that Puerto Rico is more than the sun, rum, and grand hotels that line the coast. It also has a vibrant
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culture in the interior, one that is most easily experienced through a relatively new series of “epicurean pilgrimages” or “themed trails.” Therefore, thoroughly stuffed by our pig-feast on La Ruta del Lechón [The Trail of the Pig], which had taken us into the high country south of San Juan, we opt for a caffeinated high by going on La Ruta del Café. This brings us to Ciales, a small town in the mountains west of San Juan. Coffee has been produced in this area since the early 1700s. Don Pello Maldonado, the thirdgeneration coffee roaster at Café Don Pello, teaches us how to curl our hands around a cup of steaming brew, sniff deeply, and sip slowly in order to detect subtle differences in aroma and taste. Then he tests our newfound knowledge by serving us cups of several top-ranked coffees. Without prodding, each person on the tour chooses his or her favorite. The winner: Puerto Rico’s Alto Grande, one of only three coffees in the world to be designated as “superpremium.” It’s so rarefied that it’s been served in the Vatican for more than 200 years. The next day we return to San Juan and, having become enamored of Puerto Rican flavors, start our day at the century-old La Bombonera Restaurant. There we treat ourselves to some traditional mallorcas [a sugar-coated pastry, eaten plain, with butter or, more frequently, filled with a combination of meat, egg, and cheese]. www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
We accompany the pastries with acerola juice, which comes from a tropical berry known for being rich in vitamins. I trust the health benefits of acerola will compensate for the indulgences of mallorcas! Afterward we walk through the old parts of town, where the colors of the Caribbean overwhelm the senses. The buildings, painted in hues of turquoise, gold, and salmon, have arched doors and handsome grillwork and are often adorned with bougainvillea. We pass the historic Fort El Morro and there, across the bay, is the Bacardi Rum Distillery. While Ponce de Leon never found the fabled Fountain of Youth, he brought a fountain of rum to the island, and that may have been equally appreciated. In the 600 years since he governed Puerto Rico, rum has become central to its economy. Over the next few days we try rum with mint and lime [a mojito], with cola and lime [a Cuba libre], and with pineapple and coconut [a piña colada]. We even convince a bartender to make us a coquito, which is a creamy coconutand-rum concoction that’s generally only served during Christmas and New Year’s. But with its bright colors, good food, coffee, and rum, every day in Puerto Rico is like a holiday. www.seepuertorico.com Photos © Irv Green unless otherwise noted; story by Andrea Gross (www.andreagross.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 came awfully close to to wait to find out. needing it, but First, he was sent to somehow I managed San Pedro, Calif. There to get through it.” he boarded a Liberty When the plane ship for a 10-week trip landed in Chongqing, across the Pacific, with China, Shearer and 12 stops in Tasmania and other men were Ceylon (now Sri assigned to an outpost Lanka) before arriving camp bordering the at Calcutta, India, on Gobi Desert on one New Year’s Eve. side and Inner There he boarded a Mongolia on the C-47 for a hazardous other, beyond the flight over “The Great Wall of China Hump,” the plane and about 40 miles Radioman First Class climbing to 17,000 west of the Japanese John R. “Jack” Shearer, feet to clear the force’s westernmost home from China in 1946. mountains. What was outpost. that like? Called Camp 4, it “Well,” he says, “it was plenty bumpy, was one of a dozen camps in China that and we had people using their ‘barf ’ bags were among the best-kept secrets of the left and right. I didn’t have one, and I war. They were primarily weather
stations created through a pact with China called SACO (Sino-American Cooperative Organization). Camp 4 occupied a large, walled Catholic mission just outside the town of Shenpa (now Xamba) that was 800 miles north of Chongqing. The three residents of the mission, a priest and two nuns, had been moved to smaller quarters for the duration. The camp was the northernmost of the SACO camps. Importantly, it was 400 miles north of Tokyo’s latitude and was an excellent site for gathering radio intelligence and monitoring the weather upwind from Japan and the Philippines. Getting to the camp, however, would prove to be an experience. It took the men five entire months of travel by ancient Chinese trucks from headquarters in Chongqing, 1,500 miles to the south. The rickety Chinese trucks were constantly breaking down.
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“And,” Shearer says, “I often wondered if we would ever make it to our camp.” How did everything work out, once you were there? “It really didn’t,” Shearer laughs. “The temperature went from more than 100 F in the summer to minus 30 F in the winter. Sandstorms were common, and there was no running water. We got our water from a well and had to boil it to make it potable. “Our generators soon were beyond repair, and all of us took turns cranking the small hand generator to send our seven daily radio contacts with radio Chongqing and one with Peking (now Beijing). We provided weather information that was relayed to U.S. ships in the Pacific. That information was important to their planning assaults on Japan and the parts of China occupied by the Japanese.” How was the food? “We lived off the land,” he says. “We could buy chicken, eggs, and ‘yellow rice’
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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.”
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locally. But But, when you ate the you got vegetables at there, it was your own just a peril. The scattering of locals huts with fertilized with nothing to human waste, do or see. So and eating there was the vegetables really no they grew point in produced going.” Jack Shearer on the horse issued to him lots of The two at his remote base in primitive China. diarrhea. years in the “The camp worst problem, though, was the bugs. seemed like an eternity, but it finally They were everywhere. There were passed. Shearer says one thing of interest cockroaches in our hair, lice in our about the grim two years was that clothes, and bedbugs in our bedding. suffering through it with him was a There was no way to get rid of them … medical doctor named Henry Heimlich, they were always with us. That was true who later won national acclaim for for the whole two years I was there.” developing the Heimlich maneuver that Was there anything to see? saves people who are choking on food “Nope … nothing. There were some lodged in their windpipe. small villages, and we each had a horse. Did the Chinese food help him
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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Fruit and Vegetable Vouchers Available The York County Area Agency on Aging, in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, is again offering the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program to eligible York County seniors. This program provides $20 in vouchers to eligible seniors to buy fresh fruit and vegetables from participating local farm markets. York County residents who are 60 years of age or older and who have a gross annual 2014 household income at or below $21,590 for a single person or $29,101 for a couple are eligible to participate. All income is included when calculating total gross income. Proof of age and York County residency must be shown to obtain vouchers. A Farmers Market Proxy Form, along with proof of age and residency, is required for anyone picking up vouchers for another eligible individual. The proxy form is available at most senior centers or can be downloaded from the www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
Forms & Documents page of the Agency on Aging’s website (www.ycaaa.org). Individuals are eligible to receive the vouchers only once per calendar year. The vouchers can be redeemed between June 1 and Nov. 30. Residents of nursing homes, personal care facilities, or any residential setting that offers meals are ineligible to receive the vouchers. Vouchers will be distributed from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the following York County locations, or as long as the voucher supply lasts: May 29 – Dillsburg Senior Activity Center, 1 N. Second St., Dillsburg
June 3 – Susquehanna Senior Center, 2427 Craley Road, Lower Windsor Township June 4 – Windy Hill on the Campus Senior Center, 1472 Roth’s Church Road, Suite 103, Spring Grove June 5 – Heritage Senior Center, 3700 Davidsburg Road, Dover Township June 6 – Red Land Senior Center, 736 Wyndamere Road, Newberry Township June 10 – White Rose Senior Center, 27 S. Broad St., York June 12 – Delta Area Senior Center, 5 Pendyrus St., Suite 1, Delta July 8 – Hanover Council of Churches, 136 Carlisle St., Hanover
July 10 – Red Lion Area Senior Center, 20-C Gotham Place, York Township July 15 – White Rose Senior Center, 27 S. Broad St., York July 17 – Hanover Hospital Wellness & Education Center, 400 York St., Room 1-B, Hanover July 22 – Brown’s Orchards & Farm Market, 8892 Susquehanna Trail South, Springfield Township July 23 – Flinchbaugh’s Orchards, 100 Ducktown Road, York July 29 – Yorktown Senior Center, 509 Pacific Ave., York July 31 – Red Lion Area Senior Center, 20-C Gotham Place, York Township Anyone requiring further information should contact the York County Area Agency on Aging at (717) 771-9610.
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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. MedlinePlus (www.nlm.nih.gov/med lineplus/menshealth.html): This comprehensive health site links users to men’s health resources from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control,
and other government and health-related organizations. It provides easy-to-find information on hundreds of diseases and conditions, along with extensive information on medications and links to thousands of clinical trials. It also offers a senior-specific health site (nihseniorhealth.gov) that makes agerelated health information easy to get. Prostate Cancer Foundation (www.prostatecancerfoundation.org): Provides comprehensive information on risk factors, detection and screening,
diagnosis and treatment, questions to ask the doctor, and guidelines on how to live with the disease. Men and Depression (www.menand depression.nimh.nih.gov): Part of the National Institute of Mental Health, this site offers personal stories from men suffering from depression as well as the signs and symptoms, treatment, and when and how to seek help. FamilyDoctor.org (www.family doctor.org/men.xml): The American Academy of Family Physicians’
consumer-friendly site allows users to search by symptoms for possible diagnosis, suggestions for self-care, and when it might be necessary to see a doctor. It also offers help finding a family doctor by zip code, a body mass index calculator, and sections on subjects ranging from prostate health to athlete’s foot. Jim Miller is a regular contributor to the NBC Today show and author of The Savvy Senior Book. www.savvysenior.org
Calendar of Events
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York County Department of Parks and Recreation
Senior Center Activities
Pre-registration is required for these programs. To register or find out more about these activities or any additional scheduled activities, call (717) 428-1961.
Crispus Attucks Association – (717) 848-3610, www.crispusattucks.org
June 1, 2:30 to 4 p.m. – Nesting Birds Program, Nixon County Park
Delta Area Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 456-5753, www.deltaseniorcenter.com
June 15, 2:30 to 4 p.m. – Father’s Day Nature Ramble, Nixon County Park
Dillsburg Senior Activity Center – (717) 432-2216
York County Library Programs
Eastern Area Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 252-1641
Collinsville Community Library, 2632 Delta Road, Brogue, (717) 927-9014 Tuesdays, 6 to 8 p.m. – Purls of Brogue Knitting Club
Golden Visions Senior Community Center – (717) 633-5072, www.goldenvisionspa.com
Glatfelter Memorial Library, 101 Glenview Road, Spring Grove, (717) 225-3220 Mondays, 6 to 8 p.m. – Knitting and Spinning Group
Heritage Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 292-7471, www.heritagesrcenter.org
Programs and Support Groups
Northeastern Senior Community Center – (717) 2661400, www.mtwolfborough.com/NSCC.htm
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June 3, 7 p.m. Surviving Spouse Socials of York County Faith United Church of Christ 509 Pacific Ave., York (717) 266-2784
June 14, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 15, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aviation Days York Airport 6054 Lincoln Highway West, Thomasville (717) 654-3871
June 6, 10:30 a.m. Partners in Thyme Herb Club of Southern York County Meeting Glenview Alliance Church 10037 Susquehanna Trail South, Glen Rock (717) 428-2210
June 19, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Alzheimer’s Support Group Senior Commons at Powder Mill 1775 Powder Mill Road, York (717) 741-0961
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Simple Steps Can Lower Cataract Risk It may be surprising to learn that by age 80, more than half of all Americans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery. A cataract is a clouding of the lens in the eye that affects vision, and most are related to aging. The lens is a clear part of the eye that helps to focus light, or an image, on the retina. The retina is the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye. There are several steps you can take to lower your risk for cataract. Get Regular Eye Exams Be sure to have regular comprehensive eye exams. If you are age 60 or older, you should have a comprehensive, dilated eye exam at least once a year. Eye exams can help detect cataracts and other age-related eye problems at their earliest stages. In addition to cataract, your eye-care professional can check for signs of age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and other vision disorders. For many eye diseases, early treatment may save your sight.
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June is Cataract Awareness Month Quit Smoking Ask your doctor for help to stop smoking. Medications, counseling, and other strategies are available to help you. Wear Sunglasses Ultraviolet light from the sun may contribute to the development of cataracts. Wear sunglasses that block ultraviolet B (UVB) rays when you’re outdoors. Take Care of Other Health Problems Follow your treatment plan if you have diabetes or other medical
Maintain a Healthy Weight If your current weight is a healthy one, work to maintain it by exercising most days of the week. If you’re overweight or obese, work to lose weight slowly by reducing your calorie intake and increasing the amount of exercise you get each day. Choose a Healthy Diet Choose a healthy diet that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables. Adding a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables to your diet ensures that you’re getting a lot of vitamins and nutrients. Fruits and vegetables are full of antioxidants, which in theory could prevent damage to your eye’s lens. Studies haven’t proven that antioxidants in pill form can prevent cataracts. But fruits and vegetables have many proven health benefits and are a safe way to increase the amount of vitamins in your diet.
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When her physician was on vacation, she was able to see another doctor who reviewed her profile, discussed what was going on, and had blood work done before sending her straight to the hospital. The very next day, Charlesworth had an emergency colectomy surgery to remove a tumor for stage-three colon cancer. “I was actually glad,” said Charlesworth—not for the cancer diagnosis, but to know what the real issue was and that her instincts had been completely accurate. Plus, she was relieved that there was a legitimate reason she had been pushing herself at the gym without seeing any results. After surgery, Charlesworth went through weekly chemotherapy for a year. The treatments ravaged her immune system, leaving her sometimes couchbound and unable to move. As someone who thrives on liveliness and exercise, the days of inactivity were especially irritating. It was during this time that Charlesworth set a goal of running a marathon when she was recovered. For her 59th birthday, rappelling was the adventure of choice. www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
Rappelling allows a person to make a controlled descent down a rope from a cliff—or, in Charlesworth’s case, the side of a building. The equipment used to secure participants helps to prevent them from descending too quickly or losing control. Nerves were not a factor because Charlesworth knew that she would be strapped in and secure as she scaled her way down the Fulton Bank Building in downtown Harrisburg. Gaudenzia, a treatment center that offers drug and alcohol treatment programs in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware, sponsored the rappelling event to raise money for their organization. “I just wanted to accomplish the 18floor task,” she said. “I listened to the trainers, and the focus was just getting to the floor.” And Charlesworth is determined that others benefit from her experiences—not just battling colon cancer, but also enduring a yearlong misdiagnosis. A former business analyst, she organized a community health seminar on managing your own health in Camp Hill in the early 1990s, which exceeded her expectations with a turnout that was standing-room only. “It was wonderful. I want to do more
community health seminars; that is one of the dreams I am going to accomplish this year,” she said. Charlesworth’s other goal for the near future is to complete a triathlon. Though admittedly a mediocre swimmer, she said she will still “make it happen.” Charlesworth hopes to inspire others to give sports and regular exercise a try. “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 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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