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Come in for a
Good Laughter!
Dear Reader,
Welcome to the maiden edition of
SENIORS ROCK MAGAZINE, our
new bi-monthly magazine designed
especially for our Senior Citizens, their
families and Caregivers. The creation
of this new magazine is to create
humor, laughter and love for readers
who want to read, have some good
laughter and feel hopeful for being
part of the Senior Citizen Community.
Slowly I am walking towards the
Senior’s Hall of fame. I’m getting there
because every year my age counter
increases. When I turned 50 I said
to myself, “I am now a mini Senior”,
that’s if there is anything like that.
But in that moment of time, I felt the
need to do more for the Senior Citizen
Community.
After many years of being a Caregiver
and a Nursing Assistant, I’ve had many
and different encounters with Seniors
of all walks. To me, Caregiving isn’t
just a job, it is a calling. That is where
I get my energy from, to do more for
Seniors.
I want SENIORS ROCK MAGAZINE to
be entertaining and informative, at
times contrary, but above all useful.
To all Seniors out
there; AGE WITH
GRACE & PURPOSE”
I hope you enjoy this maiden edition.
Let me hear from you, your thoughts,
ideas, wisdom and do let me know if
there are any topics you’d like to see
covered in the future. Join the new fun
magazine in town, SENIORS ROCK...
Yes indeed they rock!
My name is Peace Bennett and I am a
mini Senior.
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CONTENTS
THE SEVEN AGES OF LOVE 6
Best Tips to Prevent Aging
Even if you don’t consider yourself a senior just
yet, you are still aging. “We start aging when
we are born,” says Moreno. So anyone can take
simple steps to look and feel better as the years
tick by. Dr. Moreno suggests easy changes that
you can make at any stage of your life to turn
back the hands of time.
His best tips for aging well? Moreno suggests
these three steps to feel better and get healthy:
Maintain a healthy weight.
Your weight plays a key role in controlling the
factors of aging. Get to a healthy number on
the scale and stay there.
Stay hydrated with water.
Your body is craving it more than you realize.
Water is critical to maintaining your energy
level and good daily health.
Move more.
Find an activity that you like and that helps
you to maintain a daily movement schedule
and stick with it.
Small changes can have a big impact. Try a
few of these healthy changes to improve your
health and well-being.
SHE ROCKS 8
HOW TO KEEP YOUR BRAIN YOUNG -
EVEN AS YOU GROW OLD
94-YEAR-OLD WIDOWER MADE A
SPLASH BY INSTALLING A POOL
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DALE SANDERS 16
CAN’T NOTHING BRING ME DOWN 18
JOKES 19
NEVER MESS WITH
SENIOR CITIZENS
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QUOTES 21
LET’S GET PUZZLE 22
CARE GIVERS CORNER 23
HOME HEALTH CARE LISTINGS 25
SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITIES
IN NEBRASKA
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THE
SEVEN
AGES OF
REFLECTS ON LOVE
IN LATER YEARS
By Joan Bakewell
When you're in your seventies, love has a long memory;
I grew up at a time when sex was secret, lives were
private and your parents didn't approve. Sex before
marriage was either fast and furtive, or romantically
dangerous. There was no pill but no Aids either. As
a young woman I knew little about my own body but plenty about
my troubled emotions. As a child during the war I saw the pain of
separation and loss. I grew up to the strains of "We'll Meet Again",
"Some Day I'll Find You" and Snow White's "Some Day My Prince Will
Come". I saw it as a search for an ideal: Mr Right. Mr Darcy. Big mistake.
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Then the hormones kicked in and I became
a sucker for DH Lawrence and the fire in the
blood. Emily Brontë's message was that tortured
passion was better than gentle loving. All this
led to turbulent times and love and sex became a
major pre-occupation. I read about it, fantasised,
saw the movies Brief Encounter, Gone with the
Wind but didn't do much about it.
All these years later I still carry traces of those
youthful ideas, though I don't brood on them
any more. I still believe that "Love is the sweetest
thing" and "All you need is love". Life has
taught me that popular culture's clichs express
profound human needs that do not change.
Love remains the most fundamental of human
emotions. When you're younger it's usually
about managing one-to-one relationships and
devotion to your children. As you get older it
comes into play in a million different ways from
good manners and small kindnesses to shared
laughter and good company. As such it is central
to my life.
The language has changed: it has got more raw,
more crude. "Making love" has given way to
"bonking" and "shagging". There is no shame
in using the f-word and the c-word. Comedy
and humour have become coarser; jokes are
eye-wateringly explicit. I don't protest at it
happening. But it isn't part of my world, I don't
use that sort of language and I can't help feeling
that the all-prevailing irony has damaged
tenderness. I like people to say what they mean:
my children and grandchildren are the ones who
tell me most often that they love me. But there
are others.
The films have changed, too. Although we have
had the romantic The English Patient and
Atonement we also have the explicit casual sex
of Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs and Patrice
Chreau's Intimacy. Again, I don't want such
explicit films banned or censored but I can't say
they move me. There can be a sense of "been
there, done that" in seeing young people having
sex. But sometimes it's more a case of "it's too late
now". Love and sex are not voyages of discovery
any more. I've long since arrived. And I'm more
convinced than ever that whatever you do with
your limbs and your body matters less than what
goes on in your head and your heart.
I came out of my second marriage some seven
years ago and have been living alone ever since.
It suits me. It has left me free to make immediate
choices for myself alone. With children grown
up and gone I can please myself entirely as to
what friendships and bonds I make and how I
behave both in public and private. And that's
what I do. Looking back now I can see that what
makes marriages endure is a mix of several
different things: a broad sharing of common
interests and outlooks; an agreement about how
you want your sex lives to be; and an ability to
weather the stormy seas of infidelity. I failed, in
the end, to sustain a proper combination of all
three. Now I don't have to any more. Mrs Patrick
Campbell spoke of the "hurly-burly of the chaise
longue... giving way to the deep deep peace of the
marriage bed." I have gone further. I called my
autobiography The Centre of the Bed. I have it all
to myself.
There's no denying the body grows slack and
slow. The joints begin to creak, the back to
grumble. But that has to do with ageing, not with
loving. The loving stays young. Older people will
always tell you that inside they feel just as they
always did, and it's true. That's why it's a shock
to catch your reflection in the shop window, or to
hear yourself referred to as an old boot. Among
ourselves, the 70-year-olds are as lively and frisky
as ever we were.
Of course, the leaping flame of lust leaps less
often. Instead, I value the golden glow of long
friendships and attachments, the blossoming
of new. I look around and judge the happiest
of my friends to be those with long and stable
marriages. But I also notice the growing
popularity of a new arrangement among the old:
it's known as "together apart". Two they may be
widowed or divorced discover a growing bond
between them. It develops and soon they are
holidaying together, sharing outings and even
bed. But they remain living in their separate
homes. It seems to work. It saves all the tensions
of shared living, avoids the financial and social
rearrangements of moving in together, and it
doesn't trespass on the past.
As I grow older I perceive love in a different
context altogether. I have seen love at its most
intense and beautiful when someone is dying.
This may not fit the clichs of "sex and love" as
we live it. But to witness one partner falling into
a decline and the other giving selfless devotion
throughout the illness is to see love in action. It
seems an odd thing to say, but love gathers with
passion and intensity around many a deathbed.
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk
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SHE
ROCKS
Her name is
Betty White.
She is a senior
and she ROCKS
On January 17th, 1922, in Oak Park, Illinois,
the future television icon was born Betty
Marion White, the only child of homemaker
Christine Tess (née Cachikis) and lighting
company executive Horace Logan White. In her
autobiography If You Ask Me (And of Course You
Won't), White explained her parents named her
"Betty" specifically because they didn't like many
of the nicknames derived from "Elizabeth." Forget
your Beths, your Lizas, your Ellies. She's Betty.
One thing they don't tell you about growing old—
you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And
it's true. I don't feel Ninety Six years old. I simply
am Ninety Six years old.
"You are still putting up with me."
BETTY WHITE'S EMMYS SPEECH
Was Incredibly Inspiring and Hilarious
"Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Thank
you. I’m just going to quit while I'm ahead! Oh,
my goodness, goodness, goodness. This is very
exciting. I thought the biggest, most exciting night
I had ever had, I'm talking to Lorne Michaels now,
was the night that he gave me an honor. But boy,
you topped yourself tonight, Lorne.
(She stops to let Alec Baldwin kiss her hand.) You
think i'm going to miss a chance when I get it?
Somebody said something the other day about
'First Lady of Television.' And I took it as a big
compliment. And then I heard her talking to
her daughter a little later, she said, ‘First lady,
yes, she's that old, she was the first one, way, way
back.’ But little did I dream then that I would be
here. It's incredible that I'm still in this business,
that I'm still -- and you are still putting up with
me.
No, I’m thanking you. It's incredible that you can
stay in a career this long and still have people put
up with you. I wish they did that at home. I want
to thank Lorne Michaels for doing not only this
tonight, but all the wonderful things he's done
with me -- no, for me. And all I can say is, it's such
a blessed business to be in, and how lucky can I
be, and how much I say, thank you to each and
every one of you. Thank you so much."
Long live Betty White! I MAY BE A SENIOR, SO
WHAT? I AM STILL
HOT & I ROCK!
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COMING SOON
Personality
THE
Senior
OF THE EDITION

Brain
Young
(EVEN AS YOU GROW OLD)
HOW TO
KEEP YOUR
Once a heavy drinker and smoker, my 84-year-old father
was never a good candidate for living a long life. But he’s
remained mentally sharp through four bouts of cancer
and a litany of other health complaints, while my younger
and (seemingly) healthier mother suffered from dementia
and died four years ago. What gives?
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Well, my dad spends time every
day doing brain teasers called
Crypto-quips—puzzles that require
deciphering complex letter codes.
After he retired from work, he
took language classes, traveled
abroad, played bridge, performed
in an amateur theatre company,
and volunteered regularly in the
local senior center. Despite painful
arthritis, he still dances two times a
week with friends and takes regular
walks.
If researchers are right, my father
has (inadvertently) followed some
of the best practices for battling
mental decline. New studies are
pointing to ways one can slow, and
in some cases reverse, the memory
loss, distractibility, and other
cognitive deficits that often come
with advancing age. Here are three
of the key findings for how to keep
your brain fit.
1. EXERCISE!
You know how your doctor is
always telling you to get a moderate
amount of exercise to stay healthy?
Well now there’s evidence that
exercise not only helps your heart
and lungs, but it also might improve
your brain.
In a 2008 review of more than
50 scientific studies, researchers
Arthur Kramer and Kirk Erickson
found that regular aerobic exercise
improved brain functioning for
healthy people and those with
mild cognitive impairments. In
particular, those brain functions
associated with “executive
control”—such as multi-tasking,
planning, and problem solving—
were most affected by exercise.
Even moderate walking two-tothree
times a week over a six month
period was enough to produce
positive results. In one study,
brain imaging results revealed
that patients in the early stages
of Alzheimer’s disease who were
more aerobically fit had less brain
atrophy than those who were less
fit.
“Aerobic walking, riding a bike
or using a stationary bike, or
swimming—anything that sustains
your heart rate at 65 percent of
its maximum capacity or greater
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for up 30 minutes—appears to
be neuroprotective”—meaning
it protects your brain—“and will
decrease your chances of getting
other diseases too,” says Kramer.
But how does it work? According
to Kramer, exercise enhances
neuroplasticity—the brain’s
ability to grow new neural and
blood flow pathways in response
to stimulation and learning. The
greater the brain’s reserve of neural
pathways, the better it can respond
to strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, or
head traumas from falls, which all
become more likely as you age.
Researchers need more information
before they will more fully
understand the relationship
between exercise and brain
function, says Kramer. For
example, it isn’t clear yet if there
is a ‘dose response,’ where more
exercise equates to better cognitive
health, or whether slacking off
on an exercise program changes
the equation. Still, Kramer is
convinced that exercise is central to
maintaining brain health.
2. BE SOCIAL
Researchers have long known that
having social connections helps
protect against the negative impacts
of aging. But not until recently have
they been able to show a direct link
between social activity levels and
the brain.
In a 2007 study, Valerie Crooks, a
researcher with Kaiser Permanente,
assessed 2,200 women over a
four-year period, looking for
signs of mental decline while
evaluating their degree of social
connection. Her study found that
women who had a larger social
network and daily social contact
had a substantially lower risk of
developing dementia, even when
she factored in age and hormone
use.
In a similar study, Robert Wilson
of Rush University’s Alzheimer’s
Disease Center in Chicago found
that people who felt lonely were
more likely to develop dementia.
Wilson and his group followed
a group of 80-year-old patients
with no signs of dementia and
assessed their loneliness, memory
loss, and confusion levels every
year for four years. For every one
point increase on their loneliness
measurement scale, the risk of
developing dementia increased 51
percent over that period. Even when
patients had many social contacts,
feeling lonely led to mental decline,
suggesting that the quality of social
interactions may be more important
than the quantity.
“Our results are consistent with
other studies which show that
negative emotions are related to
the development of dementia and
cognitive decline in old age,” says
Wilson.
Interestingly, when Wilson’s group
looked at the brain autopsies of
subjects who died during their
study, they found that some people
who hadn’t reported feeling lonely
still showed plaques or tangles in
their brains—the physiological
hallmarks of Alzheimer’s—without
actually developing the symptoms
of dementia, such as memory loss
and confusion. In other words,
having positive social connections
may have protected them from
Alzheimer’s dementia, even though
their brain’s physiology seemed
to leave them vulnerable to it.
Although researchers are still trying
to figure out this phenomenon,
Wilson thinks that having good
social connections over time may
somehow build up overall brain
functioning, so that one part of the
brain can take over if another part
becomes damaged.
Joining a group, taking a class, or
scheduling regular visits and phone
calls with friends and family can all
help build these social connections.
The same goes for doing volunteer
work, which may carry added
benefits: According to preliminary
results from a recent study by Sei
Lee at the University of California,
San Francisco, presented this past
May at the annual meeting of the
American Geriatrics Society, people
who volunteered lived longer, even
after considering other factors,
like socioeconomic status, chronic
health conditions, and cognititive
function.
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3. STIMULATE YOUR
BRAIN—EVEN WITH
VIDEO GAMES
There is now ample scientific
evidence that keeping your mind
active is good for brain health. But
what’s the best way to do that?
Recent studies show that computerbased
exercises designed to improve
brain function have been effective
at increasing memory, information
processing, reasoning, attention,
and problem solving skills among
elderly participants. In some
studies, successful training in one
skill area (e.g., short-term memory)
led to improvements in areas
not covered in the training (e.g.,
executive control), suggesting that
training benefits may “generalize”
to multiple brain functions and
improve overall cognitive health.
Capitalizing on this research,
several companies have sprung up
to market the idea of “brain fitness”
to aging Baby Boomers. Though
many, such as Lumosity, have based
their programs on neuroscience
research, not all have done the
rigorous testing needed to show
their programs work.
Posit Science, founded by
neuroscientist Mike Merzenich, is
an exception. Posit has developed
two computer-based training
programs for seniors designed
to increase the speed and
accuracy of how they process
auditory and visual
information. The auditory program
(IMPACT) has been tested in large,
clinical trials around the country
and has been shown to improve
not only auditory processing
speed and accuracy, but related
skills like memory and attention.
Similar results have been found for
the visual program, though using
smaller study populations.
“The benefits of our training
programs are substantial,” says
Merzenich. “If you are 70 and your
brain is operating like a typical
70 year old, you can train with
our program, and your scores on
cognitive tests will improve to levels
you’d find in a 59-year-old brain.”
That may be true, but some
researchers are still skeptical.
“We just don’t know enough about
how these programs work,” says
Arthur Kramer. Although he
recently co-authored his own study
using a video game to improve
cognitive function in the elderly,
he remains cautious, noting that
“there are still relatively few studies
of computer-based products.”
Denise Park, a researcher at the
University of Texas, agrees. But she
has an additional concern about
computer-based training programs:
that seniors won’t maintain
interest in them long
enough to reap the
benefits.
“It may be very possible
that engaging in fun,
novel
activities may be as stimulating, or
more stimulating, than computer
training,” says Park.
Evidence from another recent study
may support Park’s hypothesis.
Robert Wilson monitored more
than 700 elderly participants for
five years and found that those who
reportedly engaged in everyday
mentally-stimulating activities—like
reading the paper, visiting a library, or
playing checkers or chess—were less
likely to have cognitive impairment,
and were less than half as likely to
develop the dementia symptoms
of Alzheimer’s disease. Even
when researchers considered the
participants’ past levels of education
and socio-economic status, being
mentally engaged later in life still
seemed critical to reducing the risk of
dementia.
The challenge
So, will all this research actually
compel people to do what it takes to
keep their brains fit?
“Let’s face it, some people hate to
exercise, even when they know it
helps,” says Kramer. He argues that,
as we age, we tend to slow down
and get sore joints, which makes it
even harder to build up the will to
exercise. But Kramer believes that
communicating how exercise benefits
the brain may help motivate people to
change their lifestyles.
Mezernich of Posit Science suggests
another possible incentive: economic
interest. He envisions a time when
health insurance companies will
pay people, either directly or
through reduced insurance rates,
to participate in programs like his,
assuming they will reduce the need
for costly health care down the road.
Personally, I don’t need further
convincing, especially after
having one parent die of dementia.
Chances are I may be living even
longer than my dad, perhaps into
my 90s. And since I want to keep my
mind active even as my body ages, I’m
already trying to stay physically active,
keep my friends close, and give my
brain a regular work out.
But I think I’ll leave the Crypto-quips
to my dad.
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By Jill Suttie
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94 -YEAR-OLD
WIDOWER
MADE A SPLASH
BY INSTALLING A POOL IN HIS YARD FOR
NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS
When Keith Davison’s wife Evy died last year of
cancer after 66 years of marriage, his house
felt lonely. It was a big house, and with his
children grown and moved out, it felt “very,
very quiet,” Davison said.
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So the retired trial judge had an
idea. His neighborhood in Morris,
Minn., had a lot of kids but no
swimming pool. Davison, an avid
swimmer, and his wife had bought
the house in 1991, and they had
considered putting one in the back
yard but had never gotten around
to it. “When we were in our 60s we
thought of it, but we didn’t think
we’d live this long,” he said.
Now, at 94, he thought, why not?
Running the idea by some
neighborhood kids clinched it.
“They were so excited about it,
because they knew I’d let them
in, and I decided, ‘That’s enough
incentive right there.’ ”
So in the spring, construction began
on a 32-by-16-foot heated pool,
complete with diving board, and in
July it was done.
Now, on sunny days, Davison’s yard
is rarely quiet. About 5 to 10 local
kids are there, swimming and
diving. “There’s a lot of noise and
splashing about, and that’s good,”
he said.
In fact, people I haven't talked to
in years call “and congratulate
me on having a pool.” He has met
neighbors he hardly knew before
and grown closer with the ones he
did know.
Neighbor Jessica Huebner said
when she first heard of the plan, she
didn’t think he was serious. “I was
just thinking, it’s fun to talk, but at
the age of 94 would you really do it?”
When Davison said it was going to
be for all the neighborhood kids,
including her four children, “That’s
when it really sank in. I was like,
wow. You just don’t have that in
today’s society, that amount of
kindness.”
Huebner said she has already seen
ripple effects among adults, as well
as children, as they gather there.
“As a neighborhood we’re getting
out of our day-to-day routines to
make the time to visit with each
other and get to know each other,”
she said. “(Davison) says it’s just a
pool, but it’s not just a pool; it’s so
much more than that.”
The pool was not cheap to install,
but Davison’s home insurance
company said his premium would
not go up. And he is strict about
safety.
“I have a set of rules, of course,
being a lawyer,” he said (he is also
a pilot and plays tuba in three local
bands). There are no lifeguards,
so children 12 or under must come
with a parent or grandparent, and
anyone under 18 must have an adult
present.
“Even an adult in there shouldn’t be
there by themselves,” he said.
Davison is exempt from that rule,
however, thanks in part to his age.
“I go in by myself,” he admitted with
a chuckle. “If I had a heart attack
and died in the pool, what a way to
go. It certainly beats cancer.”
Magda Jean-Louis contributed to
this report
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Dale
Sanders
PENSIONER, 83, CELEBRATES BECOMING OLDEST MAN TO
WALK ENTIRE LENGTH OF APPALACHIAN TRAIL IN A YEAR
There was a moment back
in August when Dale “Grey
Beard” Sanders considered
giving up.
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In the middle of the 100-Mile
Wilderness in Maine, far from
help, he was bleeding internally
and having heart palpitations - not
surprising considering that he
was 50 or 60 years older than most
of the people he had met on the
Appalachian Trail.
Sanders called his wife in Bartlett,
Tennessee, and she urged him
to keep going. With a go-ahead
from his doctors, he did, and on
Thursday, Sanders, 82, officially
became the oldest person to hike
the entire 2,190-mile trail in a year.
He walked much of it alone, but
for the last mile, ending at the
Appalachian Trail Conservancy
headquarters in Harpers Ferry,
West Virginia, Sanders was joined
by friends, family and hikers -
including a pair of dogs - he had met
along the trail.
At the end of it, he danced a jig.
“I feel euphoric!” he said. “I keep
thinking, is someone going to come
out of the woodwork and say, 'Uhuh,
I hiked it last year... and I was
83' - but no one has stepped up and
said that.”
“Someone said to me, 'You can't do
it, the only way an old person's going
to be able to hike the Appalachian
Trail is if they've hiked it before.'
That challenged me.”
Sanders had completed
other impressive feats.
A couple of years
ago, he paddled
the length
of the
Mississippi River. He broke the
record for underwater breathholding
in 1959 and was IUSA
spearfishing athlete of the year
in 1965. But he had never done a
hike lasting more than two weeks.
For this one, which he started in
Georgia in January, he was on the
trail for a total of seven months.
The best comment
from one of them
was, 'I want to
be like you when
I'm your age,' ” he
said. “That kept
me going.
He is, incidentally, two years older
than the Appalachian Trail, which
was officially “connected” in 1937,
meaning people could hike it in its
entirety from Georgia to Maine.
Sanders hiked it in a “flip-flop”
sequence, meaning he did a Georgiato-Harpers
Ferry leg, followed by a
Maine-to-Harpers Ferry leg.
A naturally gregarious person,
Sanders had periods of depression
while alone on the trail. He was
helped by what he calls “trail
angels,” people who recognized him
from seeing him on the Internet,
who called out his trail name - “Grey
Beard” - and hiked alongside him
for a stretch. (Sanders' long beard is
white, but he named himself after a
Cherokee Indian chief he admires.)
“The best comment from one of
them was, 'I want to be like you
when I'm your age,' ” he said. “That
kept me going.”
The majority of his fellow hikers
were in their 20s. They didn't have
to keep track of blood pressure
medication or the two different kinds
of eye drops that Sanders needs for
glaucoma.
“As older people, we have a great deal
more challenges,” he said. Injuries
take longer to heal, including the
hip he injured in a fall on Kinsman
Mountain in New Hampshire that
took two months to stop hurting.
During the hike, he wore a tracker
so people at home could locate his
position. He fell “about 100 times”
along the rocky, mountainous trail,
but only the Kinsman Mountain fall
was serious.
“A few times I played the age card,
I admit, and it worked every time. I
didn't hitchhike, I flagged cars down,
and I told them my story and they
said, 'Get in.'”
Sanders' personal story includes a 50-
year career as a Parks and Recreation
programme administrator. He spent
his boyhood on a Kentucky tobacco
farm, worked as a lifeguard and was
a circus acrobat and cotton-candy
seller.
“He always did acrobatics,” said his
sister, Elaine Bush of Nashville, one of
several family members celebrating
with him in Harpers Ferry; his wife,
a daughter and son-in-law, and two
grandchildren also came. “He was
always in the limelight, because he
was unusual and he did unusual
things.”
Sanders takes 30-inch steps, so he
figures he took 4,625,256 steps for the
hike. Along the way, he passed tens of
thousands of white blazes that mark
the trail. When he passed the last one
on Thursday, he stopped, took off his
cap, and kissed it.
A few yards later, at the conservancy
headquarters, he hugged his wife and
accepted a glass of sparkling cider.
And with all the honesty that 82 years
affords a man, he announced his next
move.
“I'm done, and I'm tired,” he said. “And
I can go home.”
The Washington Post
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CAN'T
NOTHING
BRING ME
DOWN
It’s nothing short of inspirational to have the opportunity
to speak with Ida Keeling, a 102-year-old
world-record-holding runner and author of Can’t
Nothing Bring Me Down, a riveting memoir in bookstores
this month.
Keeling’s story is filled with incredible
eyewitness accounts of
key moments in American history,
including growing up during the
Great Depression, serving as a leader
in the civil rights movement and
raising four children on her own in
a single-room apartment while she
worked at a factory. Keeling also
shares the great sadness of her life,
the brutal murders of her two sons
when she was in her 60s. It was that
low point in her life that actually got
her to put on her running shoes
after her daughter suggested
that running might offer her
solace in her grief.
Keeling entered her first race
when she was 67, set a second
world record at 95 and is the
first woman in history to
complete a 100-meter run at
the age of 100. Just days ago,
on February 24, Keeling set a
world record in the 60-meter
dash event at the Imperial Dade
Track Classic hosted by Urban
Athletics with an impressive
race time of 58:34 in the 100
to 104 age group.
We sat down with Keeling,
who was recently profiled
in the HBO documentary If
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You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast,
to find out what keeps her
going strong.
If you could speak to every single
reader of your book, what would
you tell them?
I would say that I hope it’s a wonderful
experience reading my book. I
hope readers get some new experiences
and old age thoughts and feelings
and what
happened
back then
and all
that
kind of
stuff. I
also hope that they take away
how good exercise is. Exercise and
strengthening yourself, and staying
alert and focused, is so important.
I want readers to pay attention to
what they’re doing.
What was it about running that
helped you so much?
When I lost two of my sons two
years apart, I can’t even describe
how that felt. So, when my daughter
suggested I go running because
maybe it would make me feel better,
I decided to try it. I went on that
run, and soon enough, did another
and another. Running felt so good.
I would come home after exercising
and felt like it relieved me of
some stress and bad feelings. After
all these years, I can tell you that
running is a good way to way to feel
better, mentally and physically. You
have to look where you’re running,
you have to pick up your feet and all
that kind of stuff.
I hear you can still do push-ups?
Yes. I have arthritis now, so
I’ve got these aches and
pains, but I can still
do them. I have my
bike, my mat and my
weights and I use
them. I like to keep
moving.
What’s the most
important advice
you want to
share with our
readers?
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Jokes
LET'S HAVE
A GOOD LAUGHTER
"I'm speeding because I have to
get there before I forgot where I'm
going."
COLD, COLD DAY
On a very cold, snowy Sunday in
February, only the pastor and one
farmer arrived at the village church.
The pastor said, 'Well, I guess we
won't have a service today.' The
farmer replied: 'Pastor, even if only
one cow shows up at feeding time, I
feed it.'
THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL
The boy listened closely as the
rabbi read the Bible. 'May I ask
a question?' he asked. 'Sure. Go
ahead. Ask your question,' replied
the rabbi. 'Well, the Bible says that
the children of Israel crossed the
Red Sea-the children of Israel built
the temple-the children of Israel did
this and the children of Israel did
that. Didn't the grown-ups ever do
anything?'
"HIGH SCHOOL
CLASSMATE"
While waiting for her first
appointment in the reception
room of a new doctor, a woman
noticed the doctor's medical school
certificate on the wall, which bore
his full name.
Suddenly, she remembered that a
tall, handsome boy with the same
name had been in her high school
some 45 years ago.
Upon seeing him, however, she
quickly discarded any such thought.
This balding, gray-haired man with
the deeply lined face was too old to
have been her classmate.
After her exam, she asked him if he
had attended the local high school.
"Yes," he replied.
"When did you graduate?" she
asked
He answered, "In 1965."
"Why, you were in my class!" she
exclaimed.
He looked at her closely and then
asked, "What did you teach?"
SENIOR PERSONAL ADS
Male, 1932, high mileage, good
condition, some hair, many new parts
including hip, knee, cornea, valves.
Not in running condition but walks
well.
Recent widow who has just buried
fourth husband looking for someone
to round out a six-unit plot. Dizziness,
fainting, shortness of breath not a
problem.
Active grandmother with original
teeth seeking a dedicated flosser to
share rare steaks, corn on the cob,
and caramel candy.
Sexy, fashion-conscious, blue-haired
beauty, 80’s, slim, 5’4 (used to be 5’6)
searching for sharp-looking, sharpdressing
companion. Matching white
shoes and belt a plus.
I usually remember Monday through
Thursday. If you can remember
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, let’s put
our two heads together.
I still like to rock, still like to cruise in
my Camaro on Saturday nights, and
still like to play the guitar. If you were
a groovy chick, or are now a groovy
hen, let’s get together and listen to my
eight-track tapes.
https://www.funny-jokes-quotessayings.com/senior-citizen-jokes.html
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NEVER
MESS
WITH SENIOR
CITIZENS
A
lady
decided to give
herself a big treat for
her 70th birthday by
staying overnight in a
really nice luxurious
hotel..
When she checked out the next morning, the desk
clerk handed her a bill for $250.00. She demanded to
know why the charge was so high "I agree it's a nice
hotel, but the rooms aren't worth $250..00 for just
an overnight stay - I didn't even have breakfast!" The
clerk told her that $250.00 is the 'standard rate,' and
breakfast had been included had she wanted it.
She insisted on speaking to the Manager.
The Manager appeared and, forewarned by the desk
clerk, announced: "This hotel has an Olympic-sized
pool and a huge conference center which are available
for use." "But I didn't use them." ''Well, they are here,
and you could have."
He went on to explain that she could also have
seen one of the in-hotel shows for which they
were so famous.
"We have the best entertainers from all
over the world performing here."
"But I didn't go to any of those
shows.." She Pleaded.
"Well, we have them, and you could
have." was the reply.
No matter what amenity the Manager
mentioned, she replied, "But I didn't use
it!" and the Manager countered with his standard
response.
After several minutes discussion, and with the
Manager still unmoved, she decided to pay, wrote a
check and gave it to him.
The Manager was surprised when
he looked at the check.
"But Madam, this check is for
only $50.00" "That's correct" she
replied "I charged you $200.00
for sleeping with me."
"But I didn't sleep with you
madam!" said the manager
"Well, too bad, I was here, and
you could have."
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QUOTES
Do Not Cast
Me Away
When I Am
Old; Do Not
Forsake Me
When My
Strength Is
Gone.
Psalm 71:9
Remember,
The dementia
patient is not
giving you a
HARD TIME.
The dementia
patient is
having a
HARD TIME!
We Don’t
Stop Playing
Because We
Grow Old.
We Grow Old
Because We
Stop Playing!
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Caregivers
Corner
THE CAREGIVER’S
PRAYER
Dear Lord,
Thank you for the call upon my life as a Caregiver.
And thank you for trusting me with the precious
role of caring for others.
Teach me to always remember I am doing your
work. Change my heart, O God, and give me
compassion to love and, especially those I give
care to, even when they are difficult to love and
not able to respond or reciprocate. Bless me with
your patience and understanding and give me
the needed strength to do what so often seems
impossible even as you help me extend your
love to all I touch. Empower me to continue to
be a channel and a source of strength to all the
beautiful men and women I give care to.
Please Lord, lift the burdens I feel today and let
me lift the spirits of those for whom I care for.
Change my attitude from a tired, frustrated and
angry caregiver to the loving and compassionate
one I want to be. Lighten up my face and never let
my smile or laughter become a frown. Help me to
discover the humor in unusual situations and not
take life so seriously.
Change my heart, O God, and give me compassion
to love others even when they are difficult to
love and are not able to respond or reciprocate.
Help me listen with my heart that I might feel
another's pain; Give me words that comfort and
bless and bring glory to your Name. Help me to
see that caregiving is not a heavy cross to bear,
but a precious opportunity to develop Christ's
image in me.
I pray Lord, you will give me the heart to know
that this isn't just a job but it is a calling. In Jesus'
mighty name I pray. Amen
By Peace Bennett
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE
AS A CAREGIVER
One of the highest forms of service in
our social obligations to mankind is
the caregiver.
What is a caregiver? It's one who
ministers to a person who cannot look
after him- or herself. It is a person
who selflessly helps those who cannot
function because of disabilities. It may
be one who looks after a person with
a stroke, a loved one with terminal
cancer or a mate with Alzheimer's.
It takes humility. There is nothing
that would attract our old Adamic
nature to this type of service. No one
is recommending the caregiver for a
special award. The caregiver will not
likely be named "Woman of the Year"
by a national magazine. The faithful
caregiver will not likely be featured on
"Making a Difference" on the evening
news. He or she is quietly going about
the duties of a nurse, a servant and an
encourages — all in one person.
Caregiving is not for the person who
must see something accomplished
immediately. Goal-oriented
individuals need not apply. It is
sometimes a long-term task with
little observable progress. It takes
perseverance; it takes tenacity and
steadfastness. It is not for the frivolous
or faint-hearted.
It take supernatural strength. It
cannot be done in the energy of the
flesh. It takes more than gritting
one's teeth and hanging on. The
caregiver's source is God himself who
"gives power to the faint and to them
that have no might, He increaseth
strength." The caregiver can rest
assured that the Lord Jesus is pleased
with his or her service to one of his
own creation.
One of the most difficult tasks in life
is being a caregiver for a loved one
with Alzheimer's. It may be a husband
who daily takes care of his wife, or a
wife who looks after her husband. It
may be a daughter looking after her
father or a son caring for his mother
or father.
It is so draining, so heartrending
to see a loved one's personality
robbed — see dignity stolen — by
this debilitating disease. Once the
person was the one you leaned upon,
looked to for guidance and strength.
You admired his hard work and
independence. You loved to hear her
laugh and be with her. But neither of
them are the person you used to know.
And this does something to the
caregiver. You often hear the joyous
first words of a baby and the laughter
when the baby takes a bath. But with the
caregiver of the Alzheimer's
patient, there is rarely a smile, only the
blank look of mental depression and
despair. The lights are on, but nobody's
home.
And yet there is the tenderness of a
dependent person, the moments when
he knows he is not thinking and acting
right. During these moments, he feels the
embarrassment of being confused and
helpless.
There also are times of selflessness when
she gives you a piece of custard pie that
she enjoys, but she wants you to have
it. And there is the tenderness of being
tucked into bed like a little child — and
loving it.
Caregivers are very special people who
need our prayers — and especially our
help. If you know someone who is going
through this kind of ordeal, give them a
break by volunteering to help them. You
will be remembered by the caregiver and
blessed by the Lord.
By Pastor Guy Templeton
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HOME HEALTH CARE
LISTINGS
All Midlands Health Services, Inc.
Omaha, NE
Phone (402) 391-5554
Beautiful Life Family Home Care
Omaha, NE
Phone 402-850-8438
Nebraska Home Healthcare, L.L.C.
Omaha, NE
Phone (402) 315-4357
Amakes Quality
Home Care Inc.
Omaha, NE
Phone (402) 884-1645
Ambi’s Home
Health Care, L.L.C.
La Vista, NE
Phone (402) 934-3441
Angels Care Home Health
Omaha, NE
Phone: (402) 934-4752
Bloom Companion Care
Omaha, NE
Phone (402) 342-3040
Bobette’s Home Care
Fremont, NE
Phone (402) 719-5645
Empower Home Care
Omaha, NE
Phone (402) 557-6869
Joy in Service Senior Home
Care Agency
Omaha, NE
Phone (402) 953-2144
Preciousone at
Home Senior Care
Omaha, NE
Phone 402 813 3444
Prime Home Care, L.L.C.
Omaha, NE
Phone (402) 390-2492
Samaritan Home
Health Care, Inc.
Omaha, NE
Phone (402) 417-0988
Willingham Health Services
Omaha, NE
Phone (402) 505-9511
It is not how much you do, but how
much love you put in the doing.
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SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITIES
IN NEBRASKA
LISTINGS
Esprit Whispering Ridge
Assisted Living Facility
17555 Emmet Street
Omaha, NE 68116
Phone: (402) 932-7300
Brighton Gardens of Omaha
Assisted Living Facility
9220 Western Avenue
Omaha, NE 68114
Phone: (402) 393-7313
Crown Pointe
Assisted Living Facility
2820 South 80th
Omaha, NE 68124
Phone: (866) 651-8791
Westgate Assisted Living
Assisted Living Facility
3030 South 80th Street
Omaha, NE 68124
Phone: (402) 391-8566
The Waterford at Roxbury Park
Assisted Living Facility
5728 South 108th St
Omaha, NE 68137
Phone: (877) 645-8901
Via Christe
Assisted Living Facility
3636 California Street
Omaha, NE 68131
Phone: (402) 551-5557
Bickford of Omaha - Hickory
Assisted Living Facility
7337 Hickory
Omaha, NE 68124
Phone: (402) 391-3000
Bickford of Omaha - Blondo
Assisted Living Facility
11308 Blondo
Omaha, NE 68164
Phone: (402) 491-0400
Fountain View Senior Living
Retirement Community
5710 S. 108th St
Omaha, NE 68137
Phone: (402) 596-9033
Aksarben Village
Retirement Community
1330 S 70th St
Omaha, NE 68106
Phone: (402) 810-9440
Hickory Villa Assisted Living
Assisted Living Facility
7315 Hickory Street
Omaha, NE 68124
Phone: (402) 392-0767
Heritage Pointe
Assisted Living Facility
16811 Burdette Street
Omaha, NE 68116
Phone: (402) 620-6006
Skyline
Assisted and Independent Living
7350 Graceland Drive
Omaha, NE 68134
Phone: (402) 572-5750
Parsons House on Eagle Run
Assisted Living Facility
14325 Eagle Run Drive
Omaha, NE 68164
Phone: (402) 498-9554
Life Care Center of Omaha
Assisted Living Facility
6032 VILLE DE SANTE DRIVE
Omaha, NE 68104
Phone: (402) 571-6770
Southview Heights
Assisted Living Facility
5110 South 49th Street
Omaha, NE 68117
Phone: (402) 731-2118
The Heritage at Legacy
Assisted Living Facility
2961 South 169 Plaza
Omaha, NE 68130
Phone: (402) 493-5807
Remington Heights
Retirement Community
12606 W Dodge Road
Omaha, NE 68154
Edgewood Vista - Omaha
Assisted Living Facility
17620 Poppleton Avenue
Omaha, NE 68130
Phone: (402) 333-5749
St Joseph Tower
Assisted Living
Assisted Living Facility
2205 South 10th Street
Omaha, NE 68108
Phone: (402) 952-5000
New Cassel
Retirement Center
900 N 90th St
Omaha, NE 68114
Phone: (402) 393-2277
Lakeside Village
Retirement Community
17475 Frances St
Omaha, NE 68130
Phone: (402) 829-9020
An Angel’s Touch
Assisted Living Facility
11405 Farnam Circle
Omaha, NE 68154
Phone: (402) 672-9580
Royal Oaks Assisted Living
Assisted Living Facility
4801 N 52nd St
Omaha, NE 68104
Phone: (402) 557-6860
Mercy Villa
Assisted Living Facility
1845 S 72nd St
Omaha, NE 68106
Phone: (402) 391-6224
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