March-April 2014 Newsletter

March
April
2014 Newsletter
Issue #2
Legacy Corps
Winter & Spring
Inside this issue:
From the Coordinator
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Up and Coming!
1
Did You Know?
1
To Nap or Not?
2
Our Place
2
Skinny on Fruit Juice
3
Caregiving’s Health...
3
Unscramble!
3
A Laugh A Day
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When to Call 911?
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Notes from the Coordinator
Day-light savings time!
Anticipation of spring!
I hope that Mother Nature is listening. Just
think… it will be light
out until at least 7:00
PM. The sun begins to
feel a little warmer.
The sap buckets have
been hung and pancake
breakfast events are
popping up all over.
and karo because it was
too expensive, but then
I was introduced to the
‘real’ thing and honestly, there is no going
back! Can you just picture it? A stack of pancakes with the butter
melting into the cake
and beautiful, sweet,
amber syrup slowly
dripping down the sides
to be devoured within
As a child, I never knew moments. It’s a great
anything about ‘real’
way to shake off those
syrup. It was that stuff winter blues. There are
in the cute Aunt Jemima lots of open houses and
bottle. Later I use to
breakfasts offered. You
make it with flavoring can also get an oppor-
tunity to pick up some
other wonderful maple
produces.
While you have those
clocks down springing
a head in time, use this
time as a reminder to
replace the batteries in
smoke detectors and
carbon monoxide
alarms.
I had a report that the
robins are out and before you know it, the
crocus will be popping. Happy
Spring!
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Did You Know?
Up and Coming!
10:00am-12:00pm
Public Safety Building
March 27th — Religious Diversity in Elder Care — Rm B.
April 24th — Finding Balance
@ Sr. Housing Community
Room
May 29th — TBS
280 Phoebe Lane, Delhi, NY
When tomatoes were brought over from the new world in
the 1500’s, Europeans thought they were poisonous because rich people would eat them off of pewter plates and
then die. It was found later that lead from the pewter
would seep into the tomatoes and end up killing the eater!
The link between carrots and good vision stems from a lie told by
the British army during World War 2. The Brits didn’t want anyone to know why they were so good at shooting
down enemy bombers at night, so they spread a
rumor that their troops were eating a ton of carrots. In truth, they were covering for top secret
airborne radar.
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“When you start to wonder whether you can trust someone or not, that is when you already know you don’t.” — Unknown
To Nap or Not?
Sleep is made up of two
cycles, one is REM sleep
and the other non-REM.
These cycles occur all
during the time one is experiencing normal sleep.
Generally there are five to
seven of these cycles during the seven to eight
hours that we normally
sleep. Non-REM sleep is
the more restful, but both
are required for our sleep
to be normal.
method to restore alertness and psycho-motor
activity when it is failing as when one becomes
drowsy while driving a
car. It is prudent to pull
over at a safe place and
take a brief emergency
nap. The last and most
common for those of us
aging, is the habitual nap,
a nap that is part of a routine and planned daily
many times a week. All
Unlike the prolonged nor- types of naps are useful
mal sleep at night, a nap is and have a place for us in
a much shorter period of our healthy aging.
sleep that ranges usually Naps clearly are effective
between ten and 40
"tonics" for the tiredness
minutes and most often
that many older people
occurs during the day.
experience during the day.
Naps are not long enough If kept to a reasonable
to include all the stages of length they do not lead to
normal sleep, and do not insomnia at night and
include REM sleep. How- convey some reduced inever, naps confer many of cidence of heart disease,
the healthful properties of to name just one benefit.
normal night sleep. Most They also make us more
importantly they make us alert and able to carry on
more alert, give us stami- with planned activities.
na, and actually improve However, if the naps are
our activities such as driv- too long - over 40 minutes
ing. Naps are essential if - we can suffer from
we are sleep deprived, but "sleep inertia" after awakthey can be part of a nor- ing. This is a condition
mal sleep pattern each
where we remain sleepy,
day, if not prolonged. The perhaps briefly disorientideal nap is usually 20 to ed and less able to carry
out complex activities.
30 minutes.
Sleep inertia passes after
There are three types of
naps according to the Na- about an hour, so it is a
tional Sleep Foundation. temporary problem.
The first is planned napping that involves taking a
nap prior to planned loss
of sleep, like a long trip or
going our for a late evening. The second is emergency napping and is a
Bottom line, try to get
sleep - it is good for you
as you get older. Napping
is a proven good
strategy to get sleep
and stay healthy.
So just do it.
— http://www.muschealth.com/healthyaging/napping.htm
Our Place
Winter has been a bear but our participants have diligently come out when the weather
has allowed. We are enjoying the programs that
Cheryl Starcher Ceresna has been offering to us
through Eat Smart,“MyPlate” and Cornell Cooperative
Extension. Cheryl has assisted in planning and cooking a meal once a month. She is also going to help us
with starter plants for our garden box in the spring.
The group has a lot of fun working together for the
common meal prep. February’s lunch menu included
several different quiche and salads. The plan for the
March meal is pasta primavera!
Wilma Hannon, owner of Danny’s Restaurant, treated the group to one of her signature soups and sandwich fixings one afternoon.
We had Greg Graupmann, (one of Our Place’s
Dream Team Advisors) bring in the family puppy,
Laurence, who he and his grandchild, Madison, have
been training to become a seeing eye service dog.
Laurence recently passed all his tests. Congratulations
to Greg, Madison, and Laurence for all their diligent
work!
We’ve had several of Our Place clients stay home due
to winter illness. We hope they are beginning to feel
better and able to join us soon. We also suffered the
loss of Peg Constable on February 26th. Peg was a
great supporter of Our Place and loved crafts. She
helped out with jewelry and items to sell at the ACS
Harvest Festival and PTA Christmas Craft Fair. After
a hospital stay earlier in 2013 she made each of the
people that looked in on her and helped her to stay
positive, a pendent and earrings of angels. She greatly
appreciated all the friends she has made while at Our
Place. She will be sorely missed.
We look forward to upcoming events such as a visit
from Heart of the Catskills Humane Society, making
spring wreaths, the cosmetology students from
BOCES, a jewelry and accessories swap and DEC
golden eagle project presentation.
If you are interested in attending Our Place or as a
caregiver would like to try Our Place out for your
loved one, please call Kit @ 607.746.6333 or Patsy @
607.746.5175. (Scholarships are available for those
that qualify.)
24 Hour Helpline: 800.272.3900
www.alzneny.org
Email: [email protected]
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Caregiving’s Health Benefits
Naveed Sattar, professor
of Metabolic Medicine,
and Dr. Jason Gill, both
of the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences at the University of
Glasgow in Scotland, call
for the UK government to
change the current "five a
day" guideline to exclude
a portion of fruit juice
from the list of fruits and
vegetable servings that
count toward it.
appears linked either to
reduced or neutral risk for
diabetes, high fruit juice
intake is linked to raised
risk for diabetes.
In their paper, published
in The Lancet Diabetes &
Endocrinology, they propose that including fruit
juice as one of the five a
day is "probably counterproductive," because it
leads people to consider
fruit juice as a healthy
food that does not need to
be limited, as is the case
with less healthy foods.
Also, although fruit juices
contain vitamins and minerals that are mostly absent in sugar-sweetened
drinks, the levels of nutrients in fruit juices many
not be enough to offset
the unhealthy effect that
excessive consumption
has on metabolism, says
Dr. Gill.
Fruit juice has come under the spotlight since
medical experts recently
started looking more
closely at the link between high sugar intake
and the risk for heart disease.
"One glass of fruit juice
contains substantially
more sugar than one
piece of fruit; in addition,
much of the goodness in
fruit - fiber, for example is not found in fruit juice,
or is there in far smaller
amounts," he adds.
In their paper they refer
to a trial where participants drank half a liter of
pure grape juice every
day for 3 months. And
the results showed that
despite grape juice's high
antioxidant properties, it
led to increased insulin
resistance and bigger
waists in overweight
adults.
Dr. Gill says, "There
seems to be a clear misperception that fruit juices and smoothies are low- Of course, the juice in the
sugar alternatives to sugar study refers to mostly
-sweetened beverages."
prepared juice as bought
Fruit juice is not a lowfrom the grocery store
sugar alternative to sugar- shelves. Fresh-squeezed
juice produced in your
sweetened drinks.
He says research is begin- home is
ning to show that unlike better for
you than
solid fruit intake, for
which high consumption the prepared stuff!
— http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/272438.php
A new US study led by
Johns Hopkins researchers
contradicts long-standing
beliefs that the stress of
caregiving leads to early
death and instead shows
that family caregivers live
around 9 months longer
than non-caregivers.
Commenting on the findings, Dr. Roth says:
"Taking care of a chronically ill person in your
family is often associated
with stress, and caregiving
has been previously linked
to increased mortality
rates. Our study provides
important new information
on the issue of whether
informal family caregiving
responsibilities are associated with higher or lower
mortality rates as suggested by multiple conflicting
previous studies."
The study compared over
3,500 family caregivers
with a matched number of
non-caregivers and found
that providing care for a
chronically ill or disabled
family member not only
failed to increase health
risk, but was also tied to
an 18% lower risk of death
over the 6-year period of
the study.
The data for the study
came from a cohort of
over 30,000 people, aged
45 years or older who took
part in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke
(REGARDS) study.
The researchers carefully
matched caregivers with
non-caregivers using a
measure based on 15 common variables covering
the usual demographics,
such as age, sex and education, plus health history
and health behavior.
But, he suggests if extreme stress can be managed or avoided, caregiving may actually bring
health benefits for both the
caregiver and the person
they are caring for, including an increase in life expectancy for the caregiver.
— http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/267491.php
Try to unscramble
these Spring-related
words!
1. MAWR
2. NARI
3. NSHINESU
4. IABWRON
5. TERAH YDA
6. PORCS
7. RILPA
8. YMA
9. NEUJ
10. HTOMRSE AYD
11. ETLM
12. DNYIW
13. RMTSO
14. RWOHSE
15. LOBOSM
16. DSUB
17. SWOLFRE
18. NPALNGIT
19. SMSLOBOS
1) WARM; 2) RAIN; 3) SUNSHINE; 4) RAINBOW; 5) EARTH DAY; 6) CROPS; 7) APRIL; 8)
MAY; 9) JUNE; 10) MOTHERS DAY; 11) MELT; 12) WINDY; 13) STORM; 14) SHOWER; 15)
BLOOMS; 16) BUDS; 17) FLOWERS; 18) PLANTING; 19) BLOSSOMS
“It hurt because it mattered.” — John Green
The Skinny on Fruit Juice
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“Friendship has no survivor value; it’s one of those things that give value to survival.”— C.S. Lewis
Delaware County
Office for the Aging
6 Court Street, Delhi , NY 13753
Phone: 607.746.6333
Fax: 607.746.6227
Website: www.legacycorps.org
Email: [email protected]
Have a Laugh!
A father passing by his son's bedroom was astonished
to see the bed was nicely made and everything was
picked up. Then, he saw an envelope, propped up
prominently on the pillow. It was addressed, ‘Dad’.
With the worst premonition, he opened the envelope
and read the letter, with trembling hands.
Dear Dad,
It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm
writing you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend,
because I wanted to avoid a scene with Mum and
you.
I've been finding real passion with Stacy. She
is so nice, but I knew you would not approve of her
because of all her piercings, tattoos, her tight Motorcycle clothes, and because she is so much older than
I am.
But it's not only the passion, Dad. She's pregnant. Stacy said that we will be very happy. She owns
a trailer in the woods, and has a stack of firewood
for the whole winter. We share a dream of having
many more children.
Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn't really hurt anyone. We'll be growing
it for ourselves and trading it with the other people in
the commune for all the cocaine and ecstasy we
want.
In the meantime, we'll pray that science will
find a cure for AIDS so that Stacy can get better. She
sure deserves it!
Don't worry Dad, I'm 15, and I know how to
take care of myself. Someday, I'm sure we'll be back
to visit so you can get to know your many grandchildren.
Love, your son, Joshua.
P.S. Dad, none of the above is true. I'm over at Jason's house. I just wanted to remind you that there
are worse things in life than the school report that's
on the kitchen table. Call when it is safe for me to
come home!
When to Call 911?
When he was young, my
brother called 911. When
pressed later on as to why,
his response was, ‘I just
wanted to see what would
happen.’
Of course, as adults we
know better, but there are
an increasing amount of
people calling 911 for frivolous reasons:
A Jacksonville, Florida,
man was so upset when a
sandwich shop left the special sauce off his hero that
he called 911… twice. The
first time was to ask if officers could make sure his
sandwich was made properly. The second time, to
complain that the cops
weren’t responding fast
enough to the first call.
A woman in Aloha, Oregon, called 911 because she
thought a deputy who had
just visited her house on a
complaint was goodlooking. After her neighbors reported a noise complaint, two sheriff's deputies knocked on Lorna
Jeanne Dudash's door. One
of them caught her eye.
When they left, Dudash
dialed 911 in a desperate
attempt to get the deputy
she described to dispatchers
as “a cutie pie” to return.
She said that she didn't
have an emergency; she
just wanted the dispatcher
to “throw the cute police
back her way”. The “cute”
deputy returned, and, once
he determined there was no
legitimate emergency, he
arrested Dudash for misus-
ing 911. She now faces a
fine of up to several thousand dollars and up to a
year in jail.
Angered that her local
McDonald's was out of
Chicken McNuggets, a
Florida woman called 911
three times to report the
fast food “emergency.”
Latreasa Goodman, 27,
called police to complain
that a cashier would not
give her a refund. When
cops responded to
the restaurant, Goodman
told them, “This is an
emergency. If I had known
they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given
my money, and now she
wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one.”
She was arrested and the
Police pressed charges for
misusing the 911 system.
So, what SHOULD you
call 911 for?
Here are questions to consider before calling:
1. Is the victim’s condition life or limb threatening?
2. Could the condition
worsen and become life
or limb threatening on
the way to the hospital?
3. Could moving the victim cause more injury?
4. Does the victim need
the skills/equipment of
paramedics or EMTs?
5. Would distance or traffic conditions delay the
victim getting to the
hospital?
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