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Editorial Come in for a Good Laughter! To all Seniors out there; AGE WITH Dear Reader, GRACE & PURPOSE” Welcome to the maiden edition of4 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. 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. senior’s rock magazine

CONTENTSBest Tips to Prevent Aging THE SEVEN AGES OF LOVE 6 SHE ROCKS 8Even if you don’t consider yourself a senior just HOW TO KEEP YOUR BRAIN YOUNG - 10yet, you are still aging. “We start aging when EVEN AS YOU GROW OLDwe are born,” says Moreno. So anyone can take 94-YEAR-OLD WIDOWER MADE A 14simple steps to look and feel better as the years SPLASH BY INSTALLING A POOLtick by. Dr. Moreno suggests easy changes that DALE SANDERS 16you can make at any stage of your life to turn CAN’T NOTHING BRING ME DOWN 18back the hands of time. JOKES 19 NEVER MESS WITH 20His best tips for aging well? Moreno suggests SENIOR CITIZENSthese three steps to feel better and get healthy: QUOTES 21 LET’S GET PUZZLE 22Maintain a healthy weight. CARE GIVERS CORNER 23 HOME HEALTH CARE LISTINGS 25Your weight plays a key role in controlling the SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITIES 26factors of aging. Get to a healthy number on IN NEBRASKAthe scale and stay there. 5Stay hydrated with water.Your body is craving it more than you realize.Water is critical to maintaining your energylevel and good daily health.Move more.Find an activity that you like and that helpsyou to maintain a daily movement scheduleand stick with it.Small changes can have a big impact. Try afew of these healthy changes to improve yourhealth and well-being. senior’s rock magazine

SETVHEEN 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.6 senior’s rock magazine

Then the hormones kicked in and I became up and gone I can please myself entirely as toa sucker for DH Lawrence and the fire in the what friendships and bonds I make and how Iblood. Emily Brontë's message was that tortured behave both in public and private. And that'spassion was better than gentle loving. All this what I do. Looking back now I can see that whatled to turbulent times and love and sex became a makes marriages endure is a mix of severalmajor pre-occupation. I read about it, fantasised, different things: a broad sharing of commonsaw the movies Brief Encounter, Gone with the interests and outlooks; an agreement about howWind but didn't do much about it. you want your sex lives to be; and an ability to weather the stormy seas of infidelity. I failed, inAll these years later I still carry traces of those the end, to sustain a proper combination of allyouthful ideas, though I don't brood on them three. Now I don't have to any more. Mrs Patrickany more. I still believe that \"Love is the sweetest Campbell spoke of the \"hurly-burly of the chaisething\" and \"All you need is love\". Life has longue... giving way to the deep deep peace of thetaught me that popular culture's clichs express marriage bed.\" I have gone further. I called myprofound human needs that do not change. autobiography The Centre of the Bed. I have it allLove remains the most fundamental of human to myself.emotions. When you're younger it's usuallyabout managing one-to-one relationships and There's no denying the body grows slack anddevotion to your children. As you get older it slow. The joints begin to creak, the back tocomes into play in a million different ways from grumble. But that has to do with ageing, not withgood manners and small kindnesses to shared loving. The loving stays young. Older people willlaughter and good company. As such it is central always tell you that inside they feel just as theyto my life. always did, and it's true. That's why it's a shock to catch your reflection in the shop window, or toThe language has changed: it has got more raw, hear yourself referred to as an old boot. Amongmore crude. \"Making love\" has given way to ourselves, the 70-year-olds are as lively and frisky\"bonking\" and \"shagging\". There is no shame as ever we were.in using the f-word and the c-word. Comedyand humour have become coarser; jokes are Of course, the leaping flame of lust leaps lesseye-wateringly explicit. I don't protest at it often. Instead, I value the golden glow of longhappening. But it isn't part of my world, I don't friendships and attachments, the blossominguse that sort of language and I can't help feeling of new. I look around and judge the happiestthat the all-prevailing irony has damaged of my friends to be those with long and stabletenderness. I like people to say what they mean: marriages. But I also notice the growingmy children and grandchildren are the ones who popularity of a new arrangement among the old:tell me most often that they love me. But there it's known as \"together apart\". Two they may beare others. widowed or divorced discover a growing bond between them. It develops and soon they areThe films have changed, too. Although we have holidaying together, sharing outings and evenhad the romantic The English Patient and bed. But they remain living in their separateAtonement we also have the explicit casual sex homes. It seems to work. It saves all the tensionsof Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs and Patrice of shared living, avoids the financial and socialChreau's Intimacy. Again, I don't want such rearrangements of moving in together, and itexplicit films banned or censored but I can't say doesn't trespass on the past.they move me. There can be a sense of \"beenthere, done that\" in seeing young people having As I grow older I perceive love in a differentsex. But sometimes it's more a case of \"it's too late context altogether. I have seen love at its mostnow\". Love and sex are not voyages of discovery intense and beautiful when someone is dying.any more. I've long since arrived. And I'm more This may not fit the clichs of \"sex and love\" asconvinced than ever that whatever you do with we live it. But to witness one partner falling intoyour limbs and your body matters less than what a decline and the other giving selfless devotiongoes on in your head and your heart. throughout the illness is to see love in action. It seems an odd thing to say, but love gathers withI came out of my second marriage some seven passion and intensity around many a deathbed.years ago and have been living alone ever since.It suits me. It has left me free to make immediate Source: https://www.independent.co.ukchoices for myself alone. With children grownsenior’s rock magazine 7

RSHOECKS Her name is Betty White. She is a senior and she ROCKSOn January 17th, 1922, in Oak Park, Illinois, (She stops to let Alec Baldwin kiss her hand.) Youthe future television icon was born Betty think i'm going to miss a chance when I get it?Marion White, the only child of homemakerChristine Tess (née Cachikis) and lighting Somebody said something the other day aboutcompany executive Horace Logan White. In her 'First Lady of Television.' And I took it as a bigautobiography If You Ask Me (And of Course You compliment. And then I heard her talking toWon't), White explained her parents named her her daughter a little later, she said, ‘First lady,\"Betty\" specifically because they didn't like many yes, she's that old, she was the first one, way, wayof the nicknames derived from \"Elizabeth.\" Forget back.’ But little did I dream then that I would beyour Beths, your Lizas, your Ellies. She's Betty. here. It's incredible that I'm still in this business, that I'm still -- and you are still putting up withOne thing they don't tell you about growing old— me.you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. Andit's true. I don't feel Ninety Six years old. I simply No, I’m thanking you. It's incredible that you canam Ninety Six years old. stay in a career this long and still have people put up with you. I wish they did that at home. I want\"You are still putting up with me.\" to thank Lorne Michaels for doing not only this tonight, but all the wonderful things he's doneBETTY WHITE'S EMMYS SPEECH with me -- no, for me. And all I can say is, it's suchWas Incredibly Inspiring and Hilarious a blessed business to be in, and how lucky can I be, and how much I say, thank you to each and\"Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Thank every one of you. Thank you so much.\"you. I’m just going to quit while I'm ahead! Oh,my goodness, goodness, goodness. This is very Long live Betty White! I MAY BE A SENIOR, SOexciting. I thought the biggest, most exciting night WHAT? I AM STILLI had ever had, I'm talking to Lorne Michaels now,was the night that he gave me an honor. But boy, HOT & I ROCK!you topped yourself tonight, Lorne.8 senior’s rock magazine

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HOW TOYoBuraningKEEPYOUR (EVEN AS YOU GROW OLD)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 demen- tia and died four years ago. What gives?10 senior’s rock magazine

Well, my dad spends time every for up 30 minutes—appears to with no signs of dementia and day doing brain teasers called be neuroprotective”—meaning assessed their loneliness, memory Crypto-quips—puzzles that require it protects your brain—“and will loss, and confusion levels every deciphering complex letter codes. decrease your chances of getting year for four years. For every one After he retired from work, he other diseases too,” says Kramer. point increase on their loneliness took language classes, traveled measurement scale, the risk of abroad, played bridge, performed But how does it work? According developing dementia increased 51 in an amateur theatre company, to Kramer, exercise enhances percent over that period. Even when and volunteered regularly in the neuroplasticity—the brain’s patients had many social contacts, local senior center. Despite painful ability to grow new neural and feeling lonely led to mental decline, arthritis, he still dances two times a blood flow pathways in response suggesting that the quality of social week with friends and takes regular to stimulation and learning. The interactions may be more important walks. greater the brain’s reserve of neural than the quantity. pathways, the better it can respond If researchers are right, my father to strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, or “Our results are consistent with has (inadvertently) followed some head traumas from falls, which all other studies which show that of the best practices for battling become more likely as you age. negative emotions are related to mental decline. New studies are the development of dementia and pointing to ways one can slow, and Researchers need more information cognitive decline in old age,” says in some cases reverse, the memory before they will more fully Wilson. loss, distractibility, and other understand the relationship cognitive deficits that often come between exercise and brain Interestingly, when Wilson’s group with advancing age. Here are three function, says Kramer. For looked at the brain autopsies of of the key findings for how to keep example, it isn’t clear yet if there subjects who died during their your brain fit. is a ‘dose response,’ where more study, they found that some people exercise equates to better cognitive who hadn’t reported feeling lonely 1. EXERCISE! health, or whether slacking off still showed plaques or tangles in on an exercise program changes their brains—the physiological You know how your doctor is the equation. Still, Kramer is hallmarks of Alzheimer’s—without always telling you to get a moderate convinced that exercise is central to actually developing the symptoms amount of exercise to stay healthy? maintaining brain health. of dementia, such as memory loss Well now there’s evidence that and confusion. In other words, exercise not only helps your heart 2. BE SOCIAL having positive social connections and lungs, but it also might improve may have protected them from your brain. Researchers have long known that Alzheimer’s dementia, even though having social connections helps their brain’s physiology seemed In a 2008 review of more than protect against the negative impacts to leave them vulnerable to it. 50 scientific studies, researchers of aging. But not until recently have Although researchers are still trying Arthur Kramer and Kirk Erickson they been able to show a direct link to figure out this phenomenon, found that regular aerobic exercise between social activity levels and Wilson thinks that having good improved brain functioning for the brain. social connections over time may healthy people and those with somehow build up overall brain mild cognitive impairments. In In a 2007 study, Valerie Crooks, a functioning, so that one part of the particular, those brain functions researcher with Kaiser Permanente, brain can take over if another part associated with “executive assessed 2,200 women over a becomes damaged. control”—such as multi-tasking, four-year period, looking for planning, and problem solving— signs of mental decline while Joining a group, taking a class, or were most affected by exercise. evaluating their degree of social scheduling regular visits and phone Even moderate walking two-to- connection. Her study found that calls with friends and family can all three times a week over a six month women who had a larger social help build these social connections. period was enough to produce network and daily social contact The same goes for doing volunteer positive results. In one study, had a substantially lower risk of work, which may carry added brain imaging results revealed developing dementia, even when benefits: According to preliminary that patients in the early stages she factored in age and hormone results from a recent study by Sei of Alzheimer’s disease who were use. Lee at the University of California, more aerobically fit had less brain San Francisco, presented this past atrophy than those who were less In a similar study, Robert Wilson May at the annual meeting of the fit. of Rush University’s Alzheimer’s American Geriatrics Society, people Disease Center in Chicago found who volunteered lived longer, even “Aerobic walking, riding a bike that people who felt lonely were after considering other factors, or using a stationary bike, or more likely to develop dementia. like socioeconomic status, chronic swimming—anything that sustains Wilson and his group followed health conditions, and cognititive your heart rate at 65 percent of a group of 80-year-old patients function. its maximum capacity or greater 11senior’s rock magazine

3. STIMULATE YOUR information. The auditory program activities may be as stimulating, or BRAIN—EVEN WITH (IMPACT) has been tested in large, more stimulating, than computer VIDEO GAMES clinical trials around the country training,” says Park. and has been shown to improve There is now ample scientific not only auditory processing Evidence from another recent study evidence that keeping your mind speed and accuracy, but related may support Park’s hypothesis. active is good for brain health. But skills like memory and attention. Robert Wilson monitored more what’s the best way to do that? Similar results have been found for than 700 elderly participants for the visual program, though using five years and found that those who Recent studies show that computer- smaller study populations. reportedly engaged in everyday based exercises designed to improve mentally-stimulating activities—like brain function have been effective “The benefits of our training reading the paper, visiting a library, or at increasing memory, information programs are substantial,” says playing checkers or chess—were less processing, reasoning, attention, Merzenich. “If you are 70 and your likely to have cognitive impairment, and problem solving skills among brain is operating like a typical and were less than half as likely to elderly participants. In some 70 year old, you can train with develop the dementia symptoms studies, successful training in one our program, and your scores on of Alzheimer’s disease. Even skill area (e.g., short-term memory) cognitive tests will improve to levels when researchers considered the led to improvements in areas you’d find in a 59-year-old brain.” participants’ past levels of education not covered in the training (e.g., and socio-economic status, being executive control), suggesting that That may be true, but some mentally engaged later in life still training benefits may “generalize” researchers are still skeptical. seemed critical to reducing the risk of to multiple brain functions and dementia. improve overall cognitive health. “We just don’t know enough about how these programs work,” says The challenge Capitalizing on this research, Arthur Kramer. Although he several companies have sprung up recently co-authored his own study So, will all this research actually to market the idea of “brain fitness” using a video game to improve compel people to do what it takes to to aging Baby Boomers. Though cognitive function in the elderly, keep their brains fit? many, such as Lumosity, have based he remains cautious, noting that their programs on neuroscience “there are still relatively few studies “Let’s face it, some people hate to research, not all have done the of computer-based products.” exercise, even when they know it rigorous testing needed to show helps,” says Kramer. He argues that, their programs work. Denise Park, a researcher at the as we age, we tend to slow down University of Texas, agrees. But she and get sore joints, which makes it Posit Science, founded by has an additional concern about even harder to build up the will to neuroscientist Mike Merzenich, is computer-based training programs: exercise. But Kramer believes that an exception. Posit has developed communicating how exercise benefits two computer-based training that seniors won’t maintain the brain may help motivate people to programs for seniors designed interest in them long change their lifestyles. to increase the speed and enough to reap the accuracy of how they process benefits. Mezernich of Posit Science suggests another possible incentive: economic auditory and visual “It may be very possible interest. He envisions a time when that engaging in fun, health insurance companies will12 novel 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. By Jill Suttie senior’s rock magazine

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94 -YEAR-OLD WIDOWERMADE A SPLASH BY INSTALLING A POOL IN HIS YARD FOR NEIGHBORHOOD KIDSWhen 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.14 senior’s rock magazine

So the retired trial judge had an In fact, people I haven't talked to pool, but it’s not just a pool; it’s soidea. His neighborhood in Morris, in years call “and congratulate much more than that.”Minn., had a lot of kids but no me on having a pool.” He has metswimming pool. Davison, an avid neighbors he hardly knew before The pool was not cheap to install,swimmer, and his wife had bought and grown closer with the ones he but Davison’s home insurancethe house in 1991, and they had did know. company said his premium wouldconsidered putting one in the back not go up. And he is strict aboutyard but had never gotten around Neighbor Jessica Huebner said safety.to it. “When we were in our 60s we when she first heard of the plan, shethought of it, but we didn’t think didn’t think he was serious. “I was “I have a set of rules, of course,we’d live this long,” he said. just thinking, it’s fun to talk, but at being a lawyer,” he said (he is also the age of 94 would you really do it?” a pilot and plays tuba in three localNow, at 94, he thought, why not? bands). There are no lifeguards, When Davison said it was going to so children 12 or under must comeRunning the idea by some be for all the neighborhood kids, with a parent or grandparent, andneighborhood kids clinched it. including her four children, “That’s anyone under 18 must have an adult“They were so excited about it, when it really sank in. I was like, present.because they knew I’d let them wow. You just don’t have that inin, and I decided, ‘That’s enough today’s society, that amount of “Even an adult in there shouldn’t beincentive right there.’ ” kindness.” there by themselves,” he said.So in the spring, construction began Huebner said she has already seen Davison is exempt from that rule,on a 32-by-16-foot heated pool, ripple effects among adults, as well however, thanks in part to his age.complete with diving board, and in as children, as they gather there.July it was done. “I go in by myself,” he admitted with “As a neighborhood we’re getting a chuckle. “If I had a heart attackNow, on sunny days, Davison’s yard out of our day-to-day routines to and died in the pool, what a way tois rarely quiet. About 5 to 10 local make the time to visit with each go. It certainly beats cancer.”kids are there, swimming and other and get to know each other,”diving. “There’s a lot of noise and she said. “(Davison) says it’s just a Magda Jean-Louis contributed tosplashing about, and that’s good,” this reporthe said.senior’s rock magazine 15

SDanaldeersPENSIONER, 83, CELEBRATES BECOMING OLDEST MAN TOWALK ENTIRE LENGTH OF APPALACHIAN TRAIL IN A YEART here was a moment back in August when Dale “Grey Beard” Sanders considered giving up. 16 senior’s rock magazine

In the middle of the 100-Mile Mississippi River. He broke the medication or the two different kinds Wilderness in Maine, far from record for underwater breath- of eye drops that Sanders needs for help, he was bleeding internally holding in 1959 and was IUSA glaucoma. and having heart palpitations - not spearfishing athlete of the year surprising considering that he in 1965. But he had never done a “As older people, we have a great deal was 50 or 60 years older than most hike lasting more than two weeks. more challenges,” he said. Injuries of the people he had met on the For this one, which he started in take longer to heal, including the Appalachian Trail. Georgia in January, he was on the hip he injured in a fall on Kinsman trail for a total of seven months. Mountain in New Hampshire that Sanders called his wife in Bartlett, took two months to stop hurting. Tennessee, and she urged him He is, incidentally, two years older to keep going. With a go-ahead than the Appalachian Trail, which During the hike, he wore a tracker from his doctors, he did, and on was officially “connected” in 1937, so people at home could locate his Thursday, Sanders, 82, officially meaning people could hike it in its position. He fell “about 100 times” became the oldest person to hike entirety from Georgia to Maine. along the rocky, mountainous trail, the entire 2,190-mile trail in a year. Sanders hiked it in a “flip-flop” but only the Kinsman Mountain fall sequence, meaning he did a Georgia- was serious. He walked much of it alone, but for the last mile, ending at the The best comment “A few times I played the age card, Appalachian Trail Conservancy from one of them I admit, and it worked every time. I headquarters in Harpers Ferry, was, 'I want to didn't hitchhike, I flagged cars down, West Virginia, Sanders was joined be like you when and I told them my story and they by friends, family and hikers - I'm your age,' ” he said, 'Get in.'” including a pair of dogs - he had met said. “That kept along the trail. Sanders' personal story includes a 50- me going. year career as a Parks and Recreation At the end of it, he danced a jig. programme administrator. He spent to-Harpers Ferry leg, followed by a his boyhood on a Kentucky tobacco “I feel euphoric!” he said. “I keep Maine-to-Harpers Ferry leg. farm, worked as a lifeguard and was thinking, is someone going to come a circus acrobat and cotton-candy out of the woodwork and say, 'Uh- A naturally gregarious person, seller. uh, I hiked it last year... and I was Sanders had periods of depression 83' - but no one has stepped up and while alone on the trail. He was “He always did acrobatics,” said his said that.” helped by what he calls “trail sister, Elaine Bush of Nashville, one of angels,” people who recognized him several family members celebrating “Someone said to me, 'You can't do from seeing him on the Internet, with him in Harpers Ferry; his wife, it, the only way an old person's going who called out his trail name - “Grey a daughter and son-in-law, and two to be able to hike the Appalachian Beard” - and hiked alongside him grandchildren also came. “He was Trail is if they've hiked it before.' for a stretch. (Sanders' long beard is always in the limelight, because he white, but he named himself after a was unusual and he did unusual That challenged me.” Cherokee Indian chief he admires.) things.” Sanders had completed “The best comment from one of Sanders takes 30-inch steps, so he other impressive feats. them was, 'I want to be like you figures he took 4,625,256 steps for the A couple of years when I'm your age,' ” he said. “That hike. Along the way, he passed tens of ago, he paddled kept me going.” thousands of white blazes that mark the length the trail. When he passed the last one of the The majority of his fellow hikers on Thursday, he stopped, took off his were in their 20s. They didn't have cap, and kissed it.senior’s rock magazine to keep track of blood pressure 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 17

CAN'T NOTHING BRING ME DOWNIt’s nothing short of inspirational to have the op- also hope that they take away portunity to speak with Ida Keeling, a 102-year-old how good exercise is. Exercise and world-record-holding runner and author of Can’t strengthening yourself, and staying Nothing Bring Me Down, a riveting memoir in book- alert and focused, is so important. stores this month. I want readers to pay attention to what they’re doing.Keeling’s story is filled with in- You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Break-credible eyewitness accounts of fast, to find out what keeps her What was it about running thatkey moments in American history, going strong. helped you so much?including growing up during theGreat Depression, serving as a lead- If you could speak to every single When I lost two of my sons twoer in the civil rights movement and reader of your book, what would years apart, I can’t even describeraising four children on her own in you tell them? how that felt. So, when my daugh-a single-room apartment while she ter suggested I go running becauseworked at a factory. Keeling also I would say that I hope it’s a wonder- maybe it would make me feel better,shares the great sadness of her life, ful experience reading my book. I I decided to try it. I went on thatthe brutal murders of her two sons hope readers get some new experi- run, and soon enough, did anotherwhen she was in her 60s. It was that ences and old age thoughts and feel- and another. Running felt so good.low point in her life that actually got I would come home after exercis-her to put on her running shoes ings and what ing and felt like it relieved me ofafter her daughter suggested happened some stress and bad feelings. Afterthat running might offer her back then all these years, I can tell you thatsolace in her grief. and all running is a good way to way to feel that better, mentally and physically. YouKeeling entered her first race kind of have to look where you’re running,when she was 67, set a second stuff. I you have to pick up your feet and allworld record at 95 and is the that kind of stuff.first woman in history tocomplete a 100-meter run at I hear you can still do push-ups?the age of 100. Just days ago,on February 24, Keeling set a Yes. I have arthritis now, soworld record in the 60-meter I’ve got these aches anddash event at the Imperial Dade pains, but I can stillTrack Classic hosted by Urban do them. I have myAthletics with an impressive bike, my mat and myrace time of 58:34 in the 100 weights and I useto 104 age group. them. I like to keep moving.We sat down with Keeling,who was recently profiled What’s the mostin the HBO documentary If important advice you want to18 share with our readers? senior’s rock magazine

Jokes LET'S HAVE A GOOD LAUGHTER\"I'm speeding because I have to \"HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR PERSONAL ADSget there before I forgot where I'm CLASSMATE\"going.\" Male, 1932, high mileage, good While waiting for her first condition, some hair, many new partsCOLD, COLD DAY appointment in the reception including hip, knee, cornea, valves. room of a new doctor, a woman Not in running condition but walksOn a very cold, snowy Sunday in noticed the doctor's medical school well.February, only the pastor and one certificate on the wall, which borefarmer arrived at the village church. his full name. Recent widow who has just buriedThe pastor said, 'Well, I guess we fourth husband looking for someonewon't have a service today.' The Suddenly, she remembered that a to round out a six-unit plot. Dizziness,farmer replied: 'Pastor, even if only tall, handsome boy with the same fainting, shortness of breath not aone cow shows up at feeding time, I name had been in her high school problem.feed it.' some 45 years ago. Active grandmother with originalTHE CHILDREN Upon seeing him, however, she teeth seeking a dedicated flosser toOF ISRAEL quickly discarded any such thought. share rare steaks, corn on the cob, This balding, gray-haired man with and caramel candy.The boy listened closely as the the deeply lined face was too old torabbi read the Bible. 'May I ask have been her classmate. Sexy, fashion-conscious, blue-haireda question?' he asked. 'Sure. Go beauty, 80’s, slim, 5’4 (used to be 5’6)ahead. Ask your question,' replied After her exam, she asked him if he searching for sharp-looking, sharp-the rabbi. 'Well, the Bible says that had attended the local high school. dressing companion. Matching whitethe children of Israel crossed the shoes and belt a plus.Red Sea-the children of Israel built \"Yes,\" he replied.the temple-the children of Israel did I usually remember Monday throughthis and the children of Israel did \"When did you graduate?\" she Thursday. If you can rememberthat. Didn't the grown-ups ever do asked Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, let’s putanything?' our two heads together. He answered, \"In 1965.\" I still like to rock, still like to cruise in \"Why, you were in my class!\" she my Camaro on Saturday nights, and exclaimed. still like to play the guitar. If you were a groovy chick, or are now a groovy He looked at her closely and then hen, let’s get together and listen to my asked, \"What did you teach?\" eight-track tapes. https://www.funny-jokes-quotes- sayings.com/senior-citizen-jokes.htmlsenior’s rock magazine 19

NEVER The Manager was surprised when he looked at the check.MESS \"But Madam, this check is forWITH SENIOR only $50.00\" \"That's correct\" sheCITIZENS replied \"I charged you $200.00 for sleeping with me.\"Alady decided to give herself a big treat for \"But I didn't sleep with you her 70th birthday by madam!\" said the manager staying overnight in a really nice luxurious \"Well, too bad, I was here, and hotel.. you could have.\"When she checked out the next morning, the desk senior’s rock magazineclerk handed her a bill for $250.00. She demanded toknow why the charge was so high \"I agree it's a nicehotel, but the rooms aren't worth $250..00 for justan overnight stay - I didn't even have breakfast!\" Theclerk told her that $250.00 is the 'standard rate,' andbreakfast had been included had she wanted it.She insisted on speaking to the Manager.The Manager appeared and, forewarned by the deskclerk, announced: \"This hotel has an Olympic-sizedpool and a huge conference center which are availablefor use.\" \"But I didn't use them.\" ''Well, they are here,and you could have.\"He went on to explain that she could also haveseen one of the in-hotel shows for which theywere so famous.\"We have the best entertainers from allover the world performing here.\"\"But I didn't go to any of thoseshows..\" She Pleaded.\"Well, we have them, and you couldhave.\" was the reply.No matter what amenity the Managermentioned, she replied, \"But I didn't useit!\" and the Manager countered with his standardresponse.After several minutes discussion, and with theManager still unmoved, she decided to pay, wrote acheck and gave it to him. 20

QUOTESDo Not Cast Remember, We Don’t Me Away The dementia Stop PlayingWhen I Am patient is not Because We giving you aOld; Do Not HARD TIME. Grow Old.Forsake Me The dementia We Grow Old When My Because WeStrength Is patient is Stop Playing! having a Gone. HARD TIME!Psalm 71:9senior’s rock magazine 21

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CCoarrengeirversTHE CAREGIVER’S Change my attitude from a tired, frustrated andPRAYER angry caregiver to the loving and compassionate one I want to be. Lighten up my face and never letDear Lord, my smile or laughter become a frown. Help me to discover the humor in unusual situations and notThank you for the call upon my life as a Caregiver. take life so seriously.And thank you for trusting me with the preciousrole of caring for others. Change my heart, O God, and give me compassion to love others even when they are difficult toTeach me to always remember I am doing your love and are not able to respond or reciprocate.work. Change my heart, O God, and give me Help me listen with my heart that I might feelcompassion to love and, especially those I give another's pain; Give me words that comfort andcare to, even when they are difficult to love and bless and bring glory to your Name. Help me tonot able to respond or reciprocate. Bless me with see that caregiving is not a heavy cross to bear,your patience and understanding and give me but a precious opportunity to develop Christ'sthe needed strength to do what so often seems image in me.impossible even as you help me extend yourlove to all I touch. Empower me to continue to I pray Lord, you will give me the heart to knowbe a channel and a source of strength to all the that this isn't just a job but it is a calling. In Jesus'beautiful men and women I give care to. mighty name I pray. AmenPlease Lord, lift the burdens I feel today and let By Peace Bennettme lift the spirits of those for whom I care for.senior’s rock magazine 23

MAKING A DIFFERENCE It take supernatural strength. It when the baby takes a bath. But with theAS A CAREGIVER cannot be done in the energy of the caregiver of the Alzheimer's flesh. It takes more than grittingOne of the highest forms of service in one's teeth and hanging on. The patient, there is rarely a smile, only theour social obligations to mankind is caregiver's source is God himself who blank look of mental depression andthe caregiver. \"gives power to the faint and to them despair. The lights are on, but nobody's that have no might, He increaseth home.What is a caregiver? It's one who strength.\" The caregiver can restministers to a person who cannot look assured that the Lord Jesus is pleased And yet there is the tenderness of aafter him- or herself. It is a person with his or her service to one of his dependent person, the moments whenwho selflessly helps those who cannot own creation. he knows he is not thinking and actingfunction because of disabilities. It may right. During these moments, he feels thebe one who looks after a person with One of the most difficult tasks in life embarrassment of being confused anda stroke, a loved one with terminal is being a caregiver for a loved one helpless.cancer or a mate with Alzheimer's. with Alzheimer's. It may be a husband who daily takes care of his wife, or a There also are times of selflessness whenIt takes humility. There is nothing wife who looks after her husband. It she gives you a piece of custard pie thatthat would attract our old Adamic may be a daughter looking after her she enjoys, but she wants you to havenature to this type of service. No one father or a son caring for his mother it. And there is the tenderness of beingis recommending the caregiver for a or father. tucked into bed like a little child — andspecial award. The caregiver will not loving it.likely be named \"Woman of the Year\" It is so draining, so heartrendingby a national magazine. The faithful to see a loved one's personality Caregivers are very special people whocaregiver will not likely be featured on robbed — see dignity stolen — by need our prayers — and especially our\"Making a Difference\" on the evening this debilitating disease. Once the help. If you know someone who is goingnews. He or she is quietly going about person was the one you leaned upon, through this kind of ordeal, give them athe duties of a nurse, a servant and an looked to for guidance and strength. break by volunteering to help them. Youencourages — all in one person. You admired his hard work and will be remembered by the caregiver and independence. You loved to hear her blessed by the Lord.Caregiving is not for the person who laugh and be with her. But neither ofmust see something accomplished them are the person you used to know. By Pastor Guy Templetonimmediately. Goal-orientedindividuals need not apply. It is And this does something to thesometimes a long-term task with caregiver. You often hear the joyouslittle observable progress. It takes first words of a baby and the laughterperseverance; it takes tenacity andsteadfastness. It is not for the frivolousor faint-hearted.24 senior’s rock magazine

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