Dutchess County Office for the Aging’s
AGING NEWS
For the week of April 10
Note: The Office for the Aging is seeking volunteers for our annual Summer Senior Picnic program. Right now we’re looking for clerical assistance at our City of Poughkeepsie office as we work on sending tens of thousands of Senior Picnic invites to seniors all over the county. And we’ll need help at the picnic sites this summer. To find out more, get in touch with our Outreach Coordinator, Brian Jones, at(845) 486-2555 or bjones@dutchessny.gov – and thanks!
Golden Living . . . News for Senior Citizens
Todd N. Tancredi, Director
Dutchess County Office for the Aging
SENIORS OF THE YEAR TO BE NAMED
Over the past month or so, the Advisory Board of the Dutchess County Office for the Aging has been reading many compelling stories of the volunteer work done by the people nominated to be this year’s Senior Citizens of the Year by their friends, neighbors and colleagues. As always, choosing a limited number of winners is tremendously difficult, but in next week’s “Golden Living” column we’ll announce the Senior Male, Senior Female and Senior Couple honorees, who will be feted at the annual Celebration of Aging, on Monday, May 22 at Villa Borghese, 70 Widmer Rd. in Wappingers Falls.
At the Celebration of Aging we will also honor the Dutchess County residents turning 100 or older this year, as well as the couples married for 70 years or more this year. If any Dutchess resident you know matches either of those descriptions, we’d love to send them an invitation to join us, free of charge, on May 22.
If you’d like to join us at the Celebration of Aging to experience the stories our honorees will share, tickets are $25 per person (while they last) if paid by April 21, and $40 per person after. Checks should be mailed to, or dropped off at, the Dutchess County Office for the Aging, 27 High St., Poughkeepsie NY 12601. If you’d like more information, call us at (845) 486-2555 or email bjones@dutchessny.gov.
The 2017 Celebration of Aging is proudly sponsored by the Pines at Poughkeepsie, Fidelis Care, Marquis Home Care, Medicare Resource Group, Wingate Healthcare, Hudson Cadillac Buick GMC, EverCare and MVP Health Care.
NUTRITION TALKS THROUGHOUT DUTCHESS
Office for the Aging Nutrition Coordinator Nimesh Bhargava has been spreading the word of the importance of a sound diet to successful aging. He periodically gives presentations on a wide variety of dietary topics at Office for the Aging Senior Friendship Centers, and he can also speak to your civic, social and/or house-of-worship group. Find out more by calling the Office for the Aging at (845) 486-2555.
We also have a toll-free number, (866) 486-2555, for Dutchess residents living outside the 845 area code, or whose mobile phones have a different area code.
THE “ONE RING” SCAM RETURNS
A scam that makes the rounds every so often is coming back, officials throughout the Hudson Valley are reporting. The scam works like this: an incoming call to your phone rings just once, often with your Caller ID showing an unfamiliar area code; that’s enough to trigger a “missed call” notice on mobile phones. Don’t call these “one ring” numbers back, because you can be hit with big per-minute charges coming to $20/minute or more.
The Federal Trade Commission has more information about the scam at the following link: https://go.usa.gov/xX8dd
Golden Living is prepared by the Dutchess County Office for the Aging, 27 High Street, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601, telephone (845) 486-2555, email: ofa@dutchessny.gov website: http://www.dutchessny.gov/CountyGov/Departments/Aging/AGIndex.htm
Upcoming Office for the Aging presentations and related events:
Tuesday 4/11, 11 a.m. – “Successful Aging” at Pawling Senior Friendship Center
154 Charles Colman Blvd.
(845) 855-9308 or (845) 486-2555 for information
Tuesday 4/25, 9 a.m. – Walkway over the Hudson senior walking group resumes
Meet at the top of the stairs at the Washington Ave. entrance
(845) 486-2555 for information
Monday 5/22, 12 noon – The Celebration of Aging
Villa Borghese, 70 Widmer Rd., Wappingers Falls
Tickets $25/person if paid before April 21; $40/person after that
Centenarians (turning 100+ in 2017) free, along with one guest
Couples married 70+ years in 2017 free
bjones@dutchessny.gov or (845) 486-2555 for information
Friday 6/16, 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2017
Poughkeepsie Elks Lodge #275, 29 Overocker Rd., Poughkeepsie
weaad@evercare.org or (845) 485-1277 for information
To request an Office for the Aging presentation for your senior, social and/or civic group, get in touch with outreach coordinator Brian Jones at (845) 486-2555 or bjones@dutchessny.gov. All you need provide is a venue that’s accessible and open to the public, and a space to set up a projector and screen.
We feature presentations on Successful Aging, Office for the Aging services, a wide range of topics related to nutrition, and more!
HEARING LOSS PRESENTATION IN POUGHKEEPSIE (WED 4/12)
The Mid-Hudson chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America is hosting Neil G. Bauman, Ph. D. of the Center for Hearing Loss Help. Dr. Bauman will speak about his books, “Ototoxic Drugs Exposed”, a comprehensive list of all the prescription and over the counter drugs that have been known to cause hearing loss, tinnitus, dizziness and vertigo, along with “When your Ears Ring: Cope with your Tinnitus and Here’s How.” Dr. Bauman will be speaking at 7 pm at TRI, 82 Washington St. Suite 214 in the city of Poughkeepsie.
For more information, contact Alice Tenuto (845-489-7008 or atenuto@optonline.net) or Florence Butler (845-255-6128 orflorencebutler@gmail.com).
If you can’t make it Wednesday night, you can catch the same presentation at 1 p.m. on Thursday 4/13 in Ulster County at the Gardiner Library (133 Farmers Turnpike).
Other aging news online:
As of the time we were putting the finishing touches on this week’s Aging News, the New York state budget was almost but not quite passed; within the budget is a measure allowing for testing of autonomous (self-driving) vehicles in New York – something of great interest to Dutchess seniors concerned about maintaining their independence: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/albany/2017/04/05/ny-budget-approves-self-driving-car-tests/100056236/
In the meantime, MIT researchers have been working on self-driving wheelchairs: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/mits-new-wheelchair-drives/
Positive thinking is a key component of successful aging, but how to develop that state of mind if it’s not coming naturally? It’s possible:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/well/live/turning-negative-thinkers-into-positive-ones.html?emc=eta1
(video) As you get ready to spend more time outdoors, be sure to thank and encourage the opossum, our friendly local Lyme-tick-eating marsupial: http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/videos/tech/science/environment/2017/03/28/opossums-where-lyme-disease-goes-die/99744412/
The big print in a headline on medical research can make you think a cure for a major ailment is just around the corner – but the fine print often skims over the part that shows that what scientists had been studying were mice: http://www.healthnewsreview.org/news-release-review-tags/mice-studies/
You might not need as much sleep as a teenager does, but New Yorkers in particular come up short on sleep, according to the Centers for Disease Control: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/how-much-sleep-should-i-get-according-to-age-a7633916.html
Dancing: good for the aging brain? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/well/walk-stretch-or-dance-dancing-may-be-best-for-the-brain.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FElderly
As many more of us live past 90, we’re going to need some pointers on how to thrive, and one good place to look is the place with the world’s longest life expectancy: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/south-korea-japan-live-over-90-ageing-population-for-some-advice-a7593801.html
A grocery store in northern Scotland is experimenting with “relaxed” checkout lanes for customers with dementia who need more time to arrange their groceries and settle up, or just for people who like to chat with the cashier a bit: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-38669395
To be a genius, think like a 94-year-old: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/opinion/sunday/to-be-a-genius-think-like-a-94-year-old.html?_r=0
It was 50 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play? Almost. http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-super-deluxe-edition/
This week in senior birthdays:
4/11: Philanthropist Ethel Kennedy (89)
4/12: Children’s author Beverly Cleary (101)
4/13: Director/choreographer Stanley Donen (93)
4/14: Pro golfer Roberto De Vicenzo (94)
4/15: TV personality/guitarist Roy Clark (84)
4/16: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (90)
4/17: Actress Olivia Hussey (66)
Brian Jones
Outreach Coordinator
Dutchess County Office For the Aging
27 High Street
Poughkeepsie NY 12601
