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LIVING

Time Exchange Partners In Care creates network to help older adults remain in their homes

BY CHRISTIE WISNIEWSKI AND ANNA JOYCE SPECIAL TO THE NEWS-POST

“We engage people to use their time and talents to help themselves and each other with the tasks of everyday living.”

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rederick resident Mary Morley said she would not be able to get to her doctors’ appointments if she didn’t have help—a common problem for many older adults in the county.

“There are limited services in Frederick County and many seniors that need assistance,” she said.

Partners In Care’s mission is to change that. The volunteer-driven, nonprofit service-exchange program aims to empower local seniors to remain independent in their homes. To do this, its volunteers offer transportation for medical appointments and errands, as well as neighborly services like friendly visits, phone calls, light housekeeping and minor handyman tasks. Any Frederick County resident 50 or older who lives independently can use the PIC Frederick’s services.

While these services have been on hiatus—except for emergencies—since Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s stay-at home orders due to the coronavirus pandemic, they will resume when Hogan implements phased reopening plans.

Before the state shut down, since becoming ill last summer, Morley used PIC to receive weekly rides to her medical appointments. She occasionally got light yardwork done as well. In addition to thanking the volunteers for their services every time she receives a ride, Morley said she gave back to PIC by volunteering at its office once a week when it was open.

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–Bud Otis

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PIC Frederick had been able to expand its services to acquire a mobility van capable of accommodating nine passengers and two wheelchairs.

How Does PIC Work?

Partners In Care Maryland, Inc. was founded in Anne Arundel County in 1993.

The Frederick office opened in 2007 and has about 300 members.

Through a network of volunteers who use their own vehicles, PIC provides “door-to-door, arm-in-arm transportation to members, driving them wherever they would like to go within the tristate area,” said Frederick PIC Site Director Bud Otis.

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“PIC operates using an innovative time-service exchange model with values of reciprocity, social capital and equality infused into the culture of the program,” said Otis. “We engage people to use their time and talents to help themselves and each other with the tasks of everyday living.”

PIC recognizes that most people want to stay in the homes and the communities they know and love, and to make this possible, it provides not only transportation and handyman services, but also member care, advocacy, and social programs to support healthy, independent, active living. Since moving to 5 Willowdale Drive in Willowtree

Plaza recently, PIC Frederick had been able to expand its services and even acquire a mobility van capable of accommodating nine passengers and two wheelchairs, and again, plans to resume these services as the reopening of the state is phased in.

Additionally, PIC will open its very own upscale resale boutique in Frederick two weeks after the governor permits nonessential businesses to reopen.

One hundred percent of the proceeds from this boutique—the second of its kind in the state—will directly fund PIC’s programs and services.

Already well stocked and ready to open when the time comes, this boutique features upscale women’s and men’s clothing, “tons of jewelry,” Otis said, and a sampling of furniture.

The boutique will be open to anyone and everyone for shopping, and curbside donations have been ongoing.

Doing some spring cleanly? Bag up items in good condition you’d like to donate and drop then at the store at 5 Willowdale Drive. (You might want to call ahead.) Donations are tax deductible.

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Diana Modelski, Partners In Care Frederick boutique manager, steams clothing in the nonprofit’s soon-toopen store. 100% percent of the proceeds from sales will fund PIC programs and services.

Fine china is among the upscale merchandise that will be available in the new boutique.

Jonathan Payne, Partners In Care Maryland Frederick volunteer coordinator, sorts clothing in PIC’s new boutique that they plan to open soon on Willowdale Drive.

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LIVING

Stunning Stained Glass From jewelry to windows, artisans craft–and restore– this art form

BY PAULETTE LEE SPECIAL TO THE NEWS-POST

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uring my travels in Europe, I’ve always marveled at the variety and intricacies of the stained glass windows I’ve seen, particularly during the year starting in 2017 that I was living in central France. Probably the most elaborate I saw during that time were in the Poitiers Cathedral, when I took a road trip to follow in the footsteps of Eleanor (Alienor) of Aquitaine.

It was with great pleasure during a day trip that I stumbled upon the whisper of a village, Cuzay-sur-Vonne, and discovered Le Musée du Vitrail (Stained Glass Museum), a medieval church exhibiting contemporary glass art.

That day at the museum there was an artist-in-residence who generously demonstrated for me the traditional methods he uses, including the arduous “grisaille” technique in which every single piece of glass is “gray painted” and baked to give it a three-dimensional effect.

When I returned to the U.S. and settled in Frederick, I wondered if there might be a stained glass community here, and found that there is a robust one. In fact, it turns out there’s a great deal of “graying” in that community.

“Most of our customers are fifty-plus,” said Paula Russin, 45, who with her husband Dave, 50, owns Anything in Stained Glass in Frederick.

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Paula Russin shows a fused glass piece done earlier this year in a class held at her store, Anything in Stained Glass, in Frederick.

“They’re usually retired, don’t have kids at home anymore, and have the time and feel free to do something for themselves… Or, they still have stressful jobs and do stained glass to relax.”

Due to COVID-19 restrictions at the time of publication, the physical store was closed, but Anything in Stained Glass was still fulfilling online orders.

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tician and he as a software engineer at Lockheed Martin. They ultimately quit their jobs to buy her parents’ New Jersey business, relocate to Frederick, and create what is now a massive 12,000-square-foot art-glass retail and education center. It sells all the tools, supplies, chemicals, and an enormous array of glass for stained, fused and mosaic glass, and also provides instruction and personal assistance.

“We’re here to help people,” she said. “Whoever wants to do it can do it.” In fact, at a two-Saturday “boot

camp” earlier this year, her youngest student was 62 and her eldest was 88.

To keep peace in the family, she joked, Russin specializes in stained glass, using both the lead armature and Louis Tiffany-preferred copper foil methods, while her husband concentrates on three-dimensional fused glass.

STAINED GLASS—now the catchword for all colored “art glass”—enthusiasts fall within four broad categories: hobbyists, artisans, repairers and

“The Crucifixion” at Poitiers Cathedral

Fused glass pieces from Sharon Rowland, who owns Art in Glass Studio in Thurmont.

artists, depending on whether they prefer the design or mechanical process, and how they market their work.

One of Russin’s customers is 82-year old artisan Fran Asbeck, a member of the Frederick Arts Council, who said he began working in glass 30 years ago because he wanted to create a window for the front door of the house he built in Boyds, “and then it just got out of hand!”

Asbeck’s works are both two-dimensional—e.g., window and door panels—and three-dimensional, including the boxes he sells at The Muse in downtown Frederick, as well as at other venues. He’s particularly fond of the creative process. “I look at the materials I have, and they tell me how they want me to use them.”

on the pattern, joining the pieces with the hollowed-out lead “came” (flexible strips) that are then soldered and finished. He has worked on countless churches all over the region. The presidential seal at Camp David is also among his credits—though he was never allowed to go there. He has enough work right now, he said, “to work five days a week, for four or five months.”

“I’m not an artist,” Patton said, “I’m a craftsperson. I like to take something in bad shape and make it look nice again.”

WHEN FREDERICK area churches have

–Fran Asbeck

stained glass windows that need repairing, they’ll often call John Patton, who, at 68, is a retired firefighter but still active in The Frederick County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association. He began learning stained glass techniques in 1974 when he lived above Jim Russell’s stained glass shop on Market Street. He hung out there, learned the craft, and eventually worked for Russell, with whom he made a deal: If Russell would send him to glass-making school in Massachusetts, he wouldn’t have to give Patton any pay raises.

Today, most of Patton’s work is in church restoration, and he showed me how he makes a rubbing of the project window, then disassembles it, cleans and dries every piece, and then rebuilds back

SHARON ROWLAND does describe herself as an artist—and a “prolific” one, at that. The 69-year old retired nurse took her first glass-making class in 1972, after which she “never put a glass cutter down.”

Rowland and her husband Russ share a 6,000-square-foot commercial space in Thurmont. His commercial decorative glass business, Rowland Glass, is on one side. Her Art in Glass studio, where she also makes jewelry, is on the other.

Sharon Rowland is always eager to learn new techniques and try new products and applications. She has worked in all types of glass forms and processes, but currently enjoys fused glass. As her passion for glass is ardent, she vows to never retire.

“I look at the materials I have, and they tell me how they want me to use them.”

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PEOPLE

Celebrity Zoom

Viewers see a different side of Jimmy Fallon, through a different medium

BY HANK STUEVER

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elevision has never looked more like our own lives than it does during the coronavirus lockdown, where work and school and daily existence have all become improvised efforts. Every program that once depended on a studio audience and other forms of frisson (an interview, a rapport, anything resembling the human touch) has reinvented itself to remain relevant, or just to remain on.

The melding of TV and the internet is not as exciting as the futurists once promised. Rather than interactive, it feels interpassive; as the novelty wears off, the technology turns out to be a lousy substitute for conversation, intimacy, love—the things that are truly worth watching.

Still, it’s the very attempt to both acknowledge the crisis and innovate a way out of it that will form a permanent archive of what TV looked like during the pandemic.

Life is noticeably more different over at Jimmy Fallon’s eclectically decorated homestead, which includes a restored barn where a playful indoor slide connects one floor to another. The hyperactive NBC “Tonight Show” host, who built his persona as a giddily regressive extrovert, has discovered his calmer and more attentive side, at long last. It’s the more subdued presence of a grownup—a father and husband trying to break some of the household monotony.

The breakout star on this version of the show is Fallon’s pleasantly chillaxed wife of 12-plus years, Nancy Juvonen,

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“Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon takes a stroll with his wife and de facto phone-camera operator and front-line producer, Nancy Juvonen, on an April 28 episode.

who is now “The Tonight Show’s” chief phone-camera operator and front-line producer. In a new and refreshingly tranquil recurring segment, Fallon and Juvonen take a walk around their pretty neighborhood and answer viewers’ questions (sent via hashtag), which are mostly about their relationship.

How did they meet? How did they fall in love? How did they work through infertility issues? How did he propose marriage? They giggle and meander through the answers, presenting very much as two people in love.

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rainstorm, they sat inside a restored vintage VW bus and answered a question about what they were like at age 5; she seemed surprised by his description of himself as a quiet and religious child, one of those rare moments in which a spouse gleans some fresh sliver of insight.With viewers, Fallon and Juvonen have stumbled into a bright spot of the coronavirus: a surplus of time to fill and a willingness to just listen to those around you.

Might a new kind of “Tonight Show” emerge from this? A quieter, nightly wind-down instead of the frenetic,

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high-decibel, celebrity recess playground that it became?

That’s probably just one critic’s wishful thinking. Post-pandemic TV, including “The Tonight Show,” will almost certainly rush back to whipping studio audiences into a noisy froth, interrupting its own conversations and kowtowing to the celebrity-industrial complex. Like any other profitable industry, it is desperate to go back to the way things were.

– Excerpted from Stuever’s article “Stars are working to stay afloat with Zoom and improvised efforts, but it’ll never match TV’s liveliness” from The Washington Post.

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FINANCE

6 Estate-Planning Myths E state planning is about defining and living out your legacy during your lifetime.

It enables you to enjoy the impact your plan has on the people and organizations you support. But there are a lot of myths that still need debunking:

over. Preferences and goals change over time. Laws change. Tax rates are adjusted. You rethink your charitable strategies. You may marry or divorce or welcome a new child or grandchild.

Minor children become adults. Or you may move to another state—all reasons to revisit your plan.

MYTH #1: Estate planning is only for the wealthy.

There’s a common belief that estate planning is only necessary for multimillionaires. But if you own property and assets or have loved ones that depend on you to provide for their income or care, use an estate plan. Basically, if you have money, real estate or a comic book collection, you have an estate. Use estate planning to protect your spouse, minor children or other dependents.

MYTH #5: Taxes eat up the lion's share of any estate.

Although estate taxes are real and the rates are quite high, topping out at 40%, only people with estates worth millions of dollars are affected by federal estate taxes. Many states don’t have estate or inheritance taxes at all, though some that do have lower thresholds than the federal rate.

The estate tax exclusion increased significantly under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Although there may be future changes, the general trend has been the federal estate tax affects only the very wealthy. Keep abreast of any state laws that may change and impose a separate estate or inheritance tax.

MYTH #2: Estate planning is only about distributing your assets after you're gone.

Your legacy includes charitable planning goals and gifting strategies, but you should see your plan as passing down less tangible assets that are meaningful to you. Also, you need to prepare for unexpected events; name a guardian for your kids to take care of them and manage whatever funds you leave for their benefit.

MYTH #3: A will oversees the distribution of all your assets.

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matter what your will says. So you must review beneficiary designations to update an IRA account to your new spouse, for instance.

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a living will and a trust. A trust can accomplish a lot of things more efficiently than a will, even for those with modest estates, so don’t rule it out.

MYTH #4: An estate plan is a

once-and-done event.

Once the plan is in place, it’s not

MYTH #6: None of this matters anyway — I’m too young to need a will.

This is one of the biggest myths of all! First of all, even individuals without a spouse or children should make provisions for how their worldly goods will be disposed of after they’re gone.

And if your situation changes later, you'll already have a template in place.

Even if you don’t have close family, you may want to leave your assets to a meaningful charity.

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H E A LT H

Televisits May Be Here to Stay

BY FRAN KRITZ

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ince the 1960s, telehealth cheerleaders have been predicting that video visits with doctors would soon become common for many U.S. patients. That became true only weeks ago, six decades later, when the coronavirus pandemic essentially shut down the world.

“Since about mid-March, it’s become a reality and even a likelihood for millions of patients,” said Lori Uscher-Pines, a senior policy researcher at the Rand Corp., whose research includes innovations in telehealth. “Before then, less than 10% of U.S. adults had ever had a telemedicine visit. But COVID-19 [is changing] all that, likely permanently.”

The terms telehealth, telemedicine and e-health have nuances when used legally, but for consumers, they are usually used interchangeably and refer to health care provided by a professional in a non-face-to-face manner, said Mei Wa Kwang, executive director of the Public Health Institute’s Center for Connected Health Policy in Sacramento. Options can include a phone call, email, text, video visit or even a video email.

Before mid-March, Jay Mazel, a cardiac electrophysiologist at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, gave little thought to telemedicine. His specialty involves the treatment of heart rhythm problems. While he’s still doing emergency procedures, with enhanced safety protocols, two days a week, maintenance visits are largely by video.

Televisit options can include a phone call, email, text, video visit or even a video email.

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are projected to climb to 1 billion by the end of 2020, according to Forrester Research. The uptick started in midMarch when state stay-at-home orders began. Partners Healthcare, for example, a Massachusetts-based health care system that includes Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s hospitals, had 1,600 televisits for outpatient care in February, 89,000 in March and 242,000 in April. Jefferson Health, a health care system in Penn-

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sylvania and New Jersey, saw an 11-fold jump from February to end April.

Telemedicine was largely ready for the influx.

The past decade or so has been full of telehealth demonstration projects, including video visits with specialists, for people living far from academic medical centers. Several dedicated telehealth companies have sprung up, often catering to people with no insurance or high deductibles. Each

telehealth company has different offerings—but a common visit such as checking symptoms for flu, generally costs under $100. The limiting factor, Kwang said, had been that most people have little or no health insurance coverage for video visits and doctors often have not been able to be reimbursed for telehealth services.

AMID THE COVID-19 outbreak, that has

changed. The increase in telehealth

visits has been bolstered by decisions to cover them by Medicare, Medicaid and many private insurers, some of whom have even waived copays and deductibles for some visits, especially for those related to COVID-19 symptoms, according to information from the industry’s association, America’s Health Insurance Plans.

Aetna, for example, is “offering zero copay telemedicine visits for any reason,” and Humana is “waiving member cost share for all telehealth services delivered by participating/in-network providers.”

In March, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a notice that because of the COVID-19 emergency, Medicare would pay doctors and hospitals for a broad range of telehealth services, including those delivered by nurse practitioners, clinical psychologists and social workers at the same rate as in-person visits.

The guidance also allows doctors to use any technology they choose to deliver care and treat patients via telehealth even if it’s not related to the virus outbreak.

TELEHEALTH, HOWEVER, hasn’t been,

and can’t be, a replacement for every health visit.

An April 23 study, published by the Commonwealth Fund, analyzed data on changes in visit volume for more than 50,000 health care providers and found that the number of visits to physician offices declined nearly 60% from Feb. 1 through mid-March and remained low through mid-April.

Telehealth accounted for only 30% of visits that were still happening, but it did not make up for the much larger decline in visits.

Behavioral health was least affected,

ONCE THE CENTERS for Medicare and

“Even though it’s brand new for my patients—who tend to be older—and their doctor, they love it and so do I.”

Medicaid Services released the new rules on telemedicine visits in March, the American Medical Association and other medical societies, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, kicked into high gear to advise their members on –Jay Mazel, cardiac electrophysiologist the rules and telehealth best practices.

Wide use of telemedicine is so new that the AMA released a primer in March.

The AAP, for example, has postbut still saw a drop of 30%. Alarming- ed clinical suggestions on its website ly, pediatric in-person visits saw a drop including “consider[ing] . . . adjustof more than 60%. ments to . . . clinical operations [such “Telemedicine volume has grown as] only conduct[ing] well [in person] too modestly to make up for lost visits for newborns, and for infants in-person visits,” said Eric Schneider, and younger children who require imsenior vice president for policy and re- munizations and to reschedule well search at the Commonwealth Fund. visits for those in middle childhood He said that in-person visits will still and adolescence to a later date.” be needed for diagnosis and testing of The same is true for patients who some complex conditions. need urgent follow-up testing. But “It really is important to be very if recent screening exams, such as a aware of the limitations,” said An- mammogram, were normal, physithony E. Magit, a pediatric otolaryn- cians are likely to wait for the outgologist and chief of physician inte- break to abate in their communities gration at Rady Children’s Hospital before recommending additional in San Diego, where telehealth visits testing, said Mark B. Woodland, OB/ have jumped from just a few before GYN chair at Reading Hospital/Towthe pandemic to as many as 800 per er Health and Drexel University Colday recently. lege of Medicine and the chair of the Those limitations include brief Council on Resident Education for visits that focus on a single issue the American College of Obstetrics and may not include questions that and Gynecologists. lead to other health concerns as ofAnalysts and doctors do not expect ten happens during in-person visits, the “genie of telemedicine to be put lack of privacy for some patients and back into the bottle” once the crisis lack of certain tools sometimes used ends, Woodland said. in visits, such as smartphone cameras “The silver lining is that we will that allow doctors to see throats and learn how to do it well, and our paears, and pulse oximeters or blood tients will help us learn.” pressure monitors that give doctors –Special to The Washington Post critical patient data.

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TELEHEALTH TIPS

Call insurers to determine telehealth coverage and options, recommends Joe Kvedar, vice president of Connected Health at Partners HealthCare and president-elect of the American Telemedicine Association, which represents the industry.

If a doctor does not offer televisits, the insurer may be able to connect the patient to a firm that does, often at no charge or a small copay.

Other tips include checking whether any information or forms must be signed, having an ID number or password ready if a practice requires them to connect to the visit, finding a quiet and private place for the visit, and charging the device the patient will use for the visit.

–Special to The Washington Post

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H E A LT H

Love Your Feet

too short. File sharp edges with an emery board. If you have a hard time reaching your nails, have decreased sensation, have circulatory issues or have diabetes, get an evaluation with a podiatrist for help.You may qualify for foot care by a podiatrist.

Get checked by a trained podiatrist if your nail is discolored, as that can be an indication of an underlying health issue.

A nail should be a pale pink where attached to the nail bed and the portion extending beyond should be opaque.

BY LAUREN LAROCCA SPECIAL TO THE NEWS-POST

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hile the eyes may be called the “windows of the soul,” there’s certainly something to be said for feet. Many people believe whole-body health and longevity can be attained by caring for the feet, and in fact, many religious traditions consider washing feet to be a sacred practice.

Especially as we age, caring for the feet becomes more important. This goes beyond choosing the right shoes, but we can start there. What follows are suggestions from experts on how to love and support your feet.

Support your feet—literally Shoes matter, and not just for athletes.

Run Moore, located in Westminster, offers customers a free gait analysis through its foot analyzer machine, Aetrex’s Albert Scanner, affectionately called “Albert” by store staff. The evaluation takes about 90 seconds to complete, and appointments aren’t necessary, though the store was temporarily closed at press time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but offering some virtual services.

With 16 cameras and thousands of sensors, the machine produces 3D images of each foot, showing pressure points, arch profile, width, height of instep and so on.These calculations allow staff to recommend three to four options to best support a customer’s particular foot profile.

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through pads.

“We can fix a dress shoe or running shoe by adding specific areas of support, kind of like getting new shocks for a car,” Moore said.

Maintain a healthy weight “We bear the entire weight of the body on our feet,” said Dr. Nikki Ho, a podiatry specialist at Frederick Foot & Ankle.

“We transmit a lot of force through our feet and ankles when we walk and run.

Even five pounds makes a difference.”

Maintaining a healthy weight minimizes the forces on the roughly three dozen joints in the foot and ankle. This is especially important in the population 55 or older, as they are more prone to developing arthritis in one or more of those joints.

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comes even more important.

“As we get older, our tendons get tighter and we become less flexible.

Staying hydrated and stretching helps us keep our flexibility and mobility,” said Ho, who recommends yoga as a great practice for those 55 or older, as it helps with stretching, strength, balance and overall mobility.

Practice good hygiene When it comes to foot hygiene, Ho recommends several daily practices: Wash feet with mild soap and water and make sure to wash and dry well between the toes.

Change socks daily—more often if your feet sweat. If you perspire a lot, rotate shoes more frequently to give them time to air out and/or spray them with disinfectant.

Trim nails regularly with clean clippers. Cut them straight across and not

Know when to see a podiatrist Routine appointments with a podiatrist are not necessary unless you have diabetes, circulation issues or neuropathy, Ho said, or if you have chronic arthritis in the foot or ankle, and instability or weakness.

Otherwise, you should check in with a physician if you notice any major changes, such as pain or a recent injury. New skin lesions or corns and callouses should also be checked.

Discoloration of the skin or nails can indicate an underlying health issue, and should not be ignored.

“Over 65% of people 65 and older have thickened nails,” Dr. Ho said. “They can become painful if left untreated.”

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CLUES ACROSS 1. American composer 6. Very fast aircraft 9. Workplaces 13. A mount on a surface 14. Small freshwater fish 15. Double-reed instrument 16. Canadian flyers 17. Famed astronomer 18. Smooth, shiny fabric 19. Profited 21. Conspiracy 22. Infections 23. Chum 24. Secondary school (abbr.)

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CLUES DOWN 1. Fruit of the service tree 2. At some prior time 3. Mongolian city __ Bator 4. Strongboxes 5. Russian river 6. Gurus 7. Horse mackerel 8. Pearl Jam’s debut album 9. Confines 10. First month of Jewish ecclesiastical year 11. Famed Idaho politician 12. Prevents from seeing 14. Indicate time 17. Male parents 20. Tab on a key ring 21. The Great Dog constellation: __ Major 23. Frying necessity 25. Former CIA 26. The leader 27. Produces 29. London soccer club 30. Closes 32. Region in the western Pacific Ocean 34. Not present 35. Small drink of whiskey 37. Begat 40. Helps little firms 42. Pointed end of a pen 43. Fencing swords 47. Inches per minute (abbr.)

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Volunteers and Recipients Five years ago, a Frederick NewsPost ad for PIC caught Mary Duvall’s eye. She’s been a volunteer ever since, and participated weekly as a driver.

“I love the friendships I have made as a volunteer driver,” she said. “I drive a Mini with a sunroof and some just love to ride in it. Now, how great is that to make someone smile when I drive up?”

Care recipient Doris Wright said that ever since she stopped driving several years ago, PIC has “been a godsend” for her. Once a week, a volunteer drove her to doctor’s appointments and took her to visit friends.

“It’s very expensive to get a taxi and

I really can’t afford that, so it’s wonderful to be able to have this service,” Wright said. “It gives me so much freedom.”

For many PIC volunteers and recipients like Beverly Shaw, one of the best parts of being involved with the organization are the friendships and positive interactions that come with it.

Shaw has volunteered weekly for the past eight months, pausing during the governor’s stay-at-home orders.

“I enjoy my time meeting the clients; it offers me social engagement,” she said. “It’s a win-win.”

Partners In Care, 5 Willowdale Drive, Willowtree Plaza, Frederick To become a volunteer, call 301-682-7433.

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