50plus LIFE Dauphin County September 2018

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September 2018 • Vol. 20 No. 9

Senior Scams Evolve: Ploys Continue to Defraud Older Adults page 4

what to do when your doctor won’t listen page 3

art & antiques: the oprah exhibition page 12

Grief Relief

Victor Parachin

How Sheryl Sandberg Made Her Way Out of Grief

When Sheryl Sandberg’s husband, aged 47, died suddenly, she experienced a fear that was “constant” and a feeling that the “anguish would never subside.”

Sandberg, an American technology executive, recently authored the book, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy (with Adam Grant). There, Sandberg explains how she found the ways to climb out of bereavement.

have saved him if only I’d gotten to him sooner after he fell off the treadmill.”

An autopsy proved that her husband died in seconds — not from the fall, but from undiagnosed coronary artery disease.

“Not everything that happens to us is because of us,” she writes.

Pervasiveness – Thinking that a traumatic event will color everything forever.

As she began to blame herself less and as the intensity of grief began to ease, she started to notice that “not everything was terrible. My kids were crying less and sleeping through the night. We had financial resources and a wide circle of support. I have a job I love.”

She learned to become more resilient. “Resilience is like a muscle,” she writes. “It can be strengthened. But planting seeds of resilience and knowing they would eventually yield emotional stamina gave me hope.”

She avoided the three P’s. The three P’s, first written about by psychologist Martin Seligman, Ph.D., were the very tendencies that initially kept Sandberg from moving through grief.

They are:

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Personalization – The belief that she was at fault for what happened.

“At first I blamed myself for Dave’s death, worrying incessantly that I could

Permanence – The idea that the grief and pain she felt were permanent.

However, life is impermanent and changing constantly.

Gradually, “the fog of intense pain began to lift now and

then.”

As she began to feel and function better, she realized “that dealing with grief was like building physical endurance — you discover strength you didn’t know you had.”

She told others what she needed. Sandberg’s struggle and loneliness were compounded by daily interactions with others that made her feel worse “because others weren’t acknowledging what I was going through, out of politeness or awkwardness.”

She decided to write about how she felt on Facebook. The impact of her posts brought immediate, positive support.

“Many began acknowledging what I was going through. They couldn’t make it go away, but they could say, ‘I see it.’”

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She followed the platinum rule. Sandberg knew the “golden” rule: to treat others as you want to be treated.

When it comes to trauma, however, “we need to up our game and follow the platinum rule,” she says. “Treat others as they want to be treated.”

By becoming more in tune with a person’s suffering, we can respond with “understanding and thoughtful action,” she says.

She let herself bounce forward. To do this, Sandberg found that journaling was extremely helpful. Writing about her life after loss helped her “sort through my overwhelming feelings and my all-too-many regrets.”

On a daily basis for six months, Sandberg would write down three things she had done well that day. She learned that “people who suffer can bounce forward.” That’s the goal she had in mind for herself and her children.

She allowed herself to reclaim joy. “Slowly, very slowly, a new sense of perspective began seeping into my daily life,” she writes. “It is the irony of all ironies to experience tragedy and come out of it feeling more grateful.”

Sandberg began experiencing a greater appreciation for the parts of her life she took for granted: “family, friends, and simply being alive.”

Victor M. Parachin, M.Div., is a grief counselor, bereavement educator, and author of several books, including Healing Grief.

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What to Do When Your Doctor Won’t Listen

By Claire Galloway Being sick is bad enough. When your illness is difficult to diagnose, it’s even harder. But when you’re sick, suffering from mysterious symptoms, and your doctor dismisses your concerns — and you — it’s worse still.

“Of course doctors can’t know everything,” says activist Claire Galloway, author of A Call to Mind: A Story of Undiagnosed Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury (Brandylane Publishers, 2017). “But when patients — often women — find their condition undiagnosed and have their concerns dismissed, it can be truly disorienting.

“Untrained in medicine ourselves, we rely on doctors to help us when we’re sick,” says Galloway. “Most of the time, that system works. And, most of the time, our bodies would heal even without help.

“But, when they don’t, we need these doctors, and we rely on them to believe what we report to them. When they don’t, we initially feel humiliated to be discredited, but over time that humiliation grows into self-doubt.”

If you are struggling to make your doctor listen to your health concerns and take them seriously, Galloway says you can take action today.

These tips will help you advocate for yourself and your loved ones when you’re experiencing chronic or hard-to-diagnose symptoms.

Make a plan. As you notice symptoms, take the time to write them down; note the time of day and if there was an obvious trigger. Reread the notes to determine if there are correlations in time or activity day-to-day.

Take your notes and observations to your medical appointment, and prioritize your questions and concerns in order of importance to make the best use of time.

When you have an appointment, don’t go alone.

“Bring your spouse, a family member, or neighbor who can corroborate the symptoms you are reporting,” says Galloway.

“Having a trusted companion in your corner will help you present a united front that will be more difficult for the doctor to dismiss. In some cases, hiring a professional patient advocate might be advisable.”

Keep an updated log that highlights important details. Include a timeline with important dates, symptoms, doctor and hospital visits, and new prescriptions.

Email it to yourself whenever you update it and keep a few hard copies to hand to doctors. Mark key words in bold to make it easier for the doctor to scan items of importance. please see DOCTOR page 16

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Senior Scams Evolve: Ploys Continue to Defraud Older Adults

By Ismat Mangla Last October, my family members received a phone call from a company dubbed Utility Savings Expert, whose website (utilitysavingsexpert.net) features the tagline, “We are here to help you,” but omits the second half of the sentence: “… separate you from your money.”

The pitch was enticing: Utility Savings Expert claimed they could help customers save up to 50 percent on various bills, including cellphone, cable, electric, and more.

All you had to do was share your account information in order for them to pay the bill on your behalf. Once you checked to make sure the bill was covered, you simply wired the company half the full amount due.

The offer was so tempting that my family members, who are retired and live on a fixed income, decided to try it with their Sprint phone bill. They gave the scammers their Sprint account information, and a few days later, sure enough, their $250 bill had been paid in full.

Satisfied, they agreed to send half the amount to the Utility Savings Expert company. The catch? They could only send payment via wire transfer, not check or credit card.

That should have been a glaring red flag, says Brandy Bauer of the National Council on Aging.

“Legitimate companies won’t require you to pay only by wire transfer or reloadable debit card,” she says.

It wasn’t until about a month and a half after they wired the money that they noticed something wrong.

Sprint was charging them an additional $250 because a payment made on their account weeks ago had been reversed.

Here’s what most likely happened: The scammers called the issuer of the credit card they used to make the payment and alleged that it was a fraudulent charge — so the bank reversed the charge.

Of course, the victims were out the money they wired and still had to pay their Sprint bill.

New Twist on a Familiar Scam Phone scams targeting older Americans are certainly not new.

In fact, a 2015 study by True Link Financial estimates that seniors lose more than $36 billion each year to various kinds of financial abuse, including scams that prey on victims by luring them to send money over the phone.

And that’s just the ones that are known: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimates that only 1 in 44 financial crimes against elders is

actually reported.

What is new, however, is the way fraudsters lure their targets. Criminals continually invent new ways to entrap unsuspecting Americans — very often seniors — into giving out personal information or money over the phone.

The Evolution of a Scam Scammers are also experts at developing sophisticated and convincing stories to persuade you to work with them. When I called Utility Savings Expert posing as a customer to inquire about their services, I asked how they were able to offer these discounts.

“We have accounts and contracts with service providers all over the U.S.,” said Naveed, who declined to give me his last name. He added that the company earned gift cards from these contracts, which they used to pay the bills.

They could then pass on the savings to customers, whom they only charged half the price of the bill due. This explanation was convincing enough for my relatives to fall for the scam. (When I called the company a second time, no one answered or returned my calls.)

None of the scam experts I spoke to had ever heard of this particular phone scam, nor did a Google search turn up any information on the company. But neither were they surprised by the phone scam’s new incarnation.

“I’ve heard and seen a lot of phone scams, but not that one,” says Curtis Bailey, an elder law attorney in St. Louis, Missouri, who also hosts a fraud podcast called Scamcast.

“These scammers just continue to evolve and change. I can see how easy it would be for people to fall victim to this one, because who doesn’t want to pay less for a phone or utility bill?”

Frank Dorman, of the Federal Trade Commission, which handles these types of scams, says that the agency has never logged this particular scheme.

The FTC advises never to do business with someone unless you know and trust them — and especially never to send money or financial account information.

“In this case, a phone call to the utility company should reveal whether or not the utility has an arrangement with a third party, and if not, which is likely, report the scam to state and local law enforcement and the FTC,” says Dorman.

Another twist in this particular scheme: The scammers spoke to my relatives in Urdu, which is their native language. Bailey says that doesn’t surprise him at all, as fraudsters will often exploit affinity relationships to build trust. www.50plusLifePA.com

“A lot of people don’t understand that what makes scammers more effective is that they will push certain emotional levers, like fear and greed. But another one is sympathy,” says Bailey. “A victim might think, ‘I identify with the caller and trust him because he’s speaking my native tongue.’

“This is just another tactic these criminals use to generate a false sense of trust so the victim will be manipulated into sending money or give out personal information.”

The Likely Victims Indeed, True Link Financial’s study concluded that $6.7 billion worth of senior scams occur because the criminals take advantage of a trusting relationship to scam seniors.

Amy Nofziger, a fraud expert at AARP, says that scammers specifically target older Americans because they are more likely to be successful with them.

Older adults often don’t want to seem rude on the phone, and they are often more vulnerable because they are living on fixed incomes. Many older Americans have also built up some wealth, making them an attractive target.

And while cognitive decline can certainly contribute to a victim’s vulnerability, you don’t have to experience cognitive decline to be a victim. In fact, a new study in the American Journal of Public Health concluded that each year, 1 in 18 “cognitively intact” older adults becomes a victim of financial scams or abuse.

And once someone is the target of a phone scam or other fraud scheme, it’s very likely they will be targeted again, says Nicole K. Parshall, a staff attorney who specializes in consumer protection at the Center for Elder Law and Justice in Buffalo, New York.

“These criminals share ‘suckers’ lists — they are a commodity bought and sold between various scammers. They also target people who engage in certain activities, like playing the lottery or things like Publisher’s Clearing House,” she says.

Because these crimes often go unreported and cause a lot of shame and embarrassment to the targets, they are even more susceptible to falling victim more than once.

How to Avoid Being Scammed Whether a phone scammer is enticing you to save money on your utilities, threatening to shut off your electricity unless you pay an outstanding bill immediately, or pitching an unbelievably “low-cost” vacation opportunity, the most important thing you can do is to simply hang up the phone.

“We tell people to screen their calls and not pick up unless they recognize the number,” says Parshall. “And if you did pick up, the second someone asks for any personal information or anything to do with money, just hang up.

Don’t feel bad about it — you did not invite them in. They’re entering your space.”

If you have entered into a conversation with someone who is trying to sell you a product or convince you to engage in a service, tell them you need some time to think about it. No legitimate offer or service is going to evaporate after you hang up the phone.

“If something sparks your interest, hang up anyway, do your own research, and run it by a family member or friend,” says Parshall. “Sometimes just hearing yourself say it out loud is enough to give you pause.”

Giving yourself time also allows your more rational urges to kick in.

And remember that no legitimate company is going to limit your payment method, which is what Utility Savings Expert did. They claimed they could not receive payment by check or credit card — only wire transfers.

Similarly, a legitimate operation will never ask you to volunteer personal information, like your Social Security number or even account data. That’s another huge red flag.

If your utility company, for example, needed to contact you for an outstanding balance, they would never do it over the phone until you’d received numerous written notices from them. And even then, they would never ask you to offer personal information. www.50plusLifePA.com

If you are concerned, hang up and call your utility company using the number indicated on your written statement.

What to Do If You Become a Victim Prevention is vital in these situations because in most cases, it can be difficult to recover swindled money.

But if you have been defrauded, the first thing you should do is file a police report. That is an important step in getting things on the record — and may help in getting your money back from the bank.

For example, my relatives should file a police report and then take it to their bank to demonstrate that they were defrauded. In some cases, the bank might make you whole.

“With a wire transfer, your recourse is to go back to the bank, show them the police report, explain everything that happened, and they might replace the money,” says Bailey. “Every bank treats these kinds of situations differently.”

Parshall adds that while some police departments may give you pushback, persist in getting that report filed because it can be used to help you set up a permanent fraud alert, and as evidence, if the issue comes back to haunt you further.

Next, you may also want to report it to the FBI or to relevant state and federal agencies. You can file complaints with the Federal Trade Commission.

Your state’s attorney general office is also a good place to log the incident; they may have a division devoted specifically to such scams.

You should also check with your county or state to see if they have an organization devoted to helping seniors with financial fraud. Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services’ Adult Protective Services agency can be reached at (717) 736-7116 or (800) 490-8505.

“The biggest hurdle we have in getting people to open up and report these things is that they’re embarrassed, angry, [and] fearful, which makes them reluctant,” says Bailey.

“But we encourage people to speak out. The key is to be vigilant, be educated, learn as much as you can about the scams out there. Be open. Don’t be afraid to talk to your family about it. It goes both ways — from kids to parents and vice versa.”

I talked to my own relatives about their experience, who did feel some embarrassment at being duped. But they also said they learned their lesson and don’t plan to answer phone calls from people they don’t know in the future — a lesson that cost them $200. It’s a mistake they don’t plan to repeat.

This article originally appeared on the Experian blog (www.experian.com/blogs/ ask-experian/my-relatives-fell-for-this-new-scam-be-on-the-lookout).

Ismat Sarah Mangla is an award-winning veteran journalist whose writing has appeared in Time, Fortune, Money, CNNMoney, Quartz, MarketWatch, Al Jazeera America, International Business Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Detroit Free Press, and Michigan Alumnus magazine.

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Kids at Risk? Grandparents to the Rescue

By Robert Martin

grandchildren so they can give much-needed help.

This includes offering support to many of the estimated 21 million children being raised by 13.6 million single parents in the U.S., as well as in households where both parents work fulltime. Grandparents can provide childcare while parents work, transport kids to and from school and appointments, attend school events and teacher conferences, and give parents a much-needed break.

Many parents today raise their kids without much community support or in the face of negative influences, such as poverty, gangs, crime, and drugs. And regardless of socioeconomic status, all kids face challenges — some old, some new.

Bullying has always existed, yet previous generations did not have to cope with cyberbullying or contend with the amplifying effect social media has on who feels “in” and who is “out.”

In a time when the worst kinds of negative influences are a click away for many kids, grandparents can provide love, support, and positive influences.

Here are some ways you can show your grandkids you love them, care about them, and are there for them:

Grandparents today are taking a larger role in the lives of their grandchildren, sharing the kids’ worries and joys, giving them love and support, and helping out harried and exhausted parents.

With the retirement of the baby boomer generation, there are more grandparents than ever — an estimated 70 million in the U.S. Compared to previous generations, today’s grandparents are generally younger, more active, and more affluent, allowing many to travel frequently to visit their kids and grandkids.

One in five grandparents provides childcare regularly to their grandchildren, while increasing numbers are raising their grandkids alone, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins testified last year before the Senate Special Committee on Aging.

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2. Share compassionately. If you ask how they are doing, kids’ response will almost always be “fine.” Getting them to open up means first earning their trust. Try sharing a story about how you went through something similar when you were growing up.

Showing your vulnerability will help them open up.

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Encourage your grandkids to share what they love to do and uplift them with praise for good grades in school, acts of good citizenship with their friends and classmates, and their creative endeavors. By praising your grandkids for specific accomplishments, you can help them understand the difference between recognition that is earned and hyperbole.

Some additional ways you can be a loving, involved grandparent for the kids in your life: • Help them with their homework.

Maybe you can help tutor them, provide an extra pair of hands for their school projects, or brainstorm ideas together.

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As a grandparent, you can be a wise friend, a playful elder, and the go-to person for your grandkids when their parents aren’t available. By spending time together and staying in touch, you can uplift them and give them the sense of safety and stability they need to thrive and grow.

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Art & Antiques by Dr. Lori

The Oprah Exhibition Lori Verderame

“Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and American Culture” exhibition opened in June at the National Museum of African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the exhibition will be on view through June 2019.

The exhibition explores the era that shaped Oprah Winfrey’s life and early career in television and continues to highlight the impact of her long-running television talk show, which dominated daytime television for 25 years.

Also, “Watching Oprah” shows how Winfrey and her work in broadcast journalism have influenced American popular culture.

Featuring original artifacts from Harpo Studios in Chicago and from the Smithsonian collections, such as photographs, video clips, other vintage materials, the exhibition was co-curated by Rhea Combs and Kathleen Kendrick.

Artifacts have been part of Winfrey’s allure for some time, and the television powerhouse is no stranger to art, antiques, and collectibles. At a recent auction of her personal belongings, Winfrey sold off many items that no longer fit the way she wants to live.

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An important tip I share with my clients when I consult with them and conduct in-home appraisal sessions or video chat appraisals is to select 10 precious objects that you just will not give up. After that, prioritize objects that you can sell by getting input from family members.

Photo credit: Lindsey Koren (Smithsonian) Did you know that Winfrey loves The exhibit features video clips, interactive interviews with Winfrey, dolls? She noted in an interview costumes from her films, and artifacts from Harpo Studios in Chicago. that she was not allowed to have dolls growing up, so as an adult, she collected antique and vintage dolls. Winfrey’s rare, dark-skinned Jumeau doll from the 1800s was an object she put a high priority on and was not willing to sell. You may have items like this in your collection too.

Winfrey sold off a massive 19thcentury French crystal chandelier attributed to Baccarat; an original canvas banner for her film, The Color Purple; a brass bed designed especially for napping; comfy sofas from her movie-screening room; Photo credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of Photo credit: Lindsey Koren (Smithsonian) African American History and Culture, gift of Oprah Winfrey. a set of library steps; armoires in Oprah Winfrey speaking in June at the Suit worn by Winfrey on the opening reception for the “Watching various woods and styles; chairs car-giveaway episode, 2004.

Oprah” exhibit at the National from her office at Harpo Studios Museum of African American History dating to circa 1996; Staffordshire and Culture of the Smithsonian lions; and the list goes on.

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The auction raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to further the education advertisers, of all the graduates of Oprah’s Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. please let them The exhibition at the Smithsonian will certainly attract many visitors and give patrons a look at how a talk show host with a vision can have a major know you saw impact on American culture and the future of education around the globe.

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Calendar of Events

Support Groups Free and open to the public Tuesdays, noon Al-Anon Family Group at Work Meeting Penn State Hershey Medical Center Seventh Floor, Room C7521 500 University Drive, Hershey (717) 448-7881 Other meeting times/locations at www.pa-al-anon.org Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

Swatara Serenity Al-Anon Family Group Meeting Unitarian Church of Harrisburg 1280 Clover Lane, Harrisburg (717) 448-7881 Other meeting times/locations at www.pa-al-anon.org Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.

Adult Children of Alcoholics Support Group St. Mark’s Lutheran Church 2200 Londonderry Road Harrisburg (717) 526-9252 ymt57@comcast.net Sept. 5 and 19, 7-8:30 p.m.

ANAD Eating Disorders Support Group PinnacleHealth Polyclinic

Landis Building, Sixth Floor Classroom 1 2501 N. Third St., Harrisburg (717) 712-9535 Sept. 6, 7-8 p.m.

Fibromyalgia Support Group LeVan Chiropractic 1000 Briarsdale Road, Suite C Harrisburg (717) 558-3500 Sept. 11, 6-7 p.m.

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group Greenfield Senior Living at Graysonview 150 Kempton Ave., Harrisburg (717) 561-8010 Sept. 12, 6-7 p.m.

Alzheimer’s Support Group Brookdale Harrisburg 3560 N. Progress Ave., Harrisburg (717) 671-4700 Sept. 17, 6:30 p.m.

Support Group for Families of Those with Memory-Related Illnesses Frey Village 1020 N. Union St., Middletown (717) 930-1218

Senior Center Activities Sept. 19, 2-4 p.m.

Parkinson’s Support Group The Residence of the Jewish Home Second Floor Library 4004 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 697-2513 Sept. 20, 6 p.m.

Alzheimer’s Support Group Country Meadows of Hershey Second Floor Training Room 451 Sand Hill Road, Hershey (717) 533-6996 astoner@countrymeadows.com Sept. 20, 6-8 p.m.

Harrisburg Area Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver Support Group Giant Food Stores – Second Floor 2300 Linglestown Road Harrisburg (717) 580-7772 Sept. 26, 7-8 p.m.

Connections Support Group: Families of Memory Impaired Ecumenical Retirement Community Building 3, Second Floor 3525 Canby St., Harrisburg (717) 561-2590

Community Programs

Free and open to the public

Sept. 5, 7 p.m.

World Culture Club of Central Pennsylvania Meeting Penn State Hershey Medical Center Fifth Floor, Lecture Room B 500 University Drive, Hershey www.worldcultureclubpa.org

Sept. 18, 10 a.m.

Hershey’s Bygone Era Derry Seniors Derry Presbyterian Church 248 E. Derry Road, Hershey (717) 533-9667 www.derrypres.org

Sept. 6, 7 p.m.

Central Pennsylvania World War II Roundtable Meeting Grace United Methodist Church 433 E. Main St., Hummelstown (717) 503-2862 charlie.centralpaww2rt@gmail.com www.centralpaww2roundtable.org

Sept. 24, 8:30 a.m. to noon Free Blood Pressure Checks Colonial Park Mall Food Court Area 4600 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 972-4289 https://events.geisinger.org

Sept. 13, 7:30 p.m.

Central Pennsylvania Vietnam Roundtable Meeting Vietnam Veterans of America, Michael Novosel MOH Chapter 542 8000 Derry St., Harrisburg (717) 545-2336 centralpavietnamrt@verizon.net www.centralpavietnamroundtable. org

Sept. 26, 7 p.m.

Piecemakers Quilt Guild of Middletown St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Spring and Union streets Middletown (717) 915-5555 gsk1308@gmail.com

Sept. 25, 6 p.m.

Susquehanna Rovers Volksmarch Walking Club Bass Pro Shop – Hunt Room Harrisburg Mall 3501 Paxton St., Harrisburg (717) 805-9540

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PARKS & RECREATION Weekdays, Sept. 5-28, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. – A rchaeological Excavation, Fort Hunter Mansion Sept. 9, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Gallery Walk Exhibit, Wildwood Park Sept. 23, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Celebrate Wildwood Day, Wildwood Park

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Friendship Senior Center – (717) 657-1547 Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 8-9 a.m. – Light Aerobics Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m. – Mah Jong Mohler Senior Center – (717) 533-2002 www.hersheyseniorcenter.com Sept. 14 and 28, 12: 30-1:30 p.m. – Journey to a Healthy Self Support Group Rutherford House – (717) 564-5682 www.rutherfordcenter.org Mondays, 10 a.m. – Line Dancing Mondays and Fridays, 11 a.m. – Chair Yoga Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. – Art Class Submit senior center events to mjoyce@onlinepub.com.

Library Programs East Shore Area Library, 4501 Ethel St., Harrisburg, (717) 652-9380 Wednesdays in September, 1-3 p.m. – Learn to Play Bridge Sept. 9, 1-2 p.m. – John Haigh: Air Force One Chief Steward Sept. 10, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – The Power of Decluttering Elizabethville Area Library, 80 N. Market St., Elizabethville, (717) 362-9825 Sept. 6, 1-2:30 p.m. – Basic Internet I Sept. 20, 1-2:30 p.m. – Basic Internet II Sept. 27, 7-8 p.m. – A Tribute to Mark Twain Kline Library, 530 S. 29th St., Harrisburg, (717) 2343934 Sept. 6, 1-2:30 p.m. – Basic Internet I Sept. 15, noon to 4 p.m. – Board Game Day for Adults Sept. 25, 7-8 p.m. – A Tribute to Mark Twain Madeline L. Olewine Memorial Library, 2410 N. Third St., Harrisburg, (717) 232-7286 Sept. 24, 6-7 p.m. – Cookbook Book Club: Latino Kitchen McCormick Riverfront Library, 101 Walnut St., Harrisburg, (717) 234-4976 Wednesdays in September, 1-3 p.m. – Midday Getaway Sept. 21, 6-7 p.m. – Bad Art Night Middletown Public Library, 20 N. Catherine St., Middletown, (717) 944-6412 Sept. 3, 10, 17, 24, 6-7 p.m. – Evening Family Yoga Sept. 6, 6-7 p.m. – Book Club Sept. 17, 6-7 p.m. – Mystery Book Club Northern Dauphin Library, 683 Main St., Lykens, (717) 453-9315 Sept. 15, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Fall Wreath-making Workshop Sept. 26, 6-8 p.m. – Knit 1, Crochet Too! William H. & Marion C. Alexander Family Library, 200 W. Second St., Hummelstown, (717) 566-0949 Sept. 4, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – Novel Thoughts Book Club Sept. 10, 6-7 p.m. – Mary Sachs Series: Basic Car Maintenance Sept. 12, 6-8 p.m. – Second Wednesday Cinema

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Fifties Flashback

‘Don’t Worry … He Sees Us’ Randal C. Hill

Two more Dean films followed. Rebel Without a Cause, Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper once saw his ticket to stardom, had him (at age 24) playing troubled James Dean as an obnoxious attention-seeker in the Marlon Brando vein (she abhorred Brando) and even labeled Dean adolescent Jim Stark. In Giant, Dean portrayed Jett Rink, a Texas ranch hand who strikes oil and becomes rich. “another dirty shirttail actor.”

Away from the movie set, Dean nurtured a second Then she saw East of Eden, underwent an instant passion: auto racing. On Sept. 30, 1955, he and Porsche conversion, and enthused, “I couldn’t remember ever having seen a young man with such power.” mechanic pal Rolf Wutherich roared north from Los Angeles, bound for a race in Salinas, near the Bay Area.

James Byron Dean was born in Marion, Indiana, on Feb. 8, 1931, the only child of Winton and Mildred Dean. The Dean was behind the wheel of his powerful new Porsche 550 Spyder. family moved to Santa Monica, California, where Winton That afternoon, at a deserted intersection near the central worked as a dental technician.

California village of Cholame, Dean ran his car into a 1950 Mildred died of cancer in 1940, and Winton sent his Ford being driven by college student Donald Turnupseed, young son back to Indiana to live with his grandparents on their Fairmount farm. who had turned into the Porsche’s path.

Turnupseed and Wutherich survived the crash, but Dean At Fairmount High School Dean excelled in dramatics and public speaking and lettered in baseball and basketball. broke his neck and died at the scene. His ironic final words James Byron Dean to Wutherich: “Don’t worry, that guy’ll stop. He sees us.”

After his 1949 graduation he returned to California to live At the time, only East of Eden had been released, and with his father and stepmother.

Dean wasn’t famous yet. Rebel Without a Cause — his best-known work — Dean considered becoming a lawyer but eventually pursued a stronger premiered three days after his demise, and Giant wouldn’t open until 1956. passion when he enrolled at UCLA to study drama.

Early in 1951 he left school to chase his acting dreams. He moved to New But his death created a tsunami of posthumous worship, and he remains to York, won some minor TV roles, and studied method acting in Lee Strasberg’s this day one of the iconic Tinseltown superstars of the 1950s.

James Dean once said, “If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, Actors Studio, where Dean’s idol, Marlon Brando, had once been a student.

I mean, if he can live on after he’s died, then maybe he was a great man.”

In 1954 director Elia Kazan sought “a Brando” for the role of Cal Trask in Kazan’s forthcoming movie East of Eden, based on John Steinbeck’s novel.

Kazan hired the churlish actor, later allowing him to improvise a few East of Although Randal C. Hill’s heart lives in the past, the rest of him resides in Bandon, Ore. He can be reached at wryterhill@msn.com.

Eden scenes. (Steinbeck had instantly disliked the sullen superstar-to-be when they first met.)

Registration Open for Pa.’s LGBTQ Aging Summit Registration for Pennsylvania’s Inaugural LGBTQ Aging Summit is now open.

As a result of grassroots efforts made by numerous LGBTQ and senior advocacy groups, the summit will be held Oct. 9-10 in Harrisburg.

“As we developed Pennsylvania’s 2016-2020 State Plan on Aging, we heard from many stakeholders who were calling for increased cultural competency, a better focus on serving diverse and hard-to-reach populations, and overall improvement of awareness and access to services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer older Pennsylvanians and their caregivers,” said Secretary of Aging Teresa Osborne.

“We intend for this summit to serve as the catalyst to connect the aging-services network directly with the LGBTQ senior community so that together we can help drive much-needed change to better serve this population.”

To plan for the summit, the Pennsylvania Department of Aging partnered with numerous LGBTQ and aging stakeholders.

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Pennsylvanians to directly engage with the provider networks responsible for caring for us as we grow older,” said LGBT Elder Initiative founder Heshie Zinman.

“By bringing together LGBTQ older adult communities and aging-services providers, we have the opportunity to better understand barriers to accessing services and to develop strategies that will improve the care of our LGBTQ seniors statewide.”

In addition to coordinating the first statewide LGBTQ aging summit, the Department of Aging is represented on Gov. Wolf’s LGBT Workgroup, has held training sessions to improve cultural competency inside aging services for LGBTQ older adults, and has participated in roundtable discussions to hear directly from the LGBTQ community on how to better meet

their needs.

To learn more about Pennsylvania’s Inaugural LGBTQ Aging Summit or to register to attend, visit ltltrainingpa.org. For more on the Department of Aging, visit aging.pa.gov.

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You’ve handed in your Open a small keys. business, become a tour It was a bittersweet guide around town, get moment, that passa pet, or find a volunteer along. Cleaning out your position with animals; in workspace was no big fact, volunteer anywhere deal, a last trip to the you feel there’s a need. lunchroom felt like any Finally, before you other day. But those keys do anything at all, … that part really got to “test-drive first.” Try on you. new tasks. Rent before Retirement Reinvention buying. You’ll have a

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HERD from page 11 “I was in and out of Boston Children’s Hospital.

Lying there, month after month, you become very stoic.

It really stimulated my imagination and I think actually helped me later as an actor.”

Fortunately, in the early 1940s, a new wonder drug became available to treat infection, and young Herd was one of the earliest patients to receive the medication.

“Penicillin knocked out the infection and saved my life.”

Given a youthful second chance, Herd was determined to succeed in his career goals. In addition to acting, he is a musician and singer. He crafts jewelry, writes poetry and plays, and is an established artist with many exhibitions to his credit (see www.richardherd. com).

“I’m a primitive abstract impressionist and work with oil and acrylic.”

Herd, who turns 86 in September, says he continues to look for interesting roles and has worked on several films in production this year, including The Silent Natural, The Oath, and The Mule with Clint Eastward, in which he plays Eastwood’s best friend.

“You have to seek your individuality and find what works for you, whatever your career goal,” he adds.

“You won’t succeed unless you have heart and soul, and understanding and desire.”

Photo provided by Richard Herd

Richard Herd in his home studio.

Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery, Ala., and has written features, columns, and interviews for over 700 newspapers and magazines.

DOCTOR from page 3 Do your own research. Go to the library or go online to learn all you can about your (or your loved one’s) symptoms. Make copies of supporting evidence.

You might also want to contact local or national medical agencies to gather substantive information that matches your concerns. Take this documentation to your medical appointments as supportive evidence.

Try to maintain composure. Staying calm during your appointment and presenting your concerns in a quantitative and objective manner, rather than emotionally, will help.

When you feel frustrated in the midst of being dismissed and ignored, take a deep breath to maintain composure and refocus your energies back to what is important.

Repeat yourself when necessary. “Speak up, even interrupt, during your allocated short appointment time,” says Galloway. “Make sure your concerns are being heard correctly and understood. Don’t be embarrassed to repeat yourself.

“Ask questions that reflect concern, like: ‘How will this medicine or treatment help?’ Or, ‘Why is my loved one not getting this treatment?’”

Make sure you understand instructions and the diagnosis. Repeat back your understanding of what the doctor is saying, so they can correct you if you have misunderstood.

If you feel uncomfortable, say so. If your doctor is being condescending, you can speak your mind. Simply say, “I’m uncomfortable with the way you are speaking to me.”

Ask for access to your medical records. You have the right to review your medical records (with a few exceptions) through the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), but these can be difficult to obtain.

Some doctors maintain access through an online patient portal, though sometimes the doctor’s notes are not included. You can also go through a patient records department and might be charged a fee.

If you think the information in your records is incorrect, HIPAA gives you the right to request amendments to your records. Some doctors may have left a note in your records that could be hindering you from being taken seriously.

Even if a note by a previous doctor can’t be taken off, knowing it is there gives you the opportunity to explain and discuss it when you go in for an appointment with a new doctor.

“If you feel like your doctor isn’t taking your concerns seriously, it’s crucial not to give up or start doubting yourself,” concludes Galloway.

“You know your body better than anyone else, and you have every right to fight for the correct diagnosis. These tools can help you keep advocating for yourself or for someone you love.”

Claire Galloway is the author of A Call to Mind: A Story of Undiagnosed Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury. She has been advocating for greater awareness of closed-head traumatic brain injury in children since 2008. www.acalltomindtbi.com

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Fresh Fare

Make it Mediterranean Just like forward-thinking culinary artists, many at-home chefs seek out the next trendy flavor to provide friends and family gathered around the table.

When pondering which trend you’ll dive into in the future, consider incorporating tastes from an especially influential international location: the Mediterranean Sea region.

Considered by the experts at Les Dames d’Escoffier International (LDEI) in the organization’s 2018 Trends Report to be one of the most influential parts of the world on the American food scene, flavors from the Mediterranean Sea focus on a diet heavy on fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, seeds, and nuts.

Take this hummus recipe, for example, which involves processing a host of beans, seeds, and seasonings to create a light, smooth dip to serve with anything from vegetables to crackers.

Because the fare is typically lighter, small bites and salads such as this tomato, feta, and basil salad provide easy-to-prepare versions of Mediterranean cuisine.

Incorporating vegetables (tomatoes and basil) along with the salty, milky flavors of feta cheese makes the salad a distinctly Mediterranean dish.

Find full results from the report and learn more about the organization at LDEI.org.

• 3 teaspoons sea salt

Tomato, Feta, and Basil Salad Recipe courtesy of Beth Vlasich Pav of Cooking by Design, LLC, on behalf of Les Dames d’Escoffier International Servings: 15-20

• 1 teaspoon toasted sesame seeds

• 8 medium-size tomatoes, sliced into 1/8-inch slices • 1 block (8 ounces) feta cheese, sliced into 1/8-inch pieces

• 1/4 cup olive oil On large platter, arrange slices of tomato and feta so they overlap. Place basil leaf between each tomato and feta slice. Repeat.

Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Drizzle with olive oil. Serve immediately.

Hummus Recipe courtesy of Beth Vlasich Pav of Cooking

by Design, LLC, on behalf of Les Dames d’Escoffier International Yield: 2 cups • 2 cans (15 ounces each) garbanzo beans • 1 medium garlic clove, peeled • 1 teaspoon sesame oil • 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice • 2 teaspoons sea salt • 1 teaspoon fresh ground pepper • 1 teaspoon black sesame seeds • 1 teaspoon olive oil

Drain garbanzo beans, reserving 1/2 cup liquid.

In food processor, process garbanzo beans, garlic, Photos courtesy of Beth Vlasich Pav. sesame oil, lemon juice, salt, and pepper until incorporated. Stop and scrape down sides of bowl. Add garbanzo liquid and process until smooth.

Scoop mixture into medium bowl, add black sesame seeds, and mix gently.

Serve with drizzle of olive oil. Sprinkle toasted sesame seeds on top.

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