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Dance for Your Brain Women’s Health magazine Fay Jago, LPN reports puzzles and games Executive Director aren’t the only way to exercise David Trentham your brain. Any kind of dancing Director of Dietary with complex moves will give Sharen Janow your neurons a workout. Even Director of Activities the simplest moves provide Anna Johnson, LPN physical exercise. Director of Wellness Pay Attention Celebrate the Season One way to enhance your We’ve made it through winter ability to learn and remember is and April’s showers. Now it’s time to pay close attention. You must to enjoy May’s colorful flowers! learn something before you can A Figure of Speech remember it, and you won’t learn Phrase: The whole kit and something if you don’t pay caboodle A Senior Solutions Management Property enough attention to it. It takes Meaning: A collection of many about eight seconds of focus to items; everything. process a piece of information Origin: The words kit and into your memory. caboodle have similar meanings. For a Little Laugh A kit is a set of objects, as in a “Knowledge is knowing a toolkit or kit bag. A caboodle is a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not group or collection. The putting it in a fruit salad.” alliteration of the words probably —Miles Kington led to them first being combined in the phrase.

Positive Thought Build Your Bones Balance Tip “Youth is happy because it has A great way to keep your If you use reading glasses, be the ability to see beauty. Anyone bones healthy is by doing sure to only wear them when you who keeps the ability to see weight-bearing exercise. Walking, need to see up close, and take beauty never grows old.” dancing, playing golf and them off when you need to walk —Franz Kafka climbing stairs are all activities around. The glasses affect your ‘Menu’ Is One that force your skeleton to support your weight. This triggers depth perception and can cause How many words can you bone-building osteoblast cells to you to lose your balance and fall. come up with using the letters get to work. in “geranium”?

Become a Fan of Jamestowne Assisted Living on Facebook Bone Health and Osteoporosis Osteoporosis, a disease that affects millions of Americans, is characterized by a loss of bone density and strength, making bones fragile and more likely to break. Women are at a higher risk, but men can get osteoporosis, too. spine and back pain. Remember Me? Bones are living tissue that grows All adults should engage in habits and strengthens from the moment we that fight osteoporosis. A nutritious diet are born through young adulthood. with proper amounts of calcium and The popular Bone mass is then maintained by a vitamin D is key, as is weight-bearing television western process in which old bone is broken activity such as walking, jogging, “Gunsmoke” aired for down and new bone is created. As we tennis and dancing. Fall prevention is 20 years, and during age, the rate of bone formation slows. also important. those two decades, Too much bone mass loss results in It is recommended that women 65 James Arness osteoporosis, literally “porous bone.” or older be screened for osteoporosis portrayed Marshal Osteoporosis is sometimes called a by having a bone density test. Matt Dillon, who kept “silent disease” because there are the peace in 1870s usually no symptoms until a bone Dodge City, Kan. fractures. People with osteoporosis can Arness was born get a broken bone from a minor strain, May 26, 1923, in bump or fall. Any bone can be Minneapolis, Minn. affected, but injuries usually occur in While serving in the the hip, spine or wrist. The disease can U.S. Army in Italy in also cause a loss of height, a stooped 1944, he was hit by machine-gun fire that severely injured his right foot and leg. Morse, himself a pilot, solicited the Arness received a voluntary services of other pilots, and Bronze Star and Honor Flight was born. Purple Heart. Due to the overwhelming response While appearing in to the program, small, private aircraft several movies with have given way to commercial planes John Wayne, the two flying out of Honor Flight hubs from became friends, and Flights for Our Finest coast to coast. Wayne reportedly In May 2005, six small planes flew a A nonprofit organization funded by recommended dozen World War II veterans from donations, Honor Flight’s goal is that all Arness for the role of Springfield, Ohio, to visit the WWII U.S. veterans have the opportunity to Matt Dillon. Memorial in Washington, D.C. Since visit their particular memorial. There is Arness was 6 feet, that time, Honor Flight has made that no cost to the veterans to make the 7 inches tall and dream come true for more than trip. Currently, Honor Flight gives priority sometimes had to 100,000 veterans. to WWII veterans and veterans with stand in ditches The idea was the brainchild of Earl terminal illnesses. In the future, priority during filming so he Morse, a physician assistant and retired will shift to veterans of the Korean War wouldn’t tower over Air Force captain. Morse knew many and then the Vietnam War. his co-stars. veterans lacked the physical or To learn more about the program, financial ability to make the trip on visit www.HonorFlight.org. their own, but he believed it was important they have that opportunity. We believe that children who spend time with the elderly will develop the sense that they are linked to what has happened in the past. By listening to people who ‘saw it with their own eyes’ children can develop a sense of time and feel part of history and gradually realise that as they grow up they are Talk About It history in the making.

What’s Next? It’s May, when many students graduate and begin new chapters in their lives. Use the questions below to start a discussion about your own post- school experiences, as well as those of your friends and neighbors. • What was the highest grade of school you completed? How old were you when you finished? • Did you have a post-school plan, such as pursuing higher education or joining the military or workforce? • Did you pursue a career or marry your sweetheart and start a family? If you had it to do over again, would you have chosen the same path? If not, what would you have changed? SUDOKU Solution 2 1 9 3 4 8 6 6 4 8 5 5 3 2 7 9 5 7 9 2 7 9 1 5 7 1 3 8 3 4 6 3 4 8 2 1 6 6 8 7 5 1 6 4 9 7 7 6 2 4 3 5 8 2 2 4 1 5 8 2 1 3 4 1 9 9 1 9 8 9 6 3 5 8 7 7 5 3 4 6 2 5 2 7 4 5 1 8 8 4 8 4 3 7 5 1 6 1 6 6 1 7 5 7 3 8 4 9 2