E d u c a t i o n For Senior O l d e r A d u l t s Mountie S p e c i a l p o i n t s o f i n t e r e s t : Winter 2014

 65+ will double 2014...Year2014...Year ofof thethe Boomer!Boomer! to 71.5 million by 2030

 Sleep plays a What do First Lady Michelle 25% of the total U.S. population of Summer 1967 - The "Summer of key role in Obama, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, 311,591,917. (as of July 2011) Love" and the hippie countercul- memory for- and actress Sandra Bullock have in ture of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll. mation Boomers work past retirement, common? They’re all baby boom- only 11% plan to stop working en- 1968 - Women's Liberation and  Results of the ers, and they’re all turning 50 in tirely. A survey by AARP reveals the feminist movement begins. The brain training 2014. suggest that it most boomers plan to work "until oldest boomers are 22. helped partici- About one in four Americans were they drop". December 1, 1969 - The first Se- pants carry out born between 1946 and 1964 and everyday activi- December 31, 2029 - The last of lective Service lottery since 1942 ties as if they thus belong to the baby boomer is held The lottery is for armed were about 10 generation. While many of the . years younger oldest boomers have already forces inductees for 1970. Only exited the workforce, the males 18-26 are eligible. Septem- youngest boomers are just hit- ber 14 is drawn first. The oldest ting the half-century mark. the boomers are 23. “Baby boomers, a generation January 22, 1973 - Roe v Wade that because of its sheer size makes abortion legal in the U.S. has dominated the country’s March 12, 1975 - The last Selec- Inside this economy and politics for decades, the boomers will turn 65. The 65+ tive Service lottery. The oldest i s s u e : continues steadily marching to- population segment is projected to boomers are 29. The system is ward retirement,” says the Wall double to 71.5 million by 2030 and suspended on April 1 and registra- I am a Mountie 2 Street Journal. “Boomers make up grow to 86.7 million by 2050. Pos- tion for the draft is suspended in roughly a quarter of the U.S. popu- sibly eighty million plus will be on January 1976. lation, so their decisions and ac- Medicare and Social Security. March 9, 1983 - Legislation passes Brain Training 2 tions are closely tied to the state Study Defining Events: raising the retirement age, with of the nation as a whole.” 1945-1947 - World War II veter- full Social Security benefits, from Sleep Study 3 Here's a look at what you need to ans return home from Europe and 65 to 67 to begin in 2000. know about the Baby Boomer gen- the Pacific in droves. The wounded January 20, 1993 - Bill Clinton eration, the generation of Ameri- had begun returning earlier. (August 19, 1946), is sworn in as Rebus 3 cans born between 1946, the end Brainteaser July 27, 1953 - Korean War ends the 42nd president of the United of World War II, and 1964. They and veterans return home. States, the first boomer in the are the largest generation of Baby Boomer 4 White House. Quiz Americans born in U.S. history. May 17, 1954 - U.S. Supreme Court desegregates schools in Brown v. Source: http:// Statistics: Board of Education. Boomers are seniorhousing- Semester Date 6 77.3 million Baby Boomers (as of and Contacts the first elementary school gener- news.com/2014/01/13/sandra- 2008). ation to attend integrated schools. bullock-jeff-bezos-all-the- January 1, 1996 - The first of the youngest-boomers-turn-50-this- June 23, 1960 - The FDA approves baby boomers turn 50. year/ an oral contraceptive, Enovid (The January 1, 2011 - The first of the Pill), for sale in the U.S. and boomers turns 65. Approximately 1964-1975 - Vietnam War, the war http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/06/ two-thirds of all seniors 65 and boomers fought in and protested us/baby-boomer-generation-fast- over and 60% of those 50-64 have against. The average age of com- facts/ at least one chronic disease. bat soldiers is 19. Boomers make up approximately P a g e 2 Youngdoug Kim...I am a Mountie

Youngdoug Kim is a student in Linda Chang’s Digital Photog- raphy class and is also an active member in the The Pho- tographers Society of Southern California (PSSC). The Photographers Society of Southern California is a non- profit organization. PSSC goals are to promote the devel- opment of photography and to provide the public with vol- untary services for the benefit of local communities. Youngdoug Kim has been a member of the PSSC since 2012 and in July 2013 he participated in Group PSSC Exhibition at the Los Angeles City Hall Bridge Gallery (Los Angeles, CA). Youngdoug’s photo (left) was published in the 2013 Photo Exhibition “Riches of the Land Korea”

Brain training helped older adults stay sharp for years: study “Ten years A first-of-its kind study finds market involve computer ex- Society. after the training, there that older adults who engaged ercises. But in the new study, Study co-author Sharon was evidence in brain training retained researchers used paper-and- Tennstedt, vice president of the effects measurable benefits up to 10 pencil tests that honed prob- New England Research Insti- were durable years later, suggesting that lem-solving involving letter tutes, said results of the brain for the reasoning and such interventions may help and number patterns, in addi- training suggest that it helped the speed stave off impairments of aging tion to computer drills that participants carry out everyday training" that rob seniors of their inde- tested the ability to quickly activities as if they were about pendence. distinguish an image among a 10 years younger, allowing constantly changing screen. someone at 80 to function The trial, which involved Just one computer drill used more like a typical 70-year-old. roughly 2,800 participants in the study is on the market, “If these training interventions from across the country, is by and it has been altered from can have that kind of effect on far the largest and longest such the version used by research- preserving cognitive function, study to date. As baby boomers ers. The latest trial found that then there is potential for ei- search for ways to stay mental- nearly three-quarters of those ther delaying dementia or kind ly sharp, the popularity of brain who participated in reasoning of attenuating it,” said games has soared in recent exercises and information- Tennstedt. She stressed that years, but researchers have processing drills still dis- the findings do not indicate decried a lack of rigorous evi- played those abilities a decade brain-training is a way to pre- dence showing these interven- later. The federally funded vent dementia, but rather to tions are effective in the long study appears in the Journal slow its arrival. term. Most brain games on the of the American Geriatrics

Senior Mountie New Study Finds Brains Flush Toxic Waste in Sleep P a g e 3

While we are byproducts include beta-amyloid which they dubbed the glym- asleep, our protein, clumps of which form phatic system. It works by bodies may plaques found in the brains of circulating cerebrospinal fluid be resting, but our Alzheimer’s patients. Staying up throughout the brain tissue brains are all night could prevent the brain and flushing any resulting busy taking from getting rid of these toxins waste into the bloodstream, out the trash. as efficiently, and explain why which then carries it to the sleep deprivation has such strong liver for detoxification. and immediate consequences. Too A new study has found that the little sleep causes mental fog, “They also found that the cleanup system in the brain, respon- crankiness, and increased risks of harmful beta-amyloid protein sible for flushing out toxic waste migraine and seizure. Rats de- clears out of the brain twice products that cells produce with prived of all sleep die within as fast in a sleeping rodent as daily use, goes into overdrive in weeks. in an up-and-about one. The mice that are asleep. The cells even study was published in the shrink in size to make for easier Sleep does play a key role in journal Science on Thursday. cleaning of the spaces around them. memory formation — mentally go- Scientists say this nightly self- ing through the events of the day An MRI diagnostic test for clean by the brain provides a com- and stamping certain memories glymphatic clearance is in the pelling biological reason for the re- into the brain. But sleeping for works by Nedergaard and her storative power of sleep. eight hours or more just to consol- colleagues. She also believes idate memories seems excessive, that a drug could be developed “Sleep puts the brain in another Nedergaard said, especially for an to force a cleanup if neces- state where we clean out all the animal such as a mouse. sary, perhaps by mimicking the byproducts of activity during the sleep-wake cycle. daytime,” said study author and Last year, Nedergaard and her http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ health-science/brains-flush-toxic-waste- University of Rochester neurosur- colleagues discovered a network in-sleep-including-alzheimers-linked- geon Maiken Nedergaard. Those that drains waste from the brain, protein-study-of-mice- finds/2013/10/19/9af49e40-377a-11e3-

Rebus Brainteasers

A Rebus is a picture 1. ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ representation of 2. READ a name, work, or phrase. Each “rebus” puzzle box portrays a common word or phrase. Can you 123456789 guess what it is? 4. Answers are on 3. page 6. http:// worksheets.thete acherscorner.net/ make-your-own/ brain-teasers/ Baby Boomer Quiz a. Chicago White Sox 14. Who became the first American to orbit the earth? 1. What years of birth would qualify b. New York Yankees you as being a baby boomer? c. Cleveland Indians a. John Glenn a. Inclusive years 1948-1960 8. In 1960 Butterfield 8 won The Best b. Neil Armstrong b. Inclusive years 1946-1964 Actress Academy Award? Who was c. Gary Powers the actress? c. Inclusive years 1946-1966 15. In 1962 what baseball player from a. Debbie Reynolds the Dodgers broke Ty Cobb's single- 2. What president made the remark season stolen base record? "You won't have ______to kick b. Katherine Hepburn around anymore?" c. Elizabeth Taylor a. Pete Rose a. President Eisenhower 9. In what year did East Germany b. Maury Wills b. President Nixon erect the Berlin Wall? c. Nellie Fox c. President Truman a. 1961 16. What movie in 1962 did Gregory Peck win best actor Oscar? 3. In what city did the Reverend Dr. b. 1960 Martin Luther King make his famous c. 1962 a. To Kill a Mockingbird "I Have A Dream Speech?" 10. What film made from a Broadway b. How the West Was Won a. Memphis, TN hit won the best movie of the year c. The Longest Day b. Washington D.C. Academy Award in 1961? 17. Sandy Koufax leads which team c. Selma, AL a. El Cid over the New Yankees in the World Series in 1963? 4. On what TV Show did The Beatles b. Breakfast at Tiffany's appear to kick off their first U.S. tour c. West Side Story a. San Francisco Giants in 1964? 11. In 1961 Harper Lee wins the Pu- b. Milwaukee Braves a. The Ed Sullivan Show litzer Prize for the best fiction book. c. Los Angeles Dodgers b. Shindig Do you recall the name of that book 18. In what year was the first James that later became a movie? c. Hullabaloo Bond Movie released in the United a. The Making of a President States? 5. In July of 1966 The Lovin' Spoon- ful topped the charts with what song? b. Guns of Navarone a. 1964 a. Daydream c. To Kill a Mockingbird b. 1962 b. Summer in the City 12. This President stirred thousands c. 1963 of college students with his creation c. You Didn't Have to Be So Nice 19. What was the name of the first of the Peace Corps. James Bond movie? 6. In what year was the American U-2 a. President John F. Kennedy spy plane piloted by Francis Gary a. Dr. No Powers downed and captured in Rus- b. President Dwight D. Eisenhower b. Goldfinger sia? c. President Harry S. Truman c. Thunderball a. 1960 13. In what year did Federal Commu- 20. Before 1963 the nightly news tel- b. 1961 nications Chief Newton Minnow call ecasts on NBC and CBS were how commercial television a vast waste- long? c. 1962 land? a. 15 minutes 7. Bill Mazeroski hit a dramatic sev- a. 1960 enth-game home run and gives the b. 20 minutes b. 1961 Pittsburgh Pirates an unforgettable c. 30 minutes World Series triumph over what c. 1962 team? *Answers on pg 5 Continued from pg 2: Brain training helped older adults stay sharp for years: study

The $33.7 million study was paid for About 74% of those who received preparing a meal, and handling fi- by the National Institutes of Health reasoning training were still per- nances, compared to 49% of those and overseen by Jonathan King, a forming reasoning tasks a decade who did not have the training. But program director at the National later above the level they displayed standard tests conducted by the re- Institute on Aging. at the beginning of the trial, com- searchers, such as measuring the King said that although many adults pared to about 62% of those who did amount of time that participants worry they will develop Alzheimer’s not receive that training. took to read and understand pre- disease, the majority will not be Similarly, 71% of speed-trained par- scription labels, did not pick up that plagued by dementia. Most, though, ticipants were performing a decade benefit. will eventually be stymied by chang- King said it may be that researchers es in their ability to reason and pro- simply have not designed sufficiently cess information quickly, jeopardiz- sensitive tests to detect these differ- ing their independence, which is why ences. the government is focused on easing Denise Park, a brain researcher at that burden, King said. later at or above levels at the study’s the University of Texas at Dallas who “So the quest becomes, can we en- start, compared to just 48% of those was not involved with the study, said hance cognitive ability in older who did not get training. the research was well designed and adults that would allow them to live No such difference was observed in clearly demonstrated that older independently longer?” he said. memory skills between those who adults trained on a specific task can The study volunteers, with a median received specific memory training maintain that skill for a decade. age of 74, were divided into three and the untrained group. Park said the study, however, lacks groups, each receiving training in Scientists are not sure why the answers for why the training appears either reasoning tips, computer memory training did not seem to to work, and she said future research games designed to boost their speed help with memory a decade later, but may use brain scans to help answer at processing information, or hypothesized that changes in the such questions. memory strategies. A fourth group brain as we age may make the brain “We need to look under the hood, to received no training. less amenable to such interventions. see how the training immediately The training groups participated in Participants in all of the training changed their brains and how it 10 sessions, each lasting about 60 to groups said they had less trouble changed their brains over the long

70 minutes over five to six weeks, performing everyday tasks a decade term,” said Park. Source: http://

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1. C 5. B 9. A 13. B 17. C Answers to Baby Boomer Quiz 2. B 6. A 10. C 14. A 18. C 3. B 7. B 11. C 15. B 19. A 4. A 8. C 12. A 16. A 20. A Mary Lange, MSG Supervisor EOA Education for Older Adults E-mail: [email protected] Shelby White, MSG EOA Lead Faculty 1100 N. Grand Avenue E-mail: [email protected]

Walnut, CA 91789 Faculty Association Representatives: Building 36, Room 2 Representatives at Large: Patricia Cridland, Steve Williams, Shelly Rzonca and Robin Beizai Phone: 909-274-4192 EOA Representatives: Shelby White, Margaret Fax: 909-274-2429 Valarde and Ray Tucker

E-mail: [email protected] Faculty Senate: EOA Faculty Senator: Erica Ledezma EOA strives to be a leading EOA Advisory Group Adolph Bergler, Carol Jones, Ed Jones, educational resource for older adults Esther Villegas, Francis Martin, Gary Paterson, John Chin, Jules Martin, transitioning into life’s second half. June Wentworth, Lee Coleman, Nanette Peterson and Phyllis Friar

Semester Dates Winter Semester Begins January 6, 2014 No class on the following dates:

 Martin Luther King Day January 20, 2014

 Presidents Day February 14, 2014 Winter Semester Ends February 16, 2014 Spring Semester Begins February 24, 2014 No class on the following dates:

 Cesar Chavez Day March 31, 2014

Rebus Brainteasers Answers from pg 3 1) NOEL (NO –L) 2) Read between the lines 3) Count on us 4) Tip of the iceberg