May 2019 Pacific Living Centers, Inc Heritage Harold Heritage House of Woodburn 943 N. Cascade Dr. Woodburn, OR 97071 503-982-1506

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW!!!!!

May 12,2019 is Mother’s Day, and we would like to take this time to say THANK YOU to all the Mothers, Grandmothers, Godmothers, Aunts, and any other woman who has helped raised a child. While this is the hardest job anybody will ever endeavor to do, and also

is the greatest reward. Thank you for helping make this Celebrating May World a better place!! We will have a Mother’s Day luncheon on Friday May 10, at noon. If you would like to th Physical Fitness & Sports come, please R.S.V.P by May 6 . Month Perhaps Rudyard Kipling said it perfectly, ‘God could not be everywhere, therefore he Older Americans Month created Mother’s’.

Meditation Month Please remember when you come to visit your love one to ask for any of their mail that may have been delivered here. Be Kind to Animals Week May 5–11 For those of you who would like to attend a support group meeting for caregivers and/or family members of those with Alzheimer’s, Teacher Day

May 7 Alzheimer’s support group meeting For more information about the caregiver support Mother’s Day groups listed below, May 12 please call 800-272-3900

Nylon Stockings Day Alzheimer's Association Support Group: May 15 Salem First Monday of the month from 6 to 7:30 p.m. or the Third Friday of the month from 10 Memorial Day: U.S. to 11:30 a.m. May 27 Kaiser Permanente, North Lancaster Medical Office Paper Clip Day 2400 Lancaster Drive NE May 29 Conference Room B Salem, OR 97305

May 2019

What is Huntington's Disease? In August 2008 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved tetrabenazine to Huntington's disease (HD) results from genetically treat Huntington’s chorea (the involuntary programmed degeneration of brain cells, called writhing movements), making it the first neurons, in certain areas of the brain. This degeneration causes uncontrolled movements, loss of intellectual faculties, and emotional What is the prognosis? disturbance. HD is a familial disease, passed from At this time, there is no way to stop or parent to child through a mutation in the normal reverse the course of HD. Now that the HD gene. Each child of an HD parent has a 50-50 gene has been located, investigators are chance of inheriting the HD gene. If a child does continuing to study the HD gene with an eye not inherit the HD gene, he or she will not develop the disease and cannot pass it to subsequent toward understanding how it causes disease generations. A person who inherits the HD gene in the human body. will sooner or later develop the disease. Whether one child inherits the gene has no bearing on whether others will or will not inherit the gene. What research is being done? Some early symptoms of HD are mood swings, Scientific investigations using electronic depression, irritability or trouble driving, learning new things, remembering a fact, or making a and other technologies enable scientists to decision. As the disease progresses, see what the defective gene does to various concentration on intellectual tasks becomes structures in the brain and how it affects the increasingly difficult and the patient may have body's chemistry and metabolism. difficulty feeding himself or herself and Laboratory animals are being bred in the swallowing. The rate of disease progression and hope of duplicating the clinical features of the age of onset vary from person to person. A genetic test, coupled with a complete medical HD so that researchers can learn more about history and neurological and laboratory tests, the symptoms and progression of HD. helps physicians diagnose HD. Presymptomic Investigators are implanting fetal tissue in testing is available for individuals who are at risk rodents and nonhuman primates with the for carrying the HD gene. In 1 to 3 percent of hope of understanding, restoring, or individuals with HD, no family history of HD can replacing functions typically lost by be found neuronal degeneration in individuals with Is there any treatment? HD. Related areas of investigation include Physicians prescribe drug approved for use in the excitotoxicity (over-stimulation of cells by United States to treat the disease. Most drugs used to natural chemicals found in the brain), treat the symptoms of HD have side effects such as defective energy metabolism (a defect in the fatigue, restlessness, or hyperexcitability. It is mitochondria), oxidative stress (normal extremely important for people with HD to maintain metabolic activity in the brain that produces physical fitness as much as possible, as individuals toxic compounds called free radicals), tropic who exercise and keep active tend to do better than those who do nota number of factors (natural chemical substances found medications to help control emotional and movement in the human body that may protect against problems associated with HD. cell death).

May 2019

A Scent Is Born

On May 5, 1921, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel Heritage House Staff introduced the first modern perfume to the world—her famous Chanel No. 5. It was no ADMINISTRATOR mistake that she debuted her fragrance on the Shannon Souza fifth day of the fifth month, for the number five had long held special significance to Coco Chanel. DAY SHIFT; Lucy N. When Chanel was just 12 years Flor D. old, her mother died of tuberculosis Mayra B. and her father sent her to live in an orphanage under the care of the SWING SHIFT; convent of Aubazine. As Chanel Randi J. walked the pathways of the Rosa C. convent gardens, she discovered Nadine B. that the stones were laid in groups of five. She constantly passed over these stones NOC SHIFT; while making her way to prayers, and they made a Patty C. lasting impression. While her childhood was stark Eddie S. and frugal, it was amongst the nuns that Chanel Monica M. learned to sew, a skill that blossomed into a fabulous career in fashion design. But always, ON CALL; the number five stayed with her. Iris Z Alondra C. Fashion houses were not interested in the perfume business, yet Coco Chanel was not interested in following traditions. In 1920, she approached the For the Love of Pugs French-Russian perfumier Ernst Beaux and asked him to “create a scent that would make its wearer Pug lovers of every stripe smell like a woman, and not a rose.” At the time, will flock to Milwaukee on most perfumes were simple, often mimicking the the weekend of May 18–19 scent of one flower. Or else they were gaudy and for the annual Pugfest. The overpowering with musks and jasmine. Chanel focus of the festivities revolves wanted something new. around three adorable costume contests, where pug owners parade their dogs Beaux concocted several scents and presented for all to see. The costume categories are: bottles labeled 1–5 and 20–24. Chanel, of course, “Hand-Crafted,” “Ready-Made,” and “Strollers selected the fifth vial and named it, simply and and Floats.” When visitors aren’t ooh-ing accurately, Chanel No. 5. On the fifth day of the and aah-ing over the cute dogs, they will be fifth month of the next year, Chanel not only watching pug races and allowing Father John presented her latest fashion collection but also Allen to perform the annual Blessing of the Pugs. her new fragrance, a delicate mixture of jasmine, Why do people love these tiny and, some might ylang-ylang, may rose, and sandalwood. It also say, ugly dogs? They were originally bred as contained aldehydes, which are chemicals that companion animals for Chinese royalty. When create longevity in the scent so that women would the dogs were brought back to Europe in the not need to constantly reapply the perfume. Chanel 16th century, European royalty adopted the No. 5 was an instant hit, and women have worn it practice. Today, anyone can feel like a king ever since. or queen with their own pug pup.

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