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ORDER ONLINE: www.caplingersfreshcatch.com Indy BOOMER TABLE OF CONTENTS SENIOR TOPICS FEATURES SOURCE 10 COOKING 17 5 Ways to Give When in Season in Your Body a Boost Indiana Inside and Out 11 LEGAL 22 Resource Pages Estate Planning to help you find the Vocabulary services you need 18 John Stehr: 12 BOOMERS@WORK A Born Story-teller 24 Need HELP Paying for Assisted Living A Full-Court Press By Amanda Evans-Clark Career Care? 26 Retirement 13 HEALTH Enjoy the Beautiful Communities in Greater Indianapolis Autumn Outdoors listed by location and services offered 14 FITNESS Engage at 30 Beware of Ads 6 Back to Every Age Suggesting You’ve Our Roots By Audrey Coots Won a Prize 15 TRAVEL 5 Tips to 7 Am I Having a Stroke? 31 Making Your Take Pets Think FAST Home a Safe on Trips By Jon White Haven 8 Local Filmmaker 32 Preparing for Creates Documentary the Inevitable 16 RELATIONSHIPS about Holocaust How Can I Honor Survivor 33 Heritage Place Your Grief? By Rudy Schouten Offers Activities for Older Adults Cover photo courtesy Kyle Duell, WTHR The Season of Giving Coming in November 4 Indy BOOMER September/October 2018 September/October 2018 Indy BOOMER 5 – TUESDAYS AT 7:30 P.M. Sponsored by Copyright © September 2018 by Writers Graphic Design MPM Marketing, Inc. All rights Audrey Coots Blue Heron reserved. No part of this pub- Indy Amanda Evans-Clark Publications, LLC lication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or BOOMER Christy Heitger-Ewing transmitted in any form by any Todd Outcalt Subscription means, electronic, mechani- cal, photocopying, recording Publisher Julie Patterson Information or otherwise, without the prior Mary Pat McKee Rudy Schouten US mail – Send $12 to: written permission of MPM Mar- keting, Inc. Ed Wenck Indy BOOMER Opinions expressed by con- Editor Jon White 8918 Squire Court tributors and advertisers are Ann C. Smith Indianapolis, IN 46250 not necessarily those of Indy BOOMER magazine. Although Contributors care is taken to see that errors Advertising Sales Carol Dixon Contact Us do not occur, Indy BOOMER magazine disclaims all legal re- Steve Hadley Brenda Johnson [email protected] sponsibility for errors and omis- Herb Olshever Helena Lil 317-440-9376 sions or typographical errors. Carol Juergensen Sheets Use of articles, artwork, and photography is prohibited un- Marketing less arrangements have been MEET Lil Creative Digital Agency THE STAFF made with MPM Marketing, Inc. 4 Indy BOOMER September/October 2018 September/October 2018 Indy BOOMER 5 Back to Our Roots An old concept is sweeping the that local sourcing. nation, and it’s doing so under the Over the years, we’ve be- guise of a new trend. come disassociated with our The phrase “farm to table” is foods and the processes be- making its way into mainstream hind them. It’s no longer un- conversations, and the idea behind common to not know where Healthy, locally sourced this movement is probably very the food we’re eating came food and happy service go hand-in-hand at Café Patachou. Photo courtesy Patachou, Inc. familiar to area Hoosiers. from or how it was raised or Why? Because there are over 15 grown and processed. example of the farm-to-table million acres of farmland in Indi- The farm-to-table movement concept with its onsite restaurant ana. Chances are, you are either is seeking to end the ambiguity called The Loft, which has a rotat- a farmer yourself or you know a associated with food, promoting ing menu with ingredients that are farmer, and that means the no- knowledge of real food ingredients sourced locally. The ingredients tion of getting fresh food products and healthier options that are less usually from the Traders Point straight from a farm is not unfa- bogged down with the preserva- farm near Zionsville but sometimes miliar territory. tives and chemicals needed to store from other local establishments, Fast food started to become a and ship ingredients around the such as Silverthorn Farm located trend with the opening of establish- world. in Rossville and Full Circle Farm ments such as White Castle (1921) “More and more people are be- near Whitestown. The menu is and McDonald’s (1940), followed coming aware of our industrialized, made up of seasonal, locally grown shortly by Taco Bell, Burger King highly processed food system and goodness like tomatoes and sweet and other chains that catered to a having to confront the resulting corn in the summer and squashes busy family and work life. health and quality-of-life issues,” in the fall, and the meat is locally But before that, most families explained Gail Alden, director of and humanely processed year kept a small garden and traded marketing and events at Trad- round. abundances of one vegetable for ers Point Creamery. “Eating lo- And The Loft isn’t the only lo- another, relying on neighbors cal, more naturally raised food is cal farm-to-table eatery by any and friends for variety. We knew one solution that many people are means. Café Patachou has several that the food was locally sourced choosing.” locations in Carmel and in and because usually, we were part of Traders Point offers a prime around Indianapolis, and they, too, offer fresh ingredients from local farms, including Silverthorn and Full Hand Farm in Noblesville and many others. “It directly supports the lifecycle of a local food economy,” Maddy Barnas, marketing director for Patachou Inc., says of the farm-to- table movement, “From the plant or animal’s well-being and the farmer’s livelihood to your health.” In short, the farm-to-table trend takes us back to our roots, serves our local economy, supports health and promotes knowledge surround- ing food processes and distribution. The Loft at Traders Point Creamery offers food What’s the downside? n that is both delicious and nutritious … and local! Photo courtesy Traders Point Creamery The Loft is a farm-to-table restaurant By Audrey Coots housed in a 19th-century dairy barn on Traders Point Creamery has some- Freelance Writer the grounds of a working dairy farm. thing for the whole family. Photo Photo courtesy Traders Point Creamery courtesy Traders Point Creamery 6 Indy BOOMER September/October 2018 September/October 2018 Indy BOOMER 7 Am I Having a Stroke? Think FAST Think you’re too young After weeks of intense to have a stroke? Think therapy, by autumn of again. While two-thirds 2017 Matthews could of strokes affect people 65 grasp what had hap- years and over, strokes pened. By 2018 she Healthy, locally sourced food and happy service go hand-in-hand at occur at any age. resumed working full- Café Patachou. Photo courtesy Patachou, Inc. “We’re seeing more time, doing some of her patients who are stroke daily routines, watching survivors in the 40-65 age her diet, taking her medi- range,” said Angela Car- cine, and telling others bone, M.D., a Rehabilita- about her experience. tion Hospital of Indiana “I’m just now getting Stacia Matthews’ RHI care team (from left) Angela Carbone, physician specializing back to me,” she said. M.D.; Stacia Matthews; Physician Assistant Rachel Milstead in stroke rehabilitation. Photo courtesy Jason Jolliff “Suffering a stroke means Strokes are no longer life as you knew it may restricted to the elderly due to a strokes are ischemic. Hemorrhagic no longer exist. series of risk factors affecting any- strokes occur when a blood ves- one. These include: sel in the brain ruptures. Former “We’re seeing more patients who are • Genetics: According to the WRTV Channel 6 reporter Stacia stroke survivors in the 40-65 age American Stroke Association, if Matthews survived the latter in range.” — Angela Carbone, M.D.