Complimentary Copy Metro Your companion for living well in the northwest April 2021 BE WELL Anti- inflammatory Diet Good, and Good for You Foot Care Doctor or Black-owned Salon? Barbershop a Community Legacy Visit us northwest50plus.com | Find us on social media @northwest50plus Resident managers on site 24/7 See for yourself! Call to arrange a tour. Wellness begins with contentment Contentment begins at Home 503-646-0635 12900 SW 9th St, Beaverton www.beavertonLodge.com BE WELL 8 What’s an Anti-inflammatory Diet? Not complicated, it’s good, and good for you. 12 21 Foot Care - Doctor or Salon? Behind the Words of Give your feet the care they deserve. Neil Diamond 19 14 For the ♥ of Pets Your Poor Feet: Give them a break! Love is in the details. We love our pets, but it’s easy to miss 10 important ways to show it. Aging and your EYE Lifelong vision care is important, especially as we age. 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A Shattered Life Rebuilt Starting with Just One Thumb by Candy Puterbaugh Jim has worked with people with differing abilities and challenges, some training for triathlons or marathons. “What I do best is work an ongoing program with seniors and people who have suffered a stroke, head or spinal cord injury, hip or knee replacement, multiple sclerosis, dementia or Alzheimer’s,” he says over the phone, all the while riding his stationary bike. “I feel, with these people, I can make a difference, make their lives a little bit better.” After the accident, Jim had spent three months in a hospital bed unable to move at all. “I heard the doctors saying I’d probably be in bed forever,” he says. “I believed I would die but couldn’t believe I was a quadriplegic. So, I concentrated on my right thumb and moved it for the first time in three months. I worked on that thumb over and over, then my fingers. The doctors Jim with client Jane Fuller were amazed at my progress and called me ‘wonder boy’!” Almost fifty years ago, then 21-year-old Jim Knapp After five months, Jim moved crashed through the passenger-side windshield of to his sister’s home and within his friend’s car. It rendered him quadriplegic and two months was standing. He Ashattered his life...for a while. Today, as a personal exercised daily for hours at a fitness trainer, he carries his rare perspective and a health spa. In 14 months, he was smile to clients’ homes to exercise their bodies, walking. Later, the spa offered minds and spirits. him a job. 6 NORTHWEST 50 PLUS | METRO April 2021 I remember being trapped in a body that couldn’t move and so try to help people in similar situations. Eight years after the accident, working in another health club, Jim entered their fitness contest for over 1,400 employees nationwide . and won, doing 420 pushups. After a newspaper published his feat, he started getting daily phone calls, such as, “My son broke his back! Can His clients become like family. “I see most of you come?” them more than their family does,” he says. “I take That publicity changed his career path, and his clients on picnics, to concerts and dinner, fishing newfound fitness led him to compete in triathlons, on my boat. even to Alaska! I remember being entering 50 in five years. Jim went from building trapped in a body that couldn’t move and so try to houses briefly and never working out before the help people in similar situations.” accident to working out daily and becoming a personal fitness trainer. AGING IN PLACE Before Covid, Jim worked five 10-hour days a week. After nine months off during the shutdown Tips for Making Your Home he got a client call in December and things — like Safe & Accessible his thumb way back when — started moving. Modular ramps eliminate the need Today he’s working seven hours a week with to navigate steps, which can make maintaining balance difficult. clients at a private home and an assisted-care community. A 94-year-old was just referred to Threshold ramps for doorways form a seamless surface to transition from one him by a doctor. Referrals also come from word room to another to eliminate tripping. of mouth and physical therapists with whom he’s Grab bars in high-risk areas like worked. He sees clients ages 14 to 99, some for 20 bathrooms and bedrooms gives anyone years. He works in kitchens, living rooms, assisted- with mobility issues additional support and prevents slip and fall injuries. care hallways and swimming pools, exercising Install grab bars near the toilet, and in along with his clients in one-hour sessions two or the shower/bathtub since these three times a week.