NOVEMBER 2017 Volume 4 Issue 11 Your Life, Your Way, Your Time over 50 Your Life, Your Way, Your Time over 50 Time Your Way, Life, Your Your Active for Life for Active Modern A PUBLICATION FOR Active MASON COUNTY Social BOOMER and SENIOR Opportunity R E S I D E N T S Network MASON COUNTY • MICHIGAN Mason County Senior Centers How to start your on-line search for Medicare Part D are funded by the generosity of the following organizations: Go to: www.medicare.gov From row of blue blocks at top of page click: Drug Coverage (Part D) MASON COUNTY Scroll down to: Find health & drug plans (new page Medicare Plan Finder SENIOR MILLAGE Go to General Search and enter your ZIP Code: Click on: Find Plans Step 1 of 4: Enter Information: For each question in the green box, mark the appropriate circle that fits your current coverage Further support is provided through Click on: Continue to Plan Results Plan Results private donations and fundraisers. Thank You! Step 2 of 4: Enter Your Drugs Type the name of your drug and Click on: Find my drug Gratitude Answer the questions pertaining to this drug. An attitude of gratitude When completed click on: Add drug and dosage drug and dosage can make your life more mean- ingful, peaceful and rewarding. Continue with this step until all your drugs are entered. Looking at life through After all your drugs are enter; Click on: My Drug List is Complete Drug List the lens of thankfulness helps us Step 3 of 4: Select Your Pharmacies to live the best life possible. Read You should choose two for this step, it will give you a good comparison. the article on the next page. Consider starting with a journal. Click on: Continue to Plan Results to Plan Results Active for Life contribu- Step 4 of 4: Refine Your Plan Results tors and advertisers extend warm Thanksgiving blessings from our In the green box choose one of the three options homes to yours. May your Then click on: Continue to Plan Results o Plan Results Thanksgiving celebrations be Your Plan Results will now be visible. In the green box you will see filled with laughter, happiness your Plan choices. Scroll down to: Prescription Drug Plans and oodles of Gratitude! Click on the red boxes of the Prescription Drug Plans you would Marcia Visscher like to compare (you may compare up to three plans at one time). Editor Once you have clicked on the plans to compare, Click on: 231-757-4705 Compare Plans You are now looking at: Your Plan Comparison. Inside this issue This will show you the estimated cost of your premiums and drug cost. Senior Lunch Menu 4 If you choose one plan over the others you have looked at and are MiChoice for Independence 5 ready to Enroll, you may go ahead and click on the Name of the Phar- Activities for Parkinson’s 6 macy and this will take you to the Enrollment page. 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Brain Games 23 PAGE 2 ACTIVE FOR LIFE NOVEMBER 2017 MASON COUNTY • MICHIGAN How to Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude By Jessica Cassity (from happify.com) Thinking about all you What Grateful People Have in Common have to appreciate can Of course, the actual goal isn't to have a note- boost your happiness and book full of your declarations of gratitude, but rather your overall sense of well- to make gratitude a default feeling. According to re- being, according to psy- searchers at E. Washington Univ., there are four pri- chologists. (It helps explain mary characteristics of grateful people, and these are why Thanksgiving scores the ones that thank-you notes and a gratitude journal so high among American can help tap, strengthen, and invigorate. People who holidays. It's topped only by experience the most gratitude (and therefore the posi- Christmas, according to tive effects) tend to: one recent poll.) • Feel a sense of abundance in their lives • Appreciate the contributions of others to their Gratitude Effects Last Longer Than You Think well-being Feeling and expressing gratitude can make • Recognize and enjoy life's small pleasures you happy in the moment—just think back to the joy • Acknowledge the importance of experiencing you felt the last time a friend helped you out or your and expressing gratitude partner cooked a gourmet dinner—and a growing mound of evidence shows that giving thanks can Train Your Brain for Gratitude also have a lasting effect on your mood. One study Whether or not these attitudes come to you from the University of Pennsylvania found that peo- naturally, paying attention to life's positives can train ple who wrote and delivered a heartfelt thank- you to see more and more of them, which will help you letter actually felt happier for a full month after, you learn to be more grateful. You might feel blessed and the same researchers discovered that writing that good weather allowed you to get out for an after- down three positive events each day for a week noon run, that a stranger lent a helping hand, that you kept happiness levels high for up to six months. made it to the bus on time, or that your kids offered to Tools for Thankfulness do the dishes. Acknowledging these things—on So how can you cultivate a growing sense of paper, with words, , or even in your thoughts—will gratitude—and its positive side-benefits—on your help you cultivate an attitude of gratitude—and with it, own? It turns out that the tools used by psycholo- a boost in happiness that will last year-round. gists in research studies—namely a gratitude Jessica Cassity writes about health, fitness, and happiness journal and some thank-you notes—are some of the for publications including Self, Shape, Health, Women's best ones for boosting gratitude both in and out of Health, and Family Circle magazines. Her first book, the lab. By writing down positive things that happen Better Each Day: 365 Expert Tips for a Healthier, Happier to you and actively You was published in 2011. a c k n o w l e d g i n g those who have helped you, you be- come better at rec- ognizing the good in your life, which naturally helps you feel more grateful and thankful more often. SERVING THE BOOMERS AND SENIORS OF MASON COUNTY PAGE 3 MASON COUNTY SENIOR MEALS 300 BROADWAY AVE. • SCOTTVILLE, MI 49454 • 231.757.5721 Kitchen – 757-4831 PLEASE CALL MEAL SITES Meal Sites FOR LUNCH RESERVATION Scottville 757-4705 BY 9:00 AM. 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