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A special section of The Issaquah Press, Sammamish Review, SnoValley Star and Newcastle News

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By Peter Clark

Some treat getting older as more reason to throw caution to the wind.

For many thrill-seeking types 50 and older, motorcy-cles can represent the freedom that retirement brings. After experiencing empty nests and getting golden watches, people find that motorcycles have a way to deliver a hobby, a way to find friendship and, of

course, thrills.Issaquah is a good place to

foster such a hobby — the city is home to its own motorcycle gang. Well, more of a motor-cycle not-for-profit organiza-tion, but still a gang of enthu-siasts that welcomes riders to join in touring the region. The Thundering Angels is a regis-tered 501(c)(3) organization that steers its wheels toward community involvement.

“Bringing together biker

spirit and values” and “helping those in need by organizing events and activities” are listed among its founding principles. And no one embodies this spirit more than the club’s founder and president, Issaquah’s own Music Man, David Harris.

As the face behind the annual Concerts on the Green, Make Music Day and other musical events, Harris doesn’t shy away from the rock n’ roll lifestyle. He provides the rock

to Issaquah and his motorcycle provides the roll.

“I started riding motorcycles in England in the late 1950s,” Harris, 75, said.

He rode smaller scooters and bikes all through his early years and loved it, but he said life got in the way.

“Other things take pri-orities,” he said. “Many other cyclists drop out for a couple

Empty nests, open roads

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David Harris, Thundering Angels president and founder, leads the group on a recent ride through the region.

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of years.”He had to drop out of

the scene for a little bit, but simple economics brought him back.

“It was the gas crunch in this county, that’s when I got back into it,” he said.

‘Like joining a family’Though Harris has a long

history with many motorcy-cle makes, these days, he only rides a Harley-Davidson.

“I think it’s the lifestyle,” he said. “Riding a Harley is like joining a family.”

He owns a Harley-Davidson Rocker, which he describes as a “semi-chopper.” He said he “tricked it out a bit” and it looks pretty good

to him.While normal obligations

like families and jobs kept his bike love at bay, he said aging allowed him to explore his passion and find others who shared the same.

David Scandiffio is one of

those who shares the mania for motorcycles. The 58-year-old, who serves as the vice president for the Thundering Angels, agrees that more years only gives him greater freedom for diving into a pastime he loves.

“I started pretty young,”

Scandiffio said. “When I was 12, I was on a 50cc, but I kind of grew up quick.”

He took to motorcycles as a way to explore not only the region, but also the continent.

“As I got older, I started going on road trips and tour-ing,” he said. “I enjoy going out and seeing what’s there.”

He has been back and forth across America five times and has also traveled through Canada. He has attended Rolling Thunder, the annual veteran motorcycle pilgrimage to Washington D.C., twice.

“It’s incredible,” he said.Scandiffio used to be some-

thing of a collector of motor-cycles, taking up a lot of garage space with a lot of bikes.

“When my wife met me, I had 17,” he said. “Now, I’m down to one. One day, you look and you say, ‘You know, you have to keep filling up the

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David Scandiffio, of Issaquah, sits his on blue Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic touring bike as he was about to embark on a cross-country round trip in the annual Run For The Wall.

With their motto, “Make this a better world,” the Thundering Angels put their money where their motorcycles are.

The nonprofit social organization supports local and regional causes including yearly contri-butions to the Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank and Life Enrichment Options.

Through its mission, the club aims to raise aware-ness and involvement, as well as maintain a good image for the motorcycle community.

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Like Harris, Scandiffio rides a Harley-Davidson these days, and both have developed an appre-ciation for riding with more mature members.

“As you get older, you want to join others your own age,” Harris said, glad to have the Thundering Angels as a foundation for his social life. “There’s always a rally or a gathering to attend.”

That also goes for looking for a more laid-back riding style.

“Once you hit a cer-tain age, going over 100 miles per hour just isn’t

as fun as it once was,” Scandiffio said.

Still, he loves the area, saying it allows for some exceptional views, even if he takes his time to get to them. The Thundering Angels, open to everyone, holds weekly rides and regular events to take advantage of the local scenery.

“Mostly, we do a lot of riding around the Snoqualmie Valley and around Black Diamond,” Scandiffio said. “We go out for a jaunt, talk about things and see what’s going on. There are a lot of roads that are really nice to go along.”

He said he finds a great deal of relaxation in both riding and

working on motor-cycles.

“I understand them,” Scandiffio said. “Motorcycle engines are a lot smaller than car engines. You can just grab that damn thing and stick it on the bench.”

Harris doesn’t have the cross-country aspira-tions held by Scandiffio. He is content to merely tool around the com-munity with friendly faces in tow.

“I don’t do any long rides anymore,” Harris said, adding the lon-gest for him will maybe be 100-mile trips on a weekend. “I’m not really interested in long rides. I’m more into cruising around and that sort of thing.”

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Janene Davis-Webley’s family faced a tough decision when her 92-year-old grand-mother’s health rapidly declined.

Hospice care loomed as a real possibility, Davis-Webley said, as grandmother Margaret Brandt struggled to rec-ognize family members and seemed under a constant fog.

All that changed after a 90-minute visit to the Overlake Senior Health Clinic, where Dr. Priyanka Duggal and clinical pharma-cist Trang Le reduced Brandt’s medication from a staggering 20 to five.

“After all of the meds were out of her system, she was much brighter,” Davis-Webley said on behalf of her grand-mother, whose stroke-related dementia pre-vents her from speaking clearly for herself. “She could recognize fam-ily members again and she’s happy to see us when we visit.”

Brandt, an Issaquah resident, was tak-ing several prescrip-tion medications that caused harmful side effects such as drowsi-ness, blurred vision or increased risk of falls. Some of the medicines also increased the risk of mental decline.

The problem of tak-ing too many medica-tions or supplements at the same time is known as polypharmacy, or “many drugs,” and it’s

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an all too common issue, especially among older adults, Duggal said.

“We see it almost every day, multiple times a day,” she said.

Too many medicinesOvermedication can

cause serious health and safety concerns, Duggal said. All medications have side effects, many of which increase the risk of dizziness, drowsi-ness and falls.

Older patients’ bod-ies also cannot clear the same amount of medi-cation they could when they were younger, so doctors must dose the appropriate amount based on a person’s kid-ney function, Duggal

added.“A

lot of medi-cines affect the central nervous system or the brain, so we see a lot of seniors on medications that interact and cause falls, which can lead to hip fractures and nurs-ing home placements,” she said.

What makes poly-pharmacy extra con-cerning is that it can get out of hand quickly and easily, Le said.

It happens when patients see multiple healthcare providers

without a complete medication list, leading to overprescribing, or it can occur if a patient uses different pharma-cies.

Patients can fall victim to what Duggal called a “prescribing cascade,” as doctors prescribe medications to mask the side effect of other medications.

Seniors are more susceptible to polyphar-macy since they gener-ally do have multiple chronic medical condi-tions that need treating, Le said.

“That requires mul-tiple drug therapies,” Le said. “Therefore, they’re on more medications

q Have a continual discussion with your healthcare provider about the medications, both prescription and nonprescription, you are taking.

q Keep an updated list of all medi-cations you take, including any vita-mins or herbal supplements. Include dosage on the list, and bring it along anytime you visit a healthcare profes-sional.

q Ask if any of your medications are known to cause side effects. If you think you may be having a bad reac-tion to a drug, tell your healthcare professional. The American Geriatrics Society publishes a list of medications known to have harmful side effects, particularly in older patients. Learn more at www.healthinaging.org.

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understand what each one does to improve your health.

q Do not stop taking prescribed medications simply because you think they are not working or may cause side effects. Instead, talk to your healthcare professional about your concerns first. You should never stop taking medications without first checking with your doctor.

Source: Overlake Senior Health Clinic

What patients can do to avoid polypharmacy

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and then, because of the more medications they’re on, they’re at a higher risk of adverse drug reactions.”

The issue also arises as patients transition from one care setting to another, such as from the hospital to a nursing home, Le said.

“Everywhere a patient is transitioned, prescribers will prescribe medications,” Le said, “so multiple prescribers are involved, and medi-cations are continually added, when maybe some medications are supposed to be discon-tinued.”

There is no definitive number of medications that a patient should or should not have, Duggal said. It’s different for everyone, and some people just might need more medications than

others, and that’s OK, she added.

What it ultimately comes down to is a patient’s need for those medicines. Duggal and her colleagues at the Overlake Senior Health Clinic use the American Geriatric Society’s Beers Criteria as a guide.

The criteria identifies medications that are potentially inappropri-ate or should be used with caution among older adults. It helps healthcare providers improve medication safety for their patients.

Preventing polypharmacy

As easy as it is to see the medications pile up, it’s just as easy to pre-vent polypharmacy with a few diligent steps, Duggal said.

Patients should keep an updated list of all medications they take, and bring it to every health specialist they see, she said. That com-

prehensive list should also include any vita-mins or herbal supple-ments, as well as the dose amounts.

A lot of times, patients don’t consider vitamins or herbal sup-plements as medication, so they omit them from the list, Le said.

“Just keep in mind that all herbal supple-ments have their own side-effects profile,” she said. “They can cause side effects, they can interfere with other prescription drugs, they

can interfere with other herbal supplements, so that’s why it’s impor-tant for the doctors to know about all the medications.”

Patients can also bring their medicine bottles to every doctor visit. That allows the healthcare provider to make sure the patients are taking the medica-tion regularly.

“When we look at the bottles we can also look at compliance,” Duggal said. “Some people have memory issues, and that can lead to us adding more and more medication when they’re not taking the ones we prescribed in the first place.”

Duggal suggests patients stick to the same pharmacy, so that the pharmacist has a complete list of medica-tions on file, and can keep an eye out for any harmful interactions between medicines.

Knowing what the

medications are, and what exactly they are for, is also important, Duggal said.

“Sometimes patients stop taking essential medicines because they don’t know what they’re for,” she said.

Finally, if you think a particular medication is causing side effects or is not working, do not stop taking it. Patients should communicate with healthcare provid-ers first.

Overlake Senior Health Clinic

Knowing how com-mon polypharmacy is, every first-time patient at the Overlake Senior Health Clinic receives a 30-minute medi-cation-management consultation with a pharmacist, along with a 60-minute visit with a physician.

The Bellevue clinic specializes in seniors, serving only those 65 and older. Each patient

is cared for by a team consisting of a physi-cian, licensed phar-macist and a group of nurses with vast experi-ence in taking care of the elderly.

“That’s why it’s unique, because we work as a team to make sure that all the medi-cations are reviewed in order to prevent adverse drug reactions,” Le said.

Davis-Webley, who is in the healthcare field herself, said the staff was understanding and welcoming when she brought her grandmoth-er to the clinic.

“They heard all of my concerns, and we worked together to make a plan for titrat-ing her medicines down,” Davis-Webley said. “They were very proactive. There aren’t a lot of doctors who specialize or understand that maybe less is more at this point in their patient’s life.”

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Thanks to technology and scientific advances, you can actually affect how you age.

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Dedomenico, 76, could easily pass for 50 or younger. A full head of hair, glowing skin and quick, exuberant energy all act as evi-dence for the success of the center’s treat-ments.

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It does this by staying on top of current trends in the anti-aging field.

“We’re pretty cut-ting edge,” Dedomenico said. “We don’t miss much.”

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“We want to help people get healthy from the inside out,” Upton said.

Younger people seem to want the same thing.

“It’s getting earlier all the time,” Dedomenico said about the age of people coming into the Anti-Aging Center. “The best thing you can do is to not let your testoster-one drop.”

At the end of the day, both doctors said the key to more, healthier years lies in day-to-day life.

“What is fundamen-tal is their lifestyle,”

Upton said, listing diet, weight and health as the primary forces of anti-aging. “And people don’t just want extra years, they want quality years.”

Dedomenico said behavior leads to men-tality.

“You eat the wrong foods and you start act-ing old,” he said. “Don’t act old.”

He said modern sci-ence allows people to better understand what may cause fatigue, poor appetite, decreased muscle mass, memory loss, lower sex drive and depression.

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“In order to prevent hearing loss and mini-mize its effects, people should stay in good health, and above all use hearing protection to prevent loud noise from entering their ears,” Borders said. “The daily tasks we perform, such as using the lawn mower or shop-vac, have the power to cause damage which is easily avoidable with the use of earplugs.”

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By Christina Corrales-Toy

Longtime Issaquah residents Rowan and Barbara Hinds retired from their day jobs almost two decades ago.

Rowan said good-bye to his job at Weyerhaeuser, where he worked for more than 20 years, in 1996, and Barbara soon followed, leaving her bookkeeping

position.Life generally slows

down after retirement, giving eternal worka-holics a well-deserved respite from the daily grind.

These days, the Hinds do have more time to hit the golf course, or rest on the sun-splashed deck of their Issaquah home, but try as they might, “slowing down” just isn’t a part of this

hands-on couple’s vocabulary.

The Hinds stay busy throughout the year, dedicating their time to serving others and vol-unteering with organiza-tions across the city.

“We’ve always had very, very busy lives,” Barbara said. “We’ve always done whatever we had to do, plus some volunteering, and it schedules you. If you become unscheduled, you do nothing. So, vol-unteering kind of keeps us on track. It keeps us going, and if you can do

more, you have a fuller, richer life.”

On Mondays, Barbara volunteers at the Issaquah Library, where she stocks shelves and pulls books to send to other locations.

A longtime library user, Barbara said staff members were initially confused when she told them she wanted to volunteer several years ago.

“They weren’t really used to having volun-teers,” she said. “But over the years that we’ve lived here, we’ve used it so much, and I just feel like I can give something back.”

Rowan and Barbara volunteer at the Issaquah Senior Center

Volunteering is a great way for adults to stay active after retire-ment, and there are several local organiza-tions that can use a helping hand. Here are just a few:

Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank 179 First Ave. S.E.

The Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank needs volunteers to sort, package, clean and give food and clothing to clients. Volunteers do not need training, just a few dedicated hours a week and a willing spirit. Volunteer hours vary; call 392-4123.

History museums 165 S.E. Andrews St.

Issaquah History Museums volunteers help discover, share and preserve the his-tory of Issaquah. Volunteers are needed to serve as docents, tour guides, adminis-trative assistants and more. View a full list of opportunities at issaquahhistory.org/about/volunteering, and email Lissa Kramer at [email protected] to get involved.

Salmon hatchery 125 W. Sunset Way

The Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery needs volun-teers to lead hatchery tours, staff the gift shop and educate the public about salmon at

local events. FISH offers volunteer training that includes a hatchery tour and a presenta-tion about the salmon lifecycle. Learn more at www.issaquahfish.org, or email [email protected] to get involved.

VOICE Mentor Program

The Issaquah Schools Foundation’s VOICE Mentor Program pairs struggling stu-dents with an adult mentor. Students and mentors meet for an hour a week. Learn more and sign up to become a mentor www.voicementorpro-gram.org.

Eastside Baby Corner 1510 N.W. Maple St.

Eastside Baby Corner helps kids thrive by providing basic necessities for children. The organization needs volunteers to help sort and organize donated items. Register to vol-unteer at www.baby-corner.org/volunteer-time.

The city of IssaquahThe city of Issaquah

could always use a few volunteers. Whether it’s lending a helping hand during the farm-ers market, or assist-ing with a community event, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved. Learn more at www.ci.issaquah.wa.us/volunteer.

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Rowan Hinds (left), former Issaquah mayor, and his wife Barbara, volunteers at the Issaquah Valley Senior Center, help with the dishwashing duties.

Lending a handVolunteerism helps keep adults active


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on Tuesdays. They teach mahjong, a tile game originated in China, and wash dishes after lunch.

The kitchen duty brings back fond memo-ries for the couple, who married 52 years ago, Rowan said. They first met at Oregon State University, while the two worked in a dormi-tory cafeteria.

“We’re still washing dishes,” Barbara said

with a smile.On Wednesdays,

Rowan attends Kiwanis Club of Issaquah meet-ings. He is an active member of the volun-teer organization.

Thursdays represent the couple’s most ardu-ous of days, Barbara said. It’s when they vol-unteer at the Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank. They sort through dona-tions, package food and serve clients.

“That is heavy, physi-cal labor,” she said. “We are exhausted when we get home from the food bank.”

Fridays are usually the Hinds’ day off, but they still keep busy doing yard work or making a trip to the grocery store.

They get most week-ends off, too, though they usually dedicate at least one Saturday a month to the Issaquah

History Museums, where they serve as volunteer docents.

It all might seem like a lot of work, but it’s nothing to the Hinds, whose track record of volunteering and public service are well-known in the area.

Barbara was a dedi-cated classroom volun-teer for 21 years, while her children attended schools in the Issaquah School District. Rowan

served on the Issaquah City Council, starting in 1979, until he was elected mayor in 1989. He then served as the city’s mayor until 1997.

“There is life after retirement, and as we get older, volunteer-ing keeps you younger and it keeps you more active,” Rowan said. “But really, everything that we do, it’s really for the people of this great

community.”The Hinds immedi-

ately fell in love with Issaquah when they relocated here in 1971, and now see a sort of duty to give back to the community.

“When he was mayor, they came up with an Issaquah slo-gan, and I think that it’s probably still true,” Barbara said. “‘It’s a spe-cial place where people care.’”

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