Palouse Seniors Spring 2012

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2 | Friday, February 24, 2012 | MOSCOWPULLMAN DAILY NEWS Palouse Seniors

By Vera WhiteDaily News staff writer

Mary and Bob Langdon are part of a constant migration of seniors who are compelled, usually by health problems, to leave their familiar sur-roundings to live near their adult children. In their case, it was because 74-year-old Bob was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s six years ago.

“The progression had been slow but it is advancing now so we decided to move to Pullman to be close to my daughter,” said Mary, 72.

The Langdons moved to Pullman last August from Hansville, Wash., on the Kitsap Peninsula. Daughter Meghan Wiley from Mary’s first mar-riage has lived in Pullman since 1994 and is general manager of the Holiday Inn Express. Tom Redinger, Meghan’s “long time significant other,” runs a heating and plumbing company in Moscow.

Meghan is a graduate of the Hotel and Restaurant Program at Washington State University.

The Langdons, both divorced, met on his sailboat through mutual friends. They were married in 2000.

“We were both retired — me from teaching elementary school in Puyallup and Bob as a

sales engineer living in Des Moines outside Seattle,” Mary explained.

As Bob’s Alzheimer’s started to accelerate, Mary made the decision to move to Pullman.

“By then Bob couldn’t drive and I was con-cerned that if something happened to me he needed to have someone there to take care of him,” she said. “We wanted to be in a small town and have the advantages of the univer-sity.”

Mary has two other daughters — Susan who lives in Lake Stevens, Wash., and Elizabeth of Walnut Creek, Calif. There are six grandchil-dren. Bob has one son by his first marriage.

“All three of my daughters went to school at WSU, so we are very familiar with it,” Mary said. “We’re finding Pullman everything we’d hoped it would be and more.”

The Langdons bought a home on Capri Court and are settling in nicely.

“This has pretty much become home for Bob as I don’t know how much he remembers about our other home,” she said.

Mary continues to enjoy good health and at this point is still able to manage.

“My daughter is there for me if I need her, and she has been wonderful,” Mary boasted. “If I’m gone more than a couple of hours I take Bob with me. We are pretty much together 24/7.”

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A long road homeGeoff Crimmins/Daily News

Mary and Bob Langdon recently moved to Pullman from Hansville, Wash., to be closer to their daughter Megan Wiley.

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This year, Krista Kramer, independent living coordinator for Disability Action Center-Northwest in Moscow, will write. She is also a Medicaid infrastructure grant coordina-tor.

DAC-NW, 505 N. Main St., also has offices in Coeur d’Alene and Lewiston at 307 19th St., Suite A1. More than nine people work in the Moscow office, plus part-time people, one working from home and volunteers.

“We do payroll for about 85 personal assistants,” Kramer said.

Kramer describes DAC-NW as a “non-profit, non-residen-tial, cross-disability, consumer-controlled organization that provides an array of indepen-dent living services to encour-age full participation in all aspects of community life.”

Kramer lives in Moscow and has worked for DAC-NW since 1993. She was born with a visu-al impairment that resulted in spending her early years with just enough vision not to run into the big stuff.

She also served an intern-ship at the Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind where the sign language immersion experience opened new doors.

“My particular specialty is assistive technology for people with hearing impairments

— amplified phones, assistive listening systems, and video communication options for example,” she explained.

Kramer has a master’s in rehabilitation counseling: deaf-ness and is a certified assisted technology practitioner.

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In the U.S., individu-als have a 45 percent chance of having a dis-ability between the ages of 65 and 75, a 65 per-cent chance during the next decade, and living beyond 85 increases chances of having a dis-ability to 85 percent.

Creating accessible environments at home can dramatically reduce the effect of a disability on living life to the fullest.

Homes that have an acces-sible entrance and bathroom, and sleeping space on the main floor, mean you can recuperate at home rather than in a nurs-ing home.

It means the in-laws can still come to Thanksgiving dinner when they can’t climb stairs anymore.

Accessible transportation means not being isolated at

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Accessible sidewalks and businesses mean still being able to meet friends for coffee or get to the doctor’s office.

Captioning and relay services mean being able to under-stand the TV and phone calls if you can’t hear them anymore.

Access to the right piece of assistive technology can mean autonomy and safety.

And support from someone who has had similar experi-ences and has already figured out a set of coping strategies can make the adjustment to a new disability much easier.

Disability Action Center-Northwest’s mission is to foster attitudes, policies, and environments of equality and freedom for people with dis-abilities of all ages. DAC-NW works throughout Regions I & II in Idaho and Whitman and Asotin Counties.

We provide information and referral related to disability issues and services, individual and systems advocacy, peer counseling, independent living skills training, assistive tech-nology services, and personal assistance services for people wanting to directly hire and manage personal assistants.

DAC-NW is also hosting a workshop series on starting micro businesses for people with disabilities.

DAC-NW advocates for access to medical coverage for people with disabilities, remov-ing disincentives for returning to work, deinstitutionalization, and creating accessible hous-ing, transportation and com-munities.

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with me. We are pretty much together 24/7.”

Both the Langdons are interested in WSU sports and always have season tickets for basketball games. They trav-eled extensively after they were married hitting such places as Antarctica, South America. Australia and Russia.

Although packing up and moving was a difficult venture,

arriving in Pullman was “the frosting on the cake.”

“Everyone has been so friendly and helpful here,” Mary said. “I would love to start doing some volunteer work.”

The Langdons have given up exotic travel for leisurely drives around the Palouse.

“At this point in time, our life is pretty quiet,” Mary said.

Vera White can be reached at (208) 746-0646, or by email to [email protected]

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Doris Hansen has a lot of irons in the fire, but the 77-year-old Deary woman found time to sign on as cook at the Deary Meal Site sponsored by the Spud Hill Seniors. She replaces Teri Gaylord who resigned in January.

“I agreed to stay on until the new cook comes in the first week in April,” Hansen said.

The new chef is Jill Whitcomb of Deary. She is on an extended trip to Mexico and was unavailable for com-ment.

Hansen has been a SHS volunteer for several years and that includes doing some cooking, a skill she learned from her mom.

“I guess you could say my ‘special-ties’ are just plain everyday cooking,” she said, quickly naming off such items as pork roast, homemade rolls and sugar cookies.

Hansen has lived in Deary most of her life. She and her late husband Bob have four children, 15 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. She is a semi-retired beautician who still works at her shop, the HiLite in downtown Deary.

In addition to serving on the Deary City Council for the past eight years, Hansen has put in a lot of time helping with the new Brick Memory Walk in City Park.

“I do a lot of volunteer work on the side, bowl and anything else to keep busy,” she said with the hint of a chuckle.

But working with seniors seems to be at the top of her list when it comes to volunteering.

“I think working with them is a worthwhile cause and more than worth the time you put into it,” Hansen said. “Our volunteer help is great and we couldn’t run the site without it.”

The SHS can order free food from

the Idaho Food Bank but money is still needed for groceries, meat, insurance and to pay the new cook. The group

depends on meal donations and the

Jill Whitcomb replaces Teri Gaylord after resignation

New chef serving seniors in Deary

Geoff Crimmins/Daily NewsInterim cook Doris Hansen serves meals to seniors at Deary Community Center.

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occasional fund-raiser.Hansen is donating her ser-

vices for the next few weeks.Jody Smith, who has lived

in Deary since 1953, is another faithful SHS volunteer. She and husband, Jerry, are semi-retired farmers who live on a 160-acre spread southeast of Deary at Park. They have three children, seven grand-children and five great-chil-dren.

“I have volunteered for the past 12 years doing everything from decorating to setting tables and occasionally cook-ing for the cook in charge to cleaning up,” said the 74-year-old Smith.

She also serves on the SHS board of directors. The group’s meetings are scheduled only as needed.

The Wednesday meals open with a flag salute and prayer.

The food is served at noon.“We usually average around

30 people a week,” Smith esti-mated. “The charge is by donation only, but we suggest $4 per plate. We have a box by the door so no one is aware how much a person puts in.”

Sixty is the qualification age for a senior meal.

“People can bring a caregiv-er or guest and we suggest $5 for those meals,” she added.

Smith stressed the impor-tance given to serving well-bal-anced meals.

“The work at the meal site isn’t truly work it is helping your friends and neighbors,” she concluded. “It is not a handout but mostly compan-ionship.”

Smith previously wrote col-umns titled Park Patter and Quilter’s Quip for the Latah Eagle and occasionally for the Lewiston Tribune.

Vera White can be reached at (208) 746-0646, or by email to [email protected].


Teri Gaylord retired in January from her job as direc-tor of the Deary senior meal site. The 51-year-old had spent seven and a half years cooking for seniors.

“I fell in love with our seniors in this community and I loved my job,” Gaylord said, fighting back tears. “I will be dropping back in occa-sionally.”

Gaylord has lived in Deary for 22 years where husband, Garth, works as an electri-cian. She reflected on her time at the site.

“I knew there were so many good cooks who ate at the site that turning out good down home cooking was my goal,”

she said. “My overall most popular meal was oven-fried chicken. I always followed USDA requirements and then made my own recipes off that

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Handout/Daily NewsDoris Hansen, right, and Terri Gaylord at the Deary senior meal site on Feb. 8.

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BOISE — On the heels of recent electric hikes in Idaho a new survey by AARP released recently found the number of Idahoans 50 or older who report difficulty paying their utility bills is now 83 percent, a 42 percent increase over 2011.

According to the survey of Idaho registered voters over 50, the number reporting extreme difficulty went from skyrocketed from 5 percent in 2011 to 48 percent in recent months, with those saying it was very difficult rose from 10 to 28 percent this year.

More than 60 percent of those surveyed felt their elected officials weren’t doing enough to help.

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ducted this survey Jan. 25 to Feb. 2, and completed 1,001 interviews. A sample of this size has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percent at a 95 percent confidence level, the AARP said.

“When older Idahoans have trouble paying their utility bills, they have often had to choose between paying that bill and prescriptions or grocer-ies,” said Angela Cortez, inter-im state director for AARP in Idaho. “Increasing utility bills are very clearly causing a cri-sis in many households across Idaho, and it’s time for legisla-tive action to help consumers.”

AARP is calling on the leg-islature to establish a utility consumer advocate office to represent consumers in rate hike and regulatory proceed-ings, creating a watchdog to help to fight unfair rate hikes (supported by more than 75 percent of those surveyed).

Idaho is the only state in

the West (and one of only a handful in the nation) without such an office.

AARP has also recently backed legislation (House Bill 554, sponsored by Rep. Marc Gibbs, R-Grace) to shine the light on utility companies’ major expenditures and require them to take into account the effect on consumers during the planning process, a move that would provide consumers with information on the proj-ects upfront, providing a better chance to oppose rate hikes.

“The Idaho Legislature has the opportunity to stand up for Gem State consumers buckling under utility rate hikes on both of these issues and AARP is calling on them to do just that,” added Cortez. “Idaho clearly has to level the playing field for consumers; they are los-ing the battle over rate hikes here, and need some help.” The new survey can be found at: http://bit.ly/wPuymH.

AARP lobbies for consumer advocateThrough the years, Gaylord

has also helped out at the Kendrick senior meal site.

“I try to promote meal sites because I believe in them and think they are important,” she said.

During her time at the Deary site, Gaylord “put into play” several in-home outreach programs including delivering meals to seniors at home.

“I put that into place as soon as I started,” she explained. “I did frozen meals for a week and one hot meal on a weekly basis.”

She served up to five fami-lies a week plus some seniors

picked up their own meals. As with those eating at the site, they paid by donation.

As soon as clean up was done at the meal site, Gaylord and daughter Chelsea would deliver the meals.

In addition to their meals, seniors at the site also enjoyed special attention from Gaylord who would prepare elaborate-ly decorated tiered cakes for events such as special anni-versaries.

“I’ve also kept a photo album through the years,” she said. “These people will always have a special place in my heart.”

Gaylord had to retire because of health issues.

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BOISE – Idahoans living with Alzheimer’s would fill Bronco stadium, a number that will double in 14 years.

Idaho has one of the highest death rates due to the disease in the nation and is projected to have the fifth highest increase in Alzheimer’s nationwide, yet doesn’t have a plan in place to address growing concern.

Recently, the Idaho Senate passed a resolution to move towards changing that. Sen. Dan Schmidt, D-Moscow, was among the sponsors.

The Alzheimer’s Plan reso-lution (SCR112) was passed unanimously. The measure acknowledges the increasing seriousness of the issue in Idaho and provides legislative endorsement of the efforts of

the Idaho Alzheimer’s Planning Group to develop a statewide plan to address the issue.

“Alzheimer’s disease and dementia affect not just the individual, but their families and their loved ones – we need a plan of attack for the worsen-ing issue in Idaho,” said Angela Cortez, interim state director for AARP in Idaho.

“AARP Idaho commends the legislative sponsors of this resolution and will continue to work with all the stakehold-ers to ensure Idaho addresses these issues,” she said.

The AARP-backed reso-lution was co-sponsored by Sens. Schmidt and Joyce Broadsword, R-Sagle, and in the House by Reps. Carlos Bilbao, R-Emmett, John Rusche, D-Nez Perce, and Fred Wood, R-Burley.

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MT. ORAB, Ohio — It’s winter, so Donna Robirds puts on two sweaters in the morn-ing and keeps heavy blankets handy as she sets her ther-mostat low and bundles up to keep her utility bill down.

At 67, with a fixed income and a $563-a-month mort-gage, she lives on a tight budget. Food stamps help the retired state employee stretch her budget in this Appalachian village. So has the mild winter.

“We haven’t had the extreme cold, so it hasn’t been too bad,” she said. “I really need to watch my money. It’s going to be a struggle.”

Robirds’ daily battle is being played out across the Appalachian region, which stretches through 13 states from northeastern Mississippi

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Nationally, with the aging of the baby boom generation, people 65 and over are expect-ed to account for 1 of every 5 Americans by 2030. Some plac-es in Appalachia have already reached it, such as southern Ohio’s Brown County.

“These counties are like the canary in the coal mine,” said Suzanne Kunkel, who heads the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University of Ohio. “This is a pretty dra-matic change coming.”

More than 15 percent of Appalachia’s population is

already at least 65, compared with 13 percent nationally, according to the 2010 Census. And projections show the num-ber rising steadily in much of the region, as it is nationally.

The aging population means more demand for health care, economic help, transporta-tion and home help, which are already in short supply in much of Appalachia.

“It’s getting more urgent in the number of people need-ing those services and having those available to them,” said Robert Roswall, commissioner of West Virginia’s Bureau of Senior Services. “We have peo-ple waiting for all those type of programs.”

Appalachia has long been plagued by isolation, poor roads, sewer systems and other infrastructure needs, lack of education and the decline of coal mining, manufacturing and other key industries.

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“Grass sucks up sunlight. It bounces green,” says Koh. “We end up looking darker in the photo than what we actually see.”

The gray tones of gravel and cement, on the other hand, pro-vide a neutral color that bounc-es up flattering light and fills in shadows on artwork.

William Dohman, who sells wooden signs and scenic imag-es at his store, Oh Dier, at the online marketplace Etsy.com, is an architect and self-taught photographer who plans each photo shoot in his St. Paul, Minn., studio. Dohman likes to photograph his products in front of old buildings, which

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Removing precancerous growths spotted during the test can cut the risk of dying from colon cancer in half, the study suggests. Doctors have long assumed a benefit, but research hasn’t shown before that removing polyps would improve survival — the key measure of any cancer screen-ing’s worth.

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Deaths from colorectal can-cer have been declining for

more than two decades, mostly because of screening including colonoscopies and other tests, the organization says. People of average risk of colon can-cer ages 50 to 75 should get screened, but only about half in the U.S. do.

A government-appointed panel of experts recommends one of three methods: annual stool blood tests; a sigmoidos-copy (scope exam of the lower bowel) every five years, plus stool tests every three years; or a colonoscopy once a decade.

In a colonoscopy, a thin, flex-ible tube with a tiny camera is guided through the large intes-tine. Growths can be snipped off and checked for cancer. Patients are sedated, but many dread the test because it requires patients to eat a modified diet and drink solu-tions the day before to clear out the bowel. It usually costs

more than $1,000, compared with a $20 stool test.

Researchers at Sloan-Kettering previously showed that removing polyps during colonoscopy can prevent colon cancer from developing, but it was not clear whether it saved lives.

The new study followed 2,602 patients who had pre-cancerous growths removed during colonoscopies for an average of 15 years. Their risk of dying from colon cancer was 53 percent lower than what would be expected among a similar group in the general population — 12 patients fol-lowed in the study died, versus 25 estimated deaths in the general population.

The study was not a ran-domized trial that’s the gold

Colonoscopy cuts colon cancer death risk

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Colon cancer deathsDeaths from colon cancer have dropped possibly because polyps found during screening are removed before they can develop into cancer.

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ATLANTA — A federal advisory panel wants all U.S. adults to get vaccinated against whooping cough.

The panel voted Wednesday to expand its recommendation to include all those 65 and older who haven’t gotten a whooping cough shot as an adult.

Children have been vacci-nated against whooping cough since the 1940s, but a vaccine for adolescents and adults was not licensed until 2005.

Since then, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has gradually added groups of adults to its recom-mendations, including 2010 advice that it be given to elder-ly people who spend a lot of time around infants.

Wednesday’s recommen-dation means now all adults should get at least one dose.

“They’ve been moving up

to this in baby steps,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University vaccines expert.

Whooping cough, or pertus-sis, is a highly contagious bac-terial disease that in rare cases can be fatal.

It leads to severe coughing that causes children to make a distinctive whooping sound as they gasp for breath.

Recommendations from the panel are usually adopted by the government, which sends the guidance out to doctors.

Contributing to the push to vaccinate more adults was a California whooping cough epidemic in 2010 that infected 9,000. Ten babies died after exposure to infected adults or older children.

There’s little data on how many elderly people have got-ten the vaccine. Only about 8 percent of adults under 65 have been vaccinated, but about 70 percent of adolescents have.

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standard in medical research. But Robert Smith, director of screening at the American Cancer Society, said it’s the first direct evidence that removing polyps can reduce the risk of colon cancer death.

“There’s no question that these are findings that we can take to the bank,” said Smith, who had no role in the research.

The National Cancer Institute and several cancer organizations paid for the study.

Government and private cancer groups also funded the second study in the journal, led by researchers in Spain.

About 53,000 participants were given a colonoscopy or a stool blood test.

Both tests found similar numbers of colon cancer cases — about 30 in each group.

However, colonoscopies found advanced growths in twice as many people — 514 versus 231 of those given the stool test. Colonoscopy also found 10 times more people with less serious growths than the stool test did.

Neither test proved very appealing — only a quarter of patients offered a colonos-copy had one. Similarly, only a third agreed to the offered stool test.

The Spanish study is con-tinuing and similar research in the U.S. and Norway that began recently is looking at the long-term impacts of colo-

noscopy. Stephen Raquet, of Mount

Kisco, N.Y., finds the test reassuring even if the prepa-ration is unpleasant.

He had his first colonos-copy 13 years ago at age 41, earlier than usual because of a family history of colon can-cer.

The sudden death of his 45-year-old sister from the disease prompted Raquet to get checked out. He had a precancerous growth removed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in 1999, and has had the test every three years since.

During his last appoint-ment four months ago, doc-tors said he can come back in five years.

“It’s given me peace of mind,” said the 54-year-old business executive.

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