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Senior America
Online Magazine.

Editors Notes
Retirement Living TV Network gives Honor to
   Ms Senior America 2003, Dr Sandra Greco, MD
Joke of the Month
Editors Article - A visit to Minnesota's Senior America
Listen-up     - Crime

On Succeeding Pages;

Senior News
     - Grandparenting
     - News from California
     - Party at the Class Reunion

Fashion

Facts and Fiction
     - Guide to NO Stress Vacations

Your Health
     - Weight Control
     - Lessons of Happiness
     - On Your Mind
     - The CHIROPRACTIC CONUNDRUM
     - Taking Action
     - Alternative Medicine
     - Cut Your Healthcare Cost
     - Rx Safety Tip

Cooking Lite

New Topics
     - Time and Money
     - Public relations Disaster

EDITOR’S NOTES…….


I started out planning a special section on music for this issue.  But I found myself with so much great information that I ended up adding a new topic to the June issue.  “Listen Up”. Now in August, I find that I am adding other new topics, so I guess the mode is to just keep evolving.

When writing about music, I think back when I was growing up.  I grew up in a house full of music, my mother being a piano teacher; I listened to classical music from Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven, and many other composers.  That’s why music is so important in my life.  

As the editor, I do research through literally hundreds of magazines a month to be able to bring you the best articles for your information and entertainment. I hope that you do enjoy the magazine.

EDITOR'S Articles….

Retirement Living TV Network gives Honor to Ms Senior America 2003, Dr Sandra Greco, MD

I was delighted and honored when Sonia Mittelstedt and Felicia French invited me to attend and perform in the Maryland Senior America pageant on August 4, 2006.

When I arrived, Dr. Al Mott told me there was a film crew waiting for me. Retirement Living Network had contacted him to advise that they wanted to do a story on me and my involvement with Senior America. The producer, Tamara Phillips, informed him that they were doing a new television show which launches in New England and Mid-Atlantic on Sept. 5. The show is called "Our Stories" and profiles "seniors living their lives to the fullest." Neither Dr. Mott nor I knew why I was chosen, but were excited to undertake this project.

The four member crew (Debbie, Boots, Dennis, and Matt) were wonderful and filmed and interviewed me for 3 hours. They also spoke with several Senior America personalities including Sonia Mittelstedt, Hope and Wally Heath, and Joyce Reilly Clautice, as well as others. Dr. Mott was also interviewed.
The crew was with us throughout the pageant and had the opportunity to see what a wonderful job all the contestants did, as well as meet the lovely new queen, Mary Watko, and view the excellent talent, including the performance by The Jewels, a vocal trio from Washington, D.C., which includes Sandra Bears, the 2005 Ms. Washington D.C. Senior America.

The crew departed after the pageant, at which time Felicia French, the Maryland director, invited several of us to ride with her in a limo to dinner at a wonderful restaurant in Baltimore. My husband Danny and I were the guests of Sonia and Ed Mittelstedt, and returned to their lovely home on Chesapeake Bay after dinner, where we continued to enjoy the evening.

Needless to say, this Maryland pageant was one of the most exciting and educational experiences I have had with Senior America. I have been told by the Retirement Living Network representatives that the show is to air in early September, and we will be advised as to the date. I know Dr. Mott and all of us look forward to this opportunity of telling people more about Senior America and all we have to offer.

Sandra Greco Drucker

Joke of the Month:

I recently picked a new primary care physician.  After two visits and exhaustive lab tests, he said “I was doing fairly well for my age.”
A little concerned about that comment, I couldn’t resist asking him, “Do you think I’ll live to be 80?”
He asked, “Well, do you smoke tobacco or drink beer or wine?”
“Oh no, I replied.  “I’m not doing either.”  
Then he asked, “Do you eat rib-eye steaks, and barbecued ribs?”
I said, “No, my other doctor said that all red meat is very unhealthy!”
"Do you spend a lot of time in the sun, like laying on the beach, drinking rum punch, playing golf, sailing, hiking, or bicycling?”
No, I don’t, “I said.
He asked, “Do you gamble, drive fast cars, or have a lot of sex?”
“No,” I said. "I don’t do any of those things.”
He looked at me and said,     “Then why do you give a damn if you live to be 80?”



National Directors visit Minnesota Senior America

The National Director's while on a business trip for his employer 'the FAA', visited the Minnesota state director and the Minnesota Cameo Club and had a fabulous time. This state is excited about Senior America and do lots of showcases to tell the world about SA. The following are some photographs taken at at dinner where we were guests of honor:

The whole group at dinner

Not everyone chose to pose for this photo

The State queens present, pose with Sonia

Photo of when we first met to go to dinner

LISTEN UP….

CRIME………

AN FBI PROFILER ZEROES IN ON KILLERS OF OLDER WOMEN………………

In June 2004 police detectives in Oakland County, Mich., were stymied by an specially gruesome case: the sexual assault and multiple-stabbing murder of a 92-year-old woman in her apartment. What sort of person would commit such horrific violence against a largely defenseless victim? Even the seasoned investigators couldn’t imagine who would do such a thing.

An Internet search, however, turned up someone who could: Supervisory Special Agent Mark Safarik, a profiler in the Behavioral Analysis Unit at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va. Safarik’s specialty is peering into the minds of those who sexually assault and kill elderly females.

Relying on insights gleaned from studying 128 such cases, Safarik described the archetype perpetrator, a substance abuser, unsuccessful in relationships with women, economically dependent on a female family member and resentful about it. He would have a history of minor crimes, but probably wouldn’t be a registered sex offender. And he probably wasn’t a stranger. To the contrary, he most likely lived near his victim.

To their shock, detectives in the Michigan case realized that this description almost perfectly fit the victim’s next door neighbor, who eventually was convicted of the crime.

Like the profilers glamorized on television crime shows, Safarik draws on a dizzying array of disciplines to help solve crimes, from Psychology to blood splatter analysis. “I have to know a lot about a lot of things,” he says. When he isn’t poring over crime scene photos or studies of psychopaths, he’ll occasionally venture behind bars to interview a convicted killer.

For these guys, it’s an issue of power and control, with a subtext of anger, “Safarik says. Because they have so little control in their lives, they strike out against a vulnerable, available target; older victims who live alone.

The best defense? In 60 percent of cases, these guys go through a open door or climb in a window. If older women would focus on locking their doors and windows, they could prevent a lot of these crimes.

Source: AARP bulletin, March 2006 issue.

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