CNA-SS- 9-25-2013

A SPECIAL SECTION OF FALL ISSUE 2013

Finding fulfillment in retirement takes workBy SARAH BROWNCNA staff reporter [email protected]

What would you do if you had the time?

Whether it is because they are following a lifelong passion or in search of supplemental income, more seniors are becoming en-trepreneurs in retirement.

Reasons for retirees starting their own business vary. Some retirees find they have the time

or the funds to pursue entrepre-neurial endeavors, some fear they may outlive their retire-ment plan and others find it dif-ficult to become employed part-time in an already competitive workforce.

Whatever the reason, three lo-cals found a new, different and fulfilling path to self sufficiency in retirement.

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Junking is awesome Sheila O’Riley turns ‘trash’ into ‘treasures’

By SARAH BROWNCNA staff [email protected]

Sheila O’Riley, 55, of Lenox, who retired from the Adams County Soil and Water Conservation Dis-trict after 36 years of ser-vice, didn’t stray far from her passion for conserva-tion when diving in to start-ing her own businesses.

O’Riley planned for re-tirement but didn’t plan to open her own business.

It was through a mutual friend that O’Riley met her now business partner René Foster.

O’Riley said she had of-ten entertained the idea of opening a store for her upcycled and repurposed garden art and home decor, but acquiring a storefront or building seemed daunt-ing — until she was intro-duced to Foster.

O’Riley and Foster quickly became friends and within months of meeting, their shared interest in art and conservation became a

business.O’Riley now spends her

time creating upcycled garden art and home de-cor — a business she calls JunkAwesome out of her home.

O’Riley and her business partner also opened She-Nae’s Rescued and Re-newed, 311 W. Montgomery St., in the spring of 2013, which serves as a storefront for O’Riley’s creations and upcycled and repurposed items made by local con-signers from Iowa.

“It’s so much more physi-cal labor than I imagined,” said O’Riley, who is of-ten sourcing, sanding and painting furniture for the store.

However, O’Riley isn’t complaining. Whereas, her former position with the water district didn’t offer much variety in the day to day activities, O’Riley said now she is having more fun.

“I’m doing things I en-joy,” said O’Riley. “I still have to do paperwork, but not as much.

CNA file photosSheila O’Riley, above, spreads caulk on a glass dish to create garden totem which she sells at local craft fairs and at her shop She-Nae’s, 311 W. Montgomery St.

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Personal growth is one perk found in retirement for Janice WarrenBy SARAH BROWNCNA staff reporter [email protected]

After 29 years of service, Janice Warren, 63, of Afton retired from East Union Community School where she worked as a paraprofes-sional, secretary and tech-nology assistant.

If you ask Warren if she ever envisioned opening a greenhouse, she will chuckle and say “not at all.”

It was at a master garden-ing class where Warren met fellow gardening enthusiast Angela Coke of Creston.

“When I met Angela, we just clicked,” said Warren. “We both have a love of plants, flowers and garden-ing.”

According to Warren, it wasn’t long after they met before Coke’s husband Chris asked, “So when you opening a greenhouse?”

“I thought it was a joke,” said Warren.

After Warren retired in 2011, the planning began. Less than one year later, Savta’s Greenhouse, 1433 Highway 34, was estab-lished.

Warren said the green-house is more work than she thought, but more fun than a traditional job.

“We sell what we like and know will sell,” said Warren. Planning happens year-around. In November, Warren and Coke begin to thumb through catalogs to decide what plants to sell.

Once everything is planted, Warren said she spends a lot of time watering, which she said takes time and careful planning as not to over-wa-ter neighboring plants.

To others thinking about starting their own business in retirement, Warren said to look around and see if there’s a need.

Warren, who said she can be somewhat shy, said the business has been good for her. “I’m forced to talk with and meet people,” said War-ren. “It’s a good thing.” Despite being uncomfort-able at times, Warren re-ally enjoys what she does. “It’s more fun now than when I was young and work-ing a job because I had to.”

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CNA file photoSavta’s Greenhouse, 1433 Highway 34, features a variety of flowers and plants hand-planted by co-owners Janice Warren and Angela Coke. Savta’s will re-open in spring 2014.

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Building a retirement Custom furniture draws the attention of customers from ‘coast to coast’ for Darius Boone

By SARAH BROWNCNA staff reporter [email protected]

Darius Boone of Afton spent almost a year search-ing for the right opportunity before he decided to take the skills he learned as a child and start his own cus-tom furniture business.

Prior to his search for employment, Boone and his wife Elane owned and operated family-run Rusk Food and Fuel in Afton for 25 years.

Once the Boones sold the family business, he managed Terrible’s Casino gas station in Osceola for five years and thought about retirement after it sold to Pilot in 2010.

“You’ve got to do some-thing,” said Boone. “You can’t just sit around the house. When you get to be 66 or 67 years old, no one is going to hire you. So you’ve got to come up with some-thing to do.”

Creating custom furni-ture is a skill Boone said he learned as a child while helping his father Gordon Boone, who ran an uphol-stery business in Red Oak.

“It’s like riding a bicycle,” said Boone. “You never for-get. You just jump right back in.”

Boone began his custom furniture business by mak-ing live-edge furniture using local sources of maple, oak and walnut.

Live-edge or natural-edge is a style of furniture where a carpenter incorporates the natural edge of the wood into the design.

His live-edge pieces range from smaller items, such as mixed-media wall art, to large items, such as dining tables and sofas.

Boone used to take his furniture to art and craft shows in Des Moines, but that was becoming costly to transport and display items, especially if he didn’t make

many sales.Now, Boone sells mostly

through a website, www.cus-tommade.com, where he is able to bid on projects and feature a gallery of his past work.

As Boone tells his story, he is tufting a cream-colored velvet chaise lounge chair for an interior designer in Arizona — each button painstakingly covered in co-ordinating fabric, threaded, measured and stitched into place about every six inches.

Despite how meticulous the request, it is a process he enjoys.

Boone has designed, built and shipped furniture to California, New Jersey and handfuls of states inbe-tween.

“I’ve basically done coast to coast,” said Boone.

Boone hasn’t built furni-ture for anyone famous, yet, but a woman in Oklahoma hired him to custom make an ottoman replicating one

belonging to Maroon 5 sing-er Adam Levine she saw in a magazine.

“If you buy lumber on the east or west coast, by the time you get it shipped here, you have so much money wrapped up in it you can’t be competitive,” said Boone.

To keep his cost low, Boone uses locally-sourced items.

He said he also uses the same upholstery-supply house in Des Moines his fa-ther used “years and years and years” ago.

Money aside, Boone said his choice of work is person-

ally fulfilling.“It’s a lot of fun,” said

Boone. “It’s fun to have people have something in their mind and be able to talk to them and find out what it is, create it and have them like what you’ve cre-ated.”

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M illions of boomers may suffer from chronic Hepatitis C without knowing it

(BPT) — Did you know that Hepatitis C is a leading cause of liver cancer and the number one reason for liver transplants in America? Be-tween 1999 and 2007, more people died from Hepatitis C related complications than HIV. Despite this, many people live with the Hepati-tis C virus for years, without experiencing any symptoms, while it silently causes liver damage. At particular risk is the growing population of baby boomers - adults born between 1945 and 1965. Baby boomers account for over 75 percent of Hepatitis C cases and are five times more like-ly to be infected than those in other age groups.

As a result, the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion (CDC) recommend that all baby boomers get tested

for Hepatitis C, regardless of whether they think they are at risk.

Dr. Donald M. Jensen, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Liver Diseases at the Uni-versity of Chicago Medi-cal Center, explains, “Most boomers may have been infected in the 1970s and 1980s when Hepatitis C virus rates were the highest. Since chronic Hepatitis C can go unnoticed for decades, many baby boomers may not even know they are infected. Uni-versal screening of blood wasn’t in place until 1992, so many boomers may have been infected from receiving contaminated blood prod-ucts without being aware. I encourage all baby boom-ers to speak to their doctor about getting tested.”

As baby boomers with Hepatitis C age, it becomes more likely that they will suffer serious complications. Since many baby boomers don’t realize they are at risk and aren’t getting tested, the number of Hepatitis C relat-ed deaths is increasing. How-ever, once those infected are diagnosed through a blood test, they can speak to their doctor and take the neces-sary steps to manage their condition. It’s important that those who have Hepatitis C realize that they shouldn’t feel ashamed.

Dr. Jensen and the CDC would like to see all boom-ers get tested for Hepatitis C and if positive, seek fol-low-up care. Speak to your doctor or visit www.cdc.gov for more information about Hepatitis C.

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Delta Dental supports healthy aging month JOHNSTON – During Na-

tional Healthy Aging Month in September, Delta Dental of Iowa cautions older adults to guard against a danger-ous side effect of more than 400 prescribed and over-the-counter medications – dry mouth.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports about four out of five older adults suffer from a chronic condition, and half have at least two.

Oftentimes, chronic condi-tions are treated with a vari-ety of prescription medica-tions that could lead to dry mouth.

Dry mouth occurs when salivary glands are unable to

produce enough saliva. But it’s more than just irritating and mildly uncomfortable. “As our population ages, there are more people with chronic medical conditions taking multiple prescription medications,” said Dr. Ed Schooley, DDS, dental direc-tor for Delta Dental of Iowa. “It’s important to remember that many of these may cause dry mouth and increase the risk for tooth decay and other oral problems. Regular visits to the dentist can help aging adults with early detection of any problems and appropri-ate guidance.”

Many medications that treat chronic illnesses – such as hay fever, heart disease,

Parkinson’s disease, high blood pressure and depres-sion – are known to cause dry mouth.

The American Dental As-sociation (ADA) has even advocated for warning-label information on these types of “xerogenic” medications.

According to the ADA, chronic dry mouth is a com-mon adverse effect for the following medication groups:

• Cardiovascular medica-tions (e.g., diuretics or cal-cium channel blockers)

•Anticholinergic agents for treatment of urinary inconti-nence (e.g., oxybutynin and tolterodine)

• Tricyclic antidepressants (e.g., amitriptyline)

• Anti-psychotic agents (e.g., chlorpromazine)

• Anti-Parkinson’s medica-tions (e.g., benzatropine)

• Anti-allergy medications (e.g., antihistamines)

If your mouth becomes dry after taking a medication, you may want to mention it to

your physician. Sometimes, an equally effective substitute medication can be prescribed that does not have the same side effect.

To help you maintain good oral health and stimulate sali-va, your dentist might suggest sipping water or sucking on

ice chips frequently, avoiding alcohol, caffeine and tobacco products, chewing sugar-free gum or sucking on sugar-free candie

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Avoid l earned helplessness through empowerment By AMY EDMUNSON-BONEBRAKEPrairie View Assisted Living administrator

Aging is just as much a psychological process as it is a physical process.

We, as professionals in the caring profession, need to use the good judgment and awareness to help oth-ers and to help others re-main independent and able to help themselves.

Let’s take a look at the concept of learned helpless-ness.

Learned helplessness is a psychological theory in-troduced in the mid-1960s by Martin Seligman. It has been used to help under-stand many animal and hu-man behaviors. This theory explores a psychological condition in which a hu-man being or an animal has learned to act or behave helplessly in a particular sit-uation — usually because of a perceived absence of con-trol over the outcome of a situation. Researchers have applied this theory to differ-ent situations over the years, such as sports, unemploye-ment and addiction. Those in the gerontology field ap-ply this with aging.

This is how.As professionals in a care-

giving field, we like to help others.

This is why many of us chose this profession. We could do anything we want-ed to, but we chose to be trained to care for people. We have an inert benevo-lent “something” that makes us want to not just care for

our own families, because we do that, too, we care for others who are not related to us.

That very internal special something can inadvertently do more harm than good at times, because sometimes, the more we do for others, the less folks have opportu-nities to do for themselves.

The less the available op-portunities people have to do things for themselves, the less people will do for them-selves. This can result in loss of independence.

Before you know it, the caregiver doesn’t realize they are not encouraging in-dependence, but rather pro-moting dependence.

This process doesn’t hap-pen on purpose, or over-night.

Sometimes, it may just be more convenient for the caregiver to just do the care themselves than to allow ex-tra time for the recipient of the care to participate.

Sometimes there are negative stereotypes of older adults – that they are incapable, unable, “too old.”. The recipient of care becomes less engaged in dai-ly life and becomes less able beyond the “normal aging” process. We become depen-dent on others for tasks that we sometimes are very capa-ble of doing ourselves. This can also create lack of con-fidence, depression, anxiety, fear and resentment.

We need to continue to be engaged in life and daily activities and grab those opportunities to safely do what we can for ourselves.

This way, we can maintain our functional mobility and physical ability.

The recipient of care should be afforded choices. If someone has a low per-ceived personal control, this can cause them to feel com-pletely powerless to change their circumstances for the better.

As a caregiver, we should be aware not to take those meaningful opportunities away.

Provide time for the reci-peint of care to accomplish a task.

Ask the recipient of care “Would you like to give it (the task) a shot?” (if it can be done so safely)

Provide encouragement and praise!

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from hearing loss, you’re not alone. Nearly 20 percent of American adults suffer from hearing loss. And, as you age, the possibility of hearing loss increases. Thir-ty percent of Americans older than 65 suffer from hearing loss, and that num-ber reaches 50 percent for people older than 75.

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