HomeMy Public PortalAboutApril 2014 Watertown Senior NewsCOUNCIL ON AGING BOARD Watertown Senior News
Patricia Gold, Chairperson Watertown Council on Aging/Senior Center COA/SENIOR STAFF ENTER
Carol Airasian 31 Marshall St. Caryl Leslie Fox, Director
Dorothy Jean Brown Kathleen Wolf
Michael Donham Watertown, MA 02472 Laura Gold
Burt Greenburg 617-972-6490 Deborah A. Dunn
Mary Keenan Alfredo Bartolozzi
Genevieve C. Martin www.watertown-ma.gov Joseph Cavallaro
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Alice Wadden
APRIL 2014 PAGE I
NEED LEGAL
CELEBRATING SPRING: Through a
ADVICE?
Wildlife Photographer's Lens
The Boston College Legal
' ' A Photographic and Musical Presentation by
Carole Smith Berney, Watertown Wildlife Pho-
Assistance Bureau provides
community outreach services
f
tographer
at the Senior Center through
When: 9:30 a.m. Wednesday April 2
the Elder Law Services Pro-
Where: Watertown Senior Center, 31 Marshall St.
ject.
Please register for this program by calling the
Free legal advice is available
Senior Center at 617-972-6490.
by appointment:
WHEN: 10 am - noon
Join wildlife photographer Carole Smith Berney for a celebration: of the greening of our world, the unfurl -
Friday, April 25
ing of buds into leaves and flowers, birds raising their young, turtles laying eggs, and folks out along the
Charles River celebrating the renewal of life.
Call the Sen-
Carole Smith Berney has received numerous grants and awards related to her wildlife photography, na-
ior Center at
ture writing for children, and local advocacy efforts with the Friends of the Watertown Riverfront. Her mul-
617-972-
6490 for an
timedia shows about the Charles River and exhibits focusing on nature in general and animals in particu-
lar have earned her a local following! Come celebrate the Charles River!
appointment.
PF
This program is made possible by a grant from the Watertown Community Foundation.
Inside this issue:
MEDICARE, SOCIAL SECURITY & YOU - --- --
April Movies 2
Foxwoods Trip 3
Maximize YOUR Benefits -It's Never Too Late to Plan
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CT Museums Trip 3
Have you arranged your benefits in the best way to get """jape Do
the most out of them? How do you know? Come find"
Dental Health 3
out! Chris Grande of Walnut Hill Advisors will help
Protecting Your
answer your questions and many more including:
Egg Nest E 3
• How and when to sign up for Medicare
Book Club 3
• How to handle Medicare claims issues
Medical Update 6
• Reviewing and choosing the best Medicare supplemental policy
Be the 1st to Know 6
• What does Medicare cover - how much nursing care does it cover?
• How to file for Social Security - "file and suspend? Restricted?"
Knitting Group 6
Mellowtones 6
• The 3 main factors to help you decide how to maximize social security - take at
62, 66 or defer to age 70?
Tai Chi 6
. What spousal benefits do you get if divorced or widowed?
Fuel Assistance 6
• How is Social Security taxed? Is Medicare deductible?
CALENDAR 7
It Only Happens Once
WHEN: 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 30
a Year. The Senior
WHERE: Watertown Senior Center, 31 Marshall St.
Center GIANT Indoor 8
Please sign up by calling the Senior Center at 617-972-6490.
Yard Sale!
WATERTOWN SENIOR NEWS
APRIL 2014
,sari 1 Movie Matinee
Relax and enjoy a movie in our comfortable lounge Thursday afternoons at
1:00 P. M.
4/3 - LIFE OF PI Based on Yann
Martel's best-
selling novel
and adapted by
Academy
Award winning
director, Ang
Lee, this com-
ing -of -age tale
recounts the
adventures of
Pi, an Indian boy , the sole survi-
vor of a shipwreck who finds him-
self on a lifeboat with only some
zoo animals for company. Pi, the
son of a zookeeper survives by
stowing away on a lifeboat with a
zebra, an orangutan, a hyena, and
a Bengal tiger by the name of
Richard Parker. Suraj Sharma
heads up the cast as the young
boy, with Gerard Depardieu, Adil
Hussain, Irrfan Khan, Tobey
Maguire, and Bollywood actress,
Tabu. (2012) PG 127 min.
4/10- 42 The sto-
ry of the historic
42 1947 baseball
agc..,iiiseason in which
Brooklyn Dodgers
-general manager
Y`,' Branch Rickey
(Harrison Ford)
decides to sign
the first black ma-
jor league player, Jackie Robinson
(Chadwick Boseman). Though
Robinson faces vicious racism
from other clubs fans and on occa-
sion his own teammates, Rickey
encourages him to not fight back.
By following that advice, Robinson
allows his remarkable athletic talent
to speak for itself, and soon be-
comes one the most popular play-
ers on the team eventually securing
the Rookie of the Year award. With
Christopher Meloni and Hamish
Linklater. (2013) PG-13 128 min.
4/17 THE HEAT
A straight-laced
FBI agent and a
caustic Boston
cop team to take
down a powerful
drug lord in this
buddy comedy
starring Sandra
Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, and
directed by Paul Feig (Freaks and
Geeks, Bridesmaids). Demian
Bichir, Marlon Wayans, and Mi-
chael Rappaport co-star. (2013) R
117 min.
4/24- 21 Based on the best-selling
novel Bringing Down the House:
The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Stu-
dents Who Took Vegas for Millions
the true story of six genius students
who used their brains to beat con-
siderable odds. Ben Campbell (Jim
Sturgess) is shy but brilliant, but if
he can't pay his tuition he'll be
kicked out of M.I.T. Fortunately, the
answer to all his problems is in the
cards. Recruited to join a team of
extremely gifted students who have
used their mastery
of numbers to beat
the odds at black-
jack, Ben procures a
' fake identity in order
to join the casino
scammers and their
brilliant leader ec-
centric math profes-
sor and stats genius Micky Rosa
(Kevin Spacey) in some highly
profitable weekend excursions to
Las Vegas. Counting cards isn't
illegal, and by using a complex se-
ries of signals, this team has
cracked the code. Of course, it
doesn't take long for Ben to be-
come seduced by the glamorous
Las Vegas lifestyle, and the atten-
tion afforded to him by his sexy
teammate Jill Taylor (Kate Bos-
worth) finds him pushing his luck to
the absolute limits. Laurence
Fishburne stars as Cole Williams,
the Sin City security chief who
catches on to the group and
makes it his mission to expose
their lucrative blackjack scam.
(2008) PG-13 122 min.
5/1 THE LITTLE COLONEL
When a Southern
belle (Evelyn Vena-
ble) married a Yan-
kee (John Lodge),
her father (Lionel
Barrymore), a for-
`", ° mer Confederate
colonel, promptly
disowned her. Now,
years, later, the
couple's only daughter (Shirley
Temple) visits the family plantation
to meet her grandfather and heal
old wounds. But will her spunk and
a charming tap dance with the
family butler (Bill "Bojangles" Rob-
inson) be enough to win the crusty
old man's heart? (1935) PG 80
min.
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Qo Dates coming up in April at the Try 'cur Fuck at Fcxwccds!
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ly, 31 Marshall St. Join the Watertown Seniors on a trip to Foxwoods
THE SENIOR CENTER BOOK CLUB will discuss Liar's
Poker. Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
by Michael Lewis.
WHEN: 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 16
SING FOR THE FUN OF IT with the Mellowtones!
New members are always welcome so join in!
A $2.00 donation is requested.
WHEN: 12:30 p.m. Friday April 4, 11 and 25
DO YOU KNIT OR CROCHET? The Knitting Group
makes items for members of the armed services, veter-
ans, seniors, infants, and others in need. They meet:
When: 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 16
The group is always in need of yarn. Please bring dona-
tions to the Senior Center. Thanks!
Casino this April.
WHEN: Thursday,
April 24
LEAVE: 8:30 a.m.
RETURN: 5:30 p.m.
COST: $25.00 which
includes a $15.00 cou-
Don for Keno, a $10.00
food coupon that may be used for the Grand Buffet
and tip for the driver. Sign up and pay at the
Watertown Senior Center, 31 Marshall St.
Call 617-972-6490 for more information.
A Connecticut Museum Tour!
Two world class museums, and a delicious luncheon will make for a lovely day in May!
We start the day with a tour of The William Benton Museum of Art, a small, elegantly de-
signed Collegiate Gothic structure with a gracious sculpture garden at UConn. Next stop, a
scrumptious lunch at Sorella specializing in traditional Italian cuisine with a modern flare. A
short drive takes us to the Wadsworth Athenaeum for a
Mount Desert- Fredric Edwin Church
guided tour. There will be time to shop in the museum
shops and explore on your own at both museums.
WHEN: Thursday, May 29
LEAVE: 8:00 a.m. RETURN: 6:00 p.m.
COST: $76.00 (includes museum tours & admission,
luncheon and tip for driver.) Sign up & pay at the Water-
town Senior Center, 31 Marshall St. (617-972-6490)
Woman with her Child - Mary Cassatt
Dental Health
PROTECTING YOUR
Proper oral care can keep you smiling well into re-
NEST EGG
tirement. Join us when Dr. Dario Gonzalez from
Arturo Paturzo & Paul Sica from
Dental Partners of Watertown visits the center to
NY Life will discuss financial
talk about dental health!
topics of interest to seniors including:
WHEN: 9:30 a.m.
Estate Taxes, The Probate Process, Managing Retirement
Wednesday, April 23
Income, Gifting, Trusts, Uses for Life Insurance, Nursing
WHERE: Watertown Senior
Homes & Medicaid, and Long Term Care Insurance.
Center, 31 Marshall St.
WHEN: 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 9
Call the Senior Center at 617-
WHERE: Watertown Senior Center, 31 Marshall St.
972-6490 to sign up.
Please register for this program by calling the Senior Cen-
ter at 617-972-6490.
PAGE 4 WATERTOWN SENIOR NEWS APRIL 2014
HOSPITAL OBSERVATION STAYS AND ORIGINAL MEDICARE
Hospitals are increasingly admitting patients under observation status. Patients under "observation" are considered outpatients even
though they may stay in a hospital bed for many days. For those with Original Medicare, outpatient stays at a hospital could result in
increased costs. For instance, Medicare requires a three-day inpatient stay at a hospital before it will pay for any stay in a skilled
nursing facility and time spent under "observation" in a hospital will not count toward that three-day minimum.
In addition, a Medicare Supplement (Medigap) will not cover any of the costs of the skilled nursing care if Medicare has not paid
first. So patients with Original Medicare who have been under observation status, whether they have a Medigap or not, must decide
whether to pay out-of-pocket for the medically necessary rehab/skilled nursing care, or cut care short and return home, because they
are unable to cover the costs.
Medicare Advantage plans will cover costs of skilled nursing facility care, if it is medically necessary, because they do not have a
three-day minimum in a hospital stay requirement. However, in a Medicare Advantage plan, skilled nursing facility services are sub -
eject to co -payments, which can be substantial.
Currently, there are bills filed in both houses of Congress (the Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013) requiring that
time spent in "observation" be counted towards meeting the three-day prior inpatient stay that is necessary to qualify for Medicare
coverage in a skilled nursing facility. All members of the Massachusetts delegation support this pending legislation.
Trained SHINE (Serving Health Insurance Needs of Everyone ... on Medicare) volunteers offer free, confidential counseling on all
aspects of health insurance to anyone on Medicare. To schedule a SHINE appointment, call the Watertown Senior Center at 617-
972-6490. For other SHINE related matters, call 1-800-AGE-INFO (1-800-243-4636), then press or say 3. Once you get the SHINE
answering machine, leave your name and number. A volunteer will call you back, as soon as possible.
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COUNCIL ON AGING BOARD
The COA Board meets at the Watertown
Senior Center, 31 Marshall St. at 5:30 p.m.,
Wednesday April 9, 2014.
"WRITING & REMINISCENCE"
WRITING WORKSHOP
Have your children or grand-
children asked you to tell them
- ..� more about what things were
like when you were growing
up? Do you enjoy telling stories
about your life but can't seem to get started
writing them down? ?
This workshop will help provide the structure
get you writing! Learn writing tips and en-
gage in informal exercises as we reminisce
about the past.
The workshop will be offered by Jennifer
Quinlan who has a background in journalism
and social work and experience leading mem-
oir and creative writing workshops with older
adults in the Watertown area. Jennifer be-
lieves everyone has a story to tell and every-
one can write.
The workshop will meet Thursdays 9:30 -
11:00 a.m. May 8, 15, and 22, and June 12,
19, and 26. Pre -registration is required. Call
the Senior Center to sign up.
ENERGYAND BALANCE WITH TAI CHI
Anyone, regardless of age or physical ability, can
practice Tai Chi. Older adults find it especially ap-
pealing because the movements are low impact and
put minimal stress on muscles and joints. Tai Chi's
best documented health effect is its ability to im-
prove balance, and it can also reduce stress, in-
crease energy and flexibility, and improve strength.
WHEN: Fridays at 12:30 pm April 4,
11 and 25
WHERE: Watertown Senior Center
31 Marshall St
COST: $5.00 per class drop in i6
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Medical screenings listed
below are all held on
Thursday mornings
April lYs Roatime Fool Care by podiatrist, Dr. DavidA/per
in order of sign -in stodgy at ffsOO ass. The colt for
this service is $25.00 payable to Dr, Alper. Insurance is
not accepted.
April 24 Blood Pressare by Linda Mick/ay, R.N. from
Care Group Home Care in order of sign -in stodgy at *30
a.m. There is no charge for this service but donations to the
Senior Center are appreciated.
BE THE FIRST TO KNOW!
Have the Watertown Senior News emailed to your
home computer every month by going to the
Town website: www.watertown-ma.gov
and signing up on the `Notify Me' list. Follow the
link on the left side of the home page, scroll down
to Watertown Senior News and check it off!
Or call the Senior Center at 617-972-6490 wit
your email address & we'll ad
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The Federally funded Low -Income Home Energy Assistance
Program (LIHEAP) accepts new applications through April 30.
The program assists low-income individuals and families with the
cost of heating their homes. Eligibility is based on household size
and the gross annual income of every household member.
Watertown seniors who are applying for the first time should call the
Senior Center at 617-972-6490 to make an appointment.
The Senior Center
will be closed
Patriots Day
Monday, April 21
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It only happens once a year...
THE WATERTOWN SENIOR CENTER a .Yard
GIANT INDOOR YARD SALE! sale
WHEN: SATURDAY, MAY 3
10:00 am until 2:00 pm
WHERE: Watertown Senior Center, 31 Marshall St.
Admission is still only 250 and
all proceeds benefit the Watertown Senior Center!
.Yard
gale
We need your donations of tools, toys, books, costume jewelry,
kitchen items, etc. (please, no clothes, shoes or electronics)
Bring your donations to the Senior Center starting Mondav, April 28th.
We're open 8:30
We also need volunteers
Call us at 617-972-6491
WATERTOWN COUNCIL ON AGING
SENIOR CENTER
31 MARSHALL ST.
WATERTOWN, MA 02472