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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015
Contents
Living
Well
A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR YOUR GENERATION
50 Plus
Nov/Dec 2015
Read LivingWell50+ Digital:
NOV / DEC 2015
VOL. 11 ISSUE 5
ENTERTAINMENT • HEALTH • BARGAINS • LIFESTYLE
Celebrating
5
Getting Through the Holidays
7
Clearer, Sharper Vision in Minutes with LASIK
8
Reaching Out: Advice for helping friends in mourning
9
PRODUCT PLACEMENT
Gatorade
12 THE FOOD DUDE
What’s for Thanksgiving Dinner?
14 TRAVEL
FROM THE
LIFE
in Christian Love
Wesley Village
community is
dedicated to
‘Keeping the
Mission Alive’
COVER
PAGE
Family Getaway to Cincinnati
Walker-friendly city has lots to offer
24
15 Landscaping Trends: Edible Landscaping
16 EVENTS CALENDAR
WRITERS
18 SENIOR SERVICES DIRECTORY
24 FROM THE COVER
Celebrating Life in Christian Love
28 GAR Disability Advocates
+ is
Living Well 50 of
uct
a proud prod
30 ASK DON
Your Questions on Aging Answered
FROM THE
EDITOR
Dear Friends,
Here’s a fun word for you:
merryatric, which means
a happy older person. Ann
Wilson coined it for an
online make-up-a-word
contest. It’s the perfect way
to describe someone who is
Living Well 50 Plus. Everybody else might think
he or she is slowing down and succumbing to the
Don Hoffman
Angela S. Hoover
Jean Jeffers
Jamie Lober
Abby Malik
Dr. Tom Miller
Lisa M. Petsche
Jan Ross
Charles Sebastian
Doris Settles
Martha Evans Sparks
STAFF
Tanya Tyler
editor/staff writer
John Brokamp
publisher
Janet Roy
director of creative services
Kim Blackburn
sales representative
John Hoffeld
sales representative
McKinsey Allen
sales assistant
Tanya Tyler • [email protected]
usual age-related setbacks. But he or she knows
she’s doing great and enjoy life to the fullest!
Here’s to all you merryatrics out there, living
and laughing to the max. Keep going strong and
showing everyone how it’s done.
Live life like you mean it!
Tanya
merryatric: happy older person