Legalized medical pot may be a boon to older Americans, boosting their health and ability to work, a new study finds.
“Research [on medical marijuana] has largely ignored older adults even though they experience the highest rates of medical issues that could be treated with medical marijuana,” said co-author Lauren Hersch Nicholas. She’s an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
Her team analyzed responses of more than 100,000 adults, 51 and older, who took part in the 1992-2012 Health and Retirement Study. The survey looked at health and job market situations among older Americans.
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Thanks to Yale Alama for sending this photograph and the following comments to Retiree News.
Wanted to send you all a picture of what we call Da Kupuna Klub (HIARNG). A bunch of retirees that got together for lunch and a good time.
In the photograph are:
Back Row (L-R): Reynold Tamayei, Harry Miller, Stan Keolanui, Richard Tanaka, Louis “Moon” Kauakahi, Yale Alama, Bert Yanagida, Hubert Chang
Front Row: Al Witzell, Vern Miyagi, Robert Inouye, Milton Yee, Kurtis Mabe, Leighton Sui
This luncheon was held in the 99 Ranch Market food court. Harry Miller was visiting from his home in Arizona.
Thanks to Bob Inouye who helped with identifying the Hawaii Army National Guard retirees. Bob mentioned that Tim Galbisoi was at the luncheon, but not in the photograph.
Off the Hawaii Air National Guard Facebook page
This past week our HIANG Recruiting and Retention team attended the 2019 Air National Guard (ANG) Annual Certification Training Course for all ANG recruiters. At the training two of our very own recruiters were honored and recognized in front of the entire ANG recruiting community.
Master Sergeant Todd Shak was awarded Rookie Recruiting & Retention Manager of the Year Region 1 for Fiscal Year 18. Region 1 encompasses Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and all the states/U.S.territories to the west into the Pacific AOR.
Technical Sergeant Sharon Pasion was presented the Silver Award which is given to recruiters who enlisted at least 45 recruits for Fiscal Year 18.
Congratulations to MSgt Shak and TSgt Pasion for your outstanding achievements, dedication to the recruiting program, and for representing the State of Hawaii and the Hawaii Air National Guard. We are all proud of you both!
Photographs: Special thanks to those who took the time to submit photographs to Retiree News. Many were family photographs and we thank these supporters for sharing memories. Others were photographs of retiree get-togethers and we always want to see those we served with during our active Guard years.
We sometimes have challenges identifying those in the older photographs. But we send them out to supporters who have long Guard service for their assistance. Thanks to those supporters.
If you have any old or new photographs of Guardmembers, could you scan them to JPEGs and email them to: retireenews@gmail.com. Everyone enjoys these photographs.
Oh the memories. The spirit of Aloha lives on. Give us a like if you miss the “Funbirds” of Aloha Airlines. Mahalo nui loa. #AlohaAirlines pic.twitter.com/J5aSEo9qD8
— Aloha Airlines (@Aloha_Airlines) February 24, 2019
Aloha Airlines ceased service on March 31, 2008. There were efforts to save the airline, but in the end, 1,900 employees lost their jobs.
It’s an uninformed and inaccurate assumption to think about the period between age 50 and elderly as one single period. It’s as naïve as assuming all boomers are alike, needing and wanting the same things at the same time. It is naïve because it sets us up to be surprised and less adaptable when change — voluntary and involuntary — arrives.
I also think the period between age 50 and elderly is best described as three overlapping periods, not defined by age. They are defined by life situation, and different people arrive at them at different ages and from different circumstances. I’ll explain the three periods and give you examples of people in them.
From the Task and Purpose website
Two employees of a Colorado Springs hotel have been fired after making a sign critical of military personnel and displaying the sign at a military ball, hotel officials said.
The incident happened March 14 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Colorado Springs, according to the hotel’s general manager, Daniel Kammerer.
Kammerer was apologetic about the sign, which said: “No longer serving military personnel & their guest(s).”
Continue reading BUT be sure to read Will Black’s comments below the article.
On a site known as Keaukaha, the Hilo Airport is shown in 1929. Later in the year, Inter-Island Airways would start commercial service flying their Sikorsky S-38s. In 1943 the airport would be renamed as General Lyman Field (ITO) after the first U.S. General of Hawaiian ancestry. pic.twitter.com/DSbq0p9njF
— Hawaii Aviation ✪ (@HawaiiAviation) March 25, 2019
50 years after first flight, we revisit some of the decisions that helped shape the iconic @BoeingAirplanes 747 https://t.co/df7rrzTN27 #WhyILoveThe747 @boeing pic.twitter.com/3LejmLMvrB
— Aviation Week (@AviationWeek) February 8, 2019
From the U.S. News & World Report website
High cholesterol is a key contributor toward an individual’s cardiovascular disease risk. Health care providers are now using a new set of guidelines published in November 2018 that may change diagnosis and treatment of “high” cholesterol in people of all ages. This new set of guidelines, issued by the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and other medical societies, has important implications for your cholesterol levels and for your heart.
From the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration website
On March 28, 2017, President Donald J. Trump, signed into law The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017, designating every March 29 as National Vietnam War Veterans Day.
National Vietnam War Veterans Day joins six other military-centric national observances codified in Title 4 of the United States Code §6 (i.e., Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, Navy Day, Veterans Day).
From the Kaiser Health News website
When Beverly Dunn called her new primary care doctor’s office last November to schedule an annual checkup, she assumed her Medicare coverage would pick up most of the tab.
The appointment seemed like a routine physical, and she was pleased that the doctor spent a lot of time with her.
Until she got the bill: $400.
Dunn, 69, called the doctor’s office assuming there was a billing error. But it was no mistake, she was told. Medicare does not cover an annual physical exam.
See how the HIANG takes care of home to take care of the mission.https://t.co/UY7hznZKNv #strongbonds pic.twitter.com/eQoez92KbI
— Hawaii Air National Guard (@HiAirGuard) March 26, 2019
View the video on the Hawaii Air National Guard’s Facebook page
No matter what career field, mentorship & quality training is always a guarantee in the HIANG. Meet one of our newest pilots in the 203rd Air Refueling Squadron, 1st Lt. Devon Ferguson. To his right, Lt. Col. Jason Palmeira-Yen mans the co-pilot seat during a training mission. pic.twitter.com/KIlVg4cU9I
— Hawaii Air National Guard (@HiAirGuard) March 22, 2019
The 203d Air Refueling Squadron is a unit of the 154th Wing. It is an associate Unit with the 96th Air Refueling Squadron at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
The squadron flies the KC-135R Stratotanker, which provides the core aerial-refueling capability for the Air Force and has been in this role for more than 50 years. It also provides aerial-refueling support to Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps and allied-nation aircraft. The KC-135 is also capable of transporting litter and ambulatory patients using patient support pallets during aeromedical evacuations.
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