From the U.S. News & World Report website
The share of Americans with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias is expected to more than double by 2060 as people increasingly survive into older adulthood, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
An estimated 5 million older adults had Alzheimer’s or a related dementia in 2014, and by 2060 that figure is expected to rise to 13.9 million, or about 3.3 percent of the U.S. population, according to the report, which evaluated health claims data for more than 28 million Medicare beneficiaries.
Extensive research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the getting the flu vaccine prevents the spread of the flu virus.
What else can the flu shot do for you?
+ Keep you from getting sick with flu.
+ Reduce the risk of flu-associated hospitalization, including among children and older adults.
+ Help protect people with chronic health conditions.
+ Lower rates of some cardiac (heart) complications among people with heart disease.
+ Reduced hospitalizations among people with diabetes and chronic lung disease.
+ Helps protect women during and after pregnancy, and protect a baby after birth from flu.
+ Specifically, moms can pass antibodies, which protect against flu infection, to their babies during pregnancy.
+ And, even if you get the flu after being vaccinated, you may have a milder illness and lower your risk of developing serious health complications.
+ A 2017 study showed that flu vaccination reduced deaths, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, length of stay and overall duration of hospitalization among hospitalized flu patients.
+ Getting vaccinated yourself also protects the people around you, including those who are more vulnerable to serious flu illness like babies, young children, older people and people with certain chronic health conditions.
This flu season, make sure you get your flu shot to protect you, your friends, your family and overall public health.
Joseph “Papa Joe” Kanehoa Adams, Jr., 69, of Kaneohe, Hawaii, died in Kaneohe on August 15, 2018. He was born in Honolulu.
Visitation: 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Monday, October 1, 2018 at Hawaiian Memorial Park Mortuary.
Services: 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 2 at St. Ann Catholic Church. Burial: 1:00 p.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park Cemetery.
Joe Adams served in the 201st Combat Communications Group for many years until his retirement.
From the Kamaaian56 flickr photo site
From the Kamaaina 56 website | click on photograph to enlarge
This photograph to the Kamaaina56 Flickr site shows what a pilot would. see on approach to Honolulu International Airport’s runways 4L & 4R. The photograph is probably from the early 1960s. Back then, you could drive around the end of the runways to a back gate to Hickam AFB.
In 1977, the contraction of the 12,000 foot reef runway was completed at a cost of $81 million dollars. During the construction, the back gate was closed and runway 4R was extended. Runway 4L remains at its original length.
Barely seen is the old John Rodger terminal on the right of the two parallel runways. The terminal was abandoned when the new Honolulu International Airport – now known was the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport – was opened in the late 1960s. It is identified as one of the busiest airports in the United States, with traffic now exceeding 22 million passengers a year and rising.
The IRS has a message for retirees: make sure you’re paying enough federal income tax. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of last December changed the income tax calculations for most filers, and employees aren’t the only ones who need to double check they’re withholding the right amount.
From the Kiplinger Magazine website
Caring for aging parents is something you hope you can handle when the time comes, but it’s the last thing you want to think about.
Whether the time is now or somewhere down the road, there are steps you can take to make your life — and their lives, too — a little easier.
It happened #OTD, 19 May 1981, at #EdwardsAirForceBase.#military #aviation #history #F15 pic.twitter.com/ttTo52zds4
— Edwards AFB (@EdwardsAFB) May 19, 2018
In 1981, a late production F-15B (serial number 77-0166) was modified as the test vehicle for the Integrated Flight Fire Control (IFFC)/Firefly III program. The IFFC program was undertaken by McDonnell under a contract from the Air Force for the development of a system which would modify the Eagle’s fire control and flight control systems to accept control inputs from both the pilot and the IFFC flight control system and to tailor flight control response to the various weapons delivery modes. The parallel Firefly III program was conducted by General Electric under an Air Force contract for further development of the fire control system for use against air-to-ground targets.
From the National Public Radio website
Members of the generation that came of age in the era of marijuana are reaching for weed in their golden years.
A study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence this month suggests that increasing numbers of middle aged and older adults are using marijuana — and using it a lot.
The analysis comes from data gathered in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health from 2015 and 2016. About 9 percent of U.S. adults between ages 50 and 64 used marijuana in the the previous year, according to survey results. About 3 percent of people over 65 used the drug in that time period.
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Donald Y.F Chun, 87, of Aiea, passed away on September 1, 2018. Born in Honolulu, he was a retired superintendent for Hawaiian Electric Co. Inc. and a member of the Hawaii Air National Guard.
He is survived by his wife, Madge; sons, Randall (Luanne) and Michael; daughter, Renee (Sean) Bakey; grandchildren, Randall Jr., Daniel, Tyler, Kylie, Taylor and Haley.
Private services held. Arrangements provided by: Hosoi Garden Mortuary.
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy” is a popular worldwide hit song by musician Bobby McFerrin. Released in September 1988, it became the first a cappella song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, a position it held for two weeks. The song’s title is taken from a famous quotation by Meher Baba.
The “instruments” in the a cappella song are entirely overdubbed voice parts and other sounds made by McFerrin, using no instruments at all; McFerrin also sings with an affected accent. The comedic original music video for the song stars McFerrin, Robin Williams, and Bill Irwin, and is considerably shorter than the album version.
For those too young to remember, this became a MTV hit video and the song was heard on radio stations everywhere
Jarkarta, Indonesia – The Hawaii National Guard and the Tentara Nasional Indonesia (Indonesian Armed Forces) recently hosted a joint staff planning exercise known as Gema Bhakti. The name of the exercise is derived from an Indonesian phrase “Gerakan Bersama Bhakti” meaning move jointly together. The phrase is concatenated to Gema Bhakti.
Gema Bhakti is a joint multi-national staff exercise where military staff from the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and Indonesia work through a process known as the military decision making process. This process is a crucial step that involves the commander’s staff working with higher and lower commands to define the mission, its variables, the situation involved and how to measure mission effectiveness before a plan or order is produced.
This is the 6th iteration of Gema Bhakti which is also a culminating event for three state partnership program subject matter expert exchanges held between the Hawaii National Guard and Tentara Nasional Indonesia through out 2018.
Video about Gema Bhakti.from the Adjutant General’s Facebook page video by TSgt Andrew Lee Jackson
The Gema Bhakti Facebook page includes photographs of Hawaii Army and Air Guardmembers
Medicare.gov just posted the 2019 Medicare & You handbook. It is available in several forms.
Go to the Medicare & You page on the Medicare.gov website and select your choice of the following versions: PDF, Large Print PDF, eBook, Audio, Braille, Paper handbook.
The following link is to an article critical of an earlier draft of the 2019 Medicare & You handbook.
2019 “Medicare and You” Book Under Scrutiny for Inaccuracies
Aviator Yachtsman Wanderer, Padraic “Paddy” Evans has embarked his final journey. He was born in Seattle, Washington on February 28, 1922 and peacefully left his home in Kaunakakai on August 21, 2018.
He lived a remarkable life. Many will miss his numerous life stories and his kolohe sense of humor. He loved his family, friends, flying, sailing, reading the QB’s and his beloved dogs.
In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Molokai Humane Society, P.O. Box 1258 Kaunakakai, HI 96748 in his name.
He is survived by his children Dorcas Speer (Hank), Patrick Evans (Ester), Robert Evans (Elke), Maura Grey (Gregory), four grandchildren & two great grand children.
Please contact capt.paddy171@gmail.com for celebration information.
A Hui Hou Papa
