We'd also like to highlight the Aging in Place Fair, to be held at the Seattle Center on November 12. Find out about the many ways you can make life easier through accessibility improvements to your home.

Figuring out the new Medicare Prescription Benefit is enough to give you a headache by itself! But never fear: ADS Planner Linda Wells continues her ongoing series on Medicare Part D with a three-step plan for choosing the prescription drug plan that's right for you.

Also in this issue:

• Caregiver Corner: "Wish You Were Here" is a poignant and uplifting look at the challenges of serving as family caregiver to a person with dementia.
• Test Your Flu IQ. Flu season is coming. Do you know what you need to protect yourself?
• "America's National Parks" wordfind

For More Information...

Check out SeniorsDigest.org, our national companion website. The Seniors Digest Resource Center includes a "library" of quality links, and is a great place to begin your search for information about issues of interest to seniors and their families.

We hope you will refer to our electronic pages often to obtain advice, to learn of new and exciting services, and to offer us your constructive feedback.

Read Seniors Digest and tell us what you think. We are here to help.

Timmie Faghin, Chair
Seattle-King County Advisory Council
on Aging and Disability Services

* More about Coe Morgan

Coe Morgan is the outgoing Chair of the Citizens' Accessibility Advisory Committee (CAAC) for Sound Transit. The CAAC advises Sound Transit on accessibility issues for the elderly and disabled.

As a lifelong community activist who has served on dozens of non-profit and government advisory boards, including the Washington State Arts Commission, Coe says that his five years on CAAC have been among his most effective. "Sound Transit really backs the committee and values our input," he says. Among the improvements for which Coe and the CAAC have advocated are better bus signage at the airport, modifications to both the color and texture of ramps to improve their usability, and the installation of tile patterns in sidewalks to aid vision impaired riders in transferring between busses.

Coe has always preferred taking the bus over driving. After a knee replacement last summer, he was back riding the buses within two weeks much faster than it would have taken to get behind the wheel of a car! A voracious reader, he reports that he is able to pass the time focusing on books instead of traffic, and he never has to pay for parking. And walking to and from the bus stop helps him stay fit.