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There we go passes. Good morning, good morning, good morning, and

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welcome, welcome, welcome. It's
time now for our community connection right here

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on K one, the one you
trust, and we have our friends here

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from Elder Carot or should I say
Foundation Therapy. How are we doing here?

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Good morning, Nice to be here
Josh, Abby, Great to have

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you both in here today. Starting
off the new year, limpur and speaking.

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Well, I guess that's exactly everyone's
getting ready with their new year's resolutions

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and their new year's goals, and
so we wanted to chat a little bit

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about some really easy, simple ways, simple goals, habits to do this

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to have this year that might prevent
you from meeting therapy. Well, well,

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okay, I mean it's not like
you're against books coming by to visit

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yet. You just want to make
sure that they can kind of do some

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of this on their own right.
But even if even if you've come to

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therapy, what we try to do
on your exercise program after is limit the

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barriers to you accomplishing your goals at
home. So that's kind of like what

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we want to talk about today,
easy ways to take next steps. Well,

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start off, how well we do
this for us for physical therapy.

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What we often see people for is
balance. So easy, very easy ways

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that you can work on your balance
at home are just to find an inside

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corner of a cabinet or like in
your kitchen or in a room and stand

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with your feet close together and your
arms crush your chest and try to just

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stand as long as you can without
touching the wall. So if you can

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do that for up to thirty seconds, then the next progression is to close

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your eyes and it kind of changes
the ball game a little bit. Oh

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boy does it? I mean yeah, I've been there. It's play that

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with age. That does happen,
Absolutely happens. People don't realize that they

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control their balance with their eyes,
their ears, and their ankles and hips.

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So we often challenge people by taking
their vision away and that really challenges

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other systems and so you can really
help yourself in your balance just doing very

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simple things like that. Well okay, well there's something I'm going I could

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cry and I'll hunt the kids around
make sure nothing happens. What's dad doing

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over there? You just being dad? I mean what you got for folks?

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Well, honestly, my number one
thing, especially with a new year,

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is to have routine. And this
is particularly important I've found post retirement.

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Right after retirement, you need to
still have routines. You need to

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have daily routines, weekly routines.
You need to have some kind of structure

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to your day to where you feel
like you have a purpose, where you're

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being productive with your time, where
you're staying engaged, and you're still enjoying

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life with people, and so that
you're not getting sucked into this I'm gonna

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sit on the couch and watch TV
all day. Maybe it starts with just

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having the TV on in the background
and then eventually you've watched TV for five

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hours that day, things like that. But we want to keep your brain

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engaged, we want to keep it
stimulated, we want to keep it sharp,

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and part of doing that is having
a bit of structure to your day.

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It doesn't have to be rigid,
but just some kind of rhythm routine

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that you do each day each week
to have some of those healthier habits and

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activities incorporated into your time. My
brother just recently retired and he thought that

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was gonna be the greatest thing.
I check in with him every now and

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then, how's it going, how's
it going, how's it going. Now

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it's been almost a year, and
he says, it seems to me that

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every day on the calendar is Saturday
until I tell it differently. That's exactly

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right, and it is you have
to tell it differently. And he's getting

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to that point where it's like,
Okay, this is becoming a blurer.

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So put that recommendation down. Plus
we'll stand eve in the corner just to

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see what he does. That correlates
her setting routine and not winding up on

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the couch for five hours a day
absolutely correlates with us. Also, it

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sure do. You'll just you'll conform
to the ship of your couch eventually and

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it'll be harder to get up and
around and get moving. So another thing

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that we tell people to do often
is just to sit to stands from a

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standard chair, so you don't have
to go to a gym and do squats

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or do anything. Just a functional
strengthening program to sit and stand from a

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chair. You can add weights,
like holding weights up to your chest,

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but it doesn't really need a gym
membership to accomplish a lot of things that

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you want to accomplish in retirement or
otherwise. We're talking with Josh and Abby

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there with the Foundation therapy which is
out at Eldercare. Now, my doctor

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of all people told me this a
couple of years ago. That is easy

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as getting up out of your chair
makes all the difference in the world,

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because that's going to be the difference
in time whether or not you can live

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independently or you're going to have to
have assistant care and pay for it.

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And she said, just make sure
that if you do nothing else, get

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up, get down, get out, get down, several times day in

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order to make sure that that works
for as long as it can. And

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the chair doesn't really change high since
you don't get stronger or you get weaker.

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Yeah, so we got to stay
strong. That's exactly right. And

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we see that these things happen in
cycles. Right, So let's say you

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start having trouble getting out of your
chair, So now you're not going to

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get out of it as often.
You're going to stay sitting down, So

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you're going to stay in front of
that TV longer. You're not going to

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be as social, you're not going
to go out with your friends because it's

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so hard for you to move around. And now your brain is less engaged

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and then maybe you start feeling a
little bit just kind of down and depressed,

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and so you continue to not do
the healthy things, and it's just

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these negative cycles. But what we
want to do is we want to reverse

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that in the positive cycles. We
want healthy brain engagement so that we have

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those positive endorphins going on which makes
us want to get out of our chair

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to do things, makes us want
to get up and go do a hobby

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and activity. This is supposed to
be fun. It's not supposed to be

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work. You don't have to,
you know, go back to school,

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you don't have to you don't have
to engage some rigorous study program or anything

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like that, where like Josh was
saying, a rigorous exercise program. It's

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supposed to be enjoyable. Do hobbies, do fund social activities, hang out

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with your family, hang out with
your friends. Just be engaged and have

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positive cycles of health instead of negative
cycles of health. Very good, now,

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Josh. You know, when you
get up and move around a little

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bit, you feel a whole lot
better. You're oxygenating your body a lot

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more absolutely, I mean better for
your lungs, your muscles, everything.

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So and honestly it's you, I
mean, have you ever regretted going to

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a gym. No, you never
regret getting up and going. Sometimes it

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just takes the intention. You just
have to be intentional about what you're doing.

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So I've had that problem just getting
in the car, but once up

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there at the gym, about golly, I feel great. Yes. Yes.

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And the other thing that helps you
actually get up and go is back

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to that idea of routine and habit. So if you're trying to incorporate some

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kind of goal or new habit into
your year, having it in isolation is

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one of the most surefire ways of
not accomplishing that this year. Incorporating it

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into a routine, having it scheduled, having it be a regular part,

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something that is intentionally done at a
specific time during the day or at a

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specific day during the week, you
are much much much more likely to actually

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stick to it and get up and
go because that's just what you do at

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that time, That's just what you
do on those days. But the pattern,

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I mean, you can establish a
pattern in a habit and it doesn't

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have to be going full steam ahead, you know, doing one hundred repetitions

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of something. It's just making the
time, cutting the time out and just

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doing a few and then working your
way out. But you are cutting that

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time out for this is what I'm
accomplishing right now. This is my new

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routine. You just made a whole
lot of guys who played sports feel a

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lot better because when they think about
going to the gym, it's like,

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oh gosh, that's like work,
because you know, they're thinking that they

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have to do with they did when
they were playing football or baseball, and

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it's like, it's nothing like that. It's a it's it's going to the

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gym and getting the fun part in
and not necessarily the oh gosh, I'm

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gonna feel it's in the morning.
You know, we don't. You don't

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need to go to the gym and
make yourself sore every time so you can't

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walk the next day. It's not
like you're training to be a marine,

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right, What are your goals?
Right? You're gold to be happy and

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healthy and that's that's right, And
so that's that's part of the intention of

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our of what we're talking about is
intentionally working toward your goals and not your

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goals as a high school baseball player. Yeah, don't worry, we won't

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turn it into a Navy seal unless
you ask yeah to cost you a little,

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No, won't abby what you got
to Oh. I think that that

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really, that really encapsulates so much
of what we see. You know,

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some of what we see it's not
preventable. It doesn't matter how healthy of

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a person you are, It doesn't
matter how many healthy habits you had.

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Sometimes things just happen. You get
a diagnose this, you're in a car

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accident, you have some kind of
injury, whatever, it was out of

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your control. But if we could
reduce the number of people that came to

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see us from things that would have
been preventable, and maybe it would have

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been preventable with just a few minor
tweaks to those habits and routines within the

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last couple of years, then I
think that that would make such a difference

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in people's lives. Just a few
minor things here and there can make a

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really big difference down the road,
and it can prevent much, much bigger

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issues later on. And Josha Foundation
therapy, even if you have a setback

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like a like an injury or something
like that, you might not get back

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to one hundred percent, but by
golly, you're going to get to the

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best you could possibly ride. I
mean our goal, our goal there is

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to work with the patient develop what
their goals are. So what are your

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goals to get back to? And
that's what we worked forward. So I

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mean it's that's yeah, So be
realistic, Be realistic. And that's the

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other thing. Yeah, you're your
body isn't going to function like it did

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when you were twenty. Your brain
isn't going to function like it did when

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you were twenty. Yes, you're
going to occasionally have some word finding issues.

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You're going to occasionally forget some details
of the thing that happened last week,

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and all of that is expected and
typical. And we can't necessarily waive

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you know, magic ones in therapy
to make those things go away. Would

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you can allow us to try to
live with it the best we can exactly,

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you can still have a completely fulfilling
and satisfactory life, high quality of

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life, even as you age and
as you have just those typical aging progressions

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in your body and in your mind. You two realized just how hopeful you

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made people. Well, it helped
it. Yeah, Yeah, I mean

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there's a lot of folks that sometimes
they just feel like, well, I'm

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stuck in this routine and it's never
going to change. And that's not true.

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We have the research. We know
that that's not true. You can

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continue to live a happy and healthy
life no matter how old you get.

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If you feel like if you do
feel like you need some help, and

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this does seem like a barrier on
setting some goals for yourself, We're more

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than happy to help you with that. Very good folks, they're nice,

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they're good people. You know,
you come out and visit, set up

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an appointment, and just walking around
it isn't going to cost you a dime.

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Now, I mean introduce you.
There's some really pretty cool people in

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a variety of different capacities out there
at Eldercare at twelve twenty three Swan Drive,

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and you know, that's kind of
a happening place for folks who are

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aging in place. And this is
what we want you to do. We

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want to get this out of anybody's
mindset that Eldercare is some kind of assistant

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living place. It's not. We
want you to live independently and happily as

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long as you possibly can, and
with the help of Josh and Abbey and

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everyone else out there, it's just
a complete resource center. The whole mission

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of Eldercare is to keep people happy, healthy, living, independent lives in

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place. There you go. You
can be a stubborn old man like me

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and stay at home the courtesy of
these great friends. But not on the

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couch for five hours. Not on
the couch for five hours, you get

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a bedstore. It's not fine.
I want to thank you for coming in.

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First of all, how do we
get a hold of you? You

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can always call our office at nine
seven sixty six zero three nine one,

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and you're open for business of what
five days a week? Yes, our

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clinic is open five days a week, five days a week. Wow.

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Cool. And it's at about eldercare
dot org. And you'll find it there

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on one of the resource tabs that
they can tell you a little bit about

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it. If you're pretty handy with
a computer, absolutely alrighty. By the

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way, hats off to your web
person because you've made that a pretty easy

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journey. It is. The website
has taken uh has had a lot of

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changes in the last years. Yes, it has for the better for the

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easement of the upper Thank you both
for being here with us on care