Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome,
and it's time now for our community connection right here on K one, the
one he drucked. Our friends from Eldercare all right in here. And I
say friends as in plural, because Angie Thompson, you brought in a special
guest today. Yes, and tom it's so good to see you. I'm
good, happy to me here on February one, twenty twenty four. I
can't believe it's February already, but yeah, I brought Frank Danel with me
this morning. He is our facilities manager at Eldercare. He has just celebrated
his nineteenth year. He was the main guy when we were building our building
in two thousand and six. He was the main guy. He saw the
walls go up, the studs go up, the electricity go in, and
he's still helping us keep that building beautiful. That had to be something to
watch that thing take shape, take form, grow up into what it is
today. That's a beautiful building. Yes, sir, I'll tell you what.
The first day I walked down into it, I was at all I
bet you were. And Mike Walker, which was mackinaw that was building it
took me under his wing and showed me every inch of it, and I
started working on the closeouts with him and getting a building finalized for the opening
in March, start moving people in, and we had some punch lists we
had to get done. And that was the best thing that helped me understanding
the operation of the building. And it's quite an operation. Not only is
it a beautiful building, not only is it a spacious building, it's a
highly functional building. Yes, sir, we have twenty three units of it's
called geo thermal. We got roughly seventy two wells in the parking lot drilled
out of three hundred foot level and that water circulates and six loops comes into
three feeder loops and that's our source of water, which is called ground source
water clothes loop, and that's what heats and cools our facility. So it's
pretty efficient. It probably saves us over sixty percent electric costs when it operates
at a at a maximum capacity. And our building is thirty three thousand square
feets. Yeah, actually it's a huge building. Thirty six thousand, thirty
six thousand square feet. Isn't that amazing? Wow? Yeah, And a
lot of people don't know that. We even have an upstairs where we keep
all of our medical equipment. You know, we loan medical equipment, like
small medical equipment like walkers and canes and wheelchairs, and so we store those
upstairs. So Frank and his crew every day, you know, they'll transport
porta potties or shower chairs, wheelchairs, walkers up and down those stairs to
store them upstairs for the next person who needs them. So, well,
it looks like you're ready for the Olympics, isn't it. Yeah, well
you took your mama's advice. Stay active, stay active. Yes, mom
taught me. Well, you know, I've seen her work all the way
past seventy and she lived a good old age and she always said, don't
sit around. Oh yeah, that's the worst thing for you. That's the
new smoking. I understand. I'm not trying to be funny, but that's
what they say. Just be bad for you. It's being sedentary. Yeah,
oh, my goodness, akes, well this is great now. I
understand that when we have to use the building for different purposes in different usages,
you're the guy they call and say, hey, Frank, how do
you think we got to do this? Yeah? My crew consists of two
ladies and two guys. I have one assistant that is in his eighties.
He's military, and we worked together on whatever Angie needs to set up these
events, and we've had some wonderful, wonderful events. I can't imagine how
she does it. It's just awesome. And so we tear down, we
set up and get it exactly why she wants. The video units, the
sound system is all brand new this year and it is just awesome, awesome,
Wow, that is incredible. You know, last year we had forty
four events in our building. I believe that forty four eleven hundred people came
through New Eyes. Yeah, I know, and there were some of those
events. You know. The dining room is our big room, and so
that's where Daybreak meets every day for lunch, and they have round tables and
it's really restaurant style dining for Daybreak. It's so beautiful. Well, when
we were doing the Alzheimer's in our community events, we needed that to be
theater style because we had eighty people signed up for each of those. So
Frank's team had to go in and tear down the Daybreak tables, store them
and then bring out all the big chairs and set them up theater styles for
another seminar, and then at the end of that they came in and tore
the theater style seats down and put up all the round tables and table cloths
and table decorations and chairs for daybreak, you know, to make it usable.
But you know that happened every day for several several weeks. My goodness
sakes, that'll keep it going. Speaking of Daybreak, that's one of the
many great programs that it's offered. Yeah, at elder tell us a little
bit about that. Well, I think Daybreak is one of my favorite favorite
programs. That was the flagship program that launched elder Care. There was a
need that we saw in the community for families who wanted a choice to nursing
home placement. They were maybe their loved one had been diagnosed with dementia or
Alzheimer's or some other debility hating illness, and they needed care, but there
was no place for them during the day. Nursing home placement was the only
place. Eldercare became a day health center for those aging adults who needed support
during the day. So we have right now in our building sixty percent of
that thirty six thousand square feet that Frank mentioned is used just for daybreak.
They have therapeutic programs, exercise, art, cognitive games that they play with
the participants to keep their brain strong. Frank mentioned the audio visual that we
now have. You know, they're playing movies, they're playing television programs that
these folks remember they wanted to listen to Elvis the other day that Sheila told
me, and so they were excited to hear all of the music that was
coming through the speakers. But that happens Monday through Friday now from seven thirty
to five thirty and includes transportation, a big fancy lunch, you know,
it's a five course lunch that we bring over from Green Country Village thanks to
Green Country Village. And then they have two healthy snacks. Healthy snack might
be biscuits in gravy or pancakes or something yummy, something yummy like that.
And Chef Pam puts all of that together. I mean, can you think
of a better place to calm during the day and socialize with people your own
age? You know, be stimulated, lets your brain be stimulated and your
body move and exercise. You just feel regenerated and rejuvenated every day that you
come. And it's daybreak, daybreak Adult Day Health Center Monday through Friday,
seven thirty to five thirty. My goodness, akes, you got it all
out there, doesn't you. Yeah. On top of that, you know
that you were talking about some of the things that you can do with the
different puzzles and things that kind of keep you going on and just having a
lot of fun. What it's it called the reflex Slogs reflection board, right,
Yeah, it's a big electronic light board and they use that in physical
therapy. You know. It's kind of like I call an arcade game.
You know, those boxes are squares or the game displays on the board in
front of you. It's about three feet wide led lights, you know,
and the objective is to touch the dots or touch the boxes and squares before
they hit the bottom of the bow, you know. Or it is like
an arcade game. But you know, even fun things like that keep our
brains, our brains active. Sure, yeah, that is so cool.
What a great resource we have. Now you're out there at twelve twenty three
swand drive right and nicely located. You got the wide opens right out there
for you, but still close to everything. But we do want to remind
people this is not an in house type of deal. It's not a resident
not residential no, No, this is coming as you are. Bring your
loved one out there for the day break if if that's what's necessary. And
you've got so many different things out there. Got the doctor's office there,
that's just really been expanded nicely, right, the CHC Health Clinic with doctor
Jerrel he's a gerontologist. He's been an internist in Bartlesville for over forty years.
You know, if you say doctor Jerrold's name, everybody and now Ronda
Line is there, you know. And so they're expanding and bringing in other
providers and services. Yeah, it's a great opportunity for aging adults. And
also let's not forget foundation therapy right, physical therapists there. Yeah, I
got to tell you there are so many people I know who have benefited so
much from just the little things they do. Yeah, and they I know
when you say, oh, I don't know if I want to go to
therapy, that sounds like it's a bother. It sounds like a paint.
Well guess what after a couple of visits it's like when are we going back?
Right? Well, that's that's a thing. Yeah. I've been there
nine times with all my surgeries, and Josh and Tracy and and Christie and
all of them have brought me back from surgeries and I've been up and running
the minute they start, and they do a fantastic job. I'm a I'm
a sole laver of it. And just look at me. I'm still go
up the steps every day going out and like a soldier, Yes, there
you go, what there we go? I always say, safe, bet
higher a vet. That's right, and he is and great deal. Hey,
thank you for your service, not only for Eldercare, but to our
country. Thank you. Alrighty, Now, what's the best way folks can
do to help keep our resource elder care going in our community. Well,
you know, we always need donations. Cash donations are always helpful. If
someone has a qualified charitable distribution that's coming up from their IRA and they would
like to share that with elder Care, we can use those resources. Or
a stock if they have a stock they would like to get to elder Care.
We can take stocks and cash gifts and that helps our programs, you
know, it helps programs like Daybreak with the food and transportation helps us hire
staff, qualified staff to work with the elderly. And so that's really the
best way that they can help us. Us with cash donations and they can
call me if they'd like to discuss a QCD or a stock transfer or a
cash gift, and my number is nine one eight three three six eighty five
hundred. That's the main number. Just ask for Angie. Oh wow,
great, that's how easy it is. Hey, thanks for being with us
here. Frank is nice meeting you, Thank you, Thank you. When
I grow up, I want to be you. Yeah, I'd like to
add to that. You know, over the years that I've been there,
we have looked at equipment that been around a two thousand dollars range and now
it's up to about six or eight thousand dollars. So it's very very important
to keep that equipment updated. And thanks to the donations of everybody in town
that keeps that operation going. You know, no matter how well we take
care of it. A lot of this equipment has lasted over ten twelve years.
Wow. But as it goes on, you know, clock's ticket on
that stuff, clocks ticking. So every dollar helps us tremendously alrighty, so,
folks, remember that when you're looking to make a charitable donation, make
sure you keep elder care in your in your thoughts. Now, elder care
is just you just turn forty forty. Right, So we're into forty one
here, and we're forty one era, we're spritting to fifty. We are
Oh, this is great. Been around a long time. Let's keep it
around a lot longer, folks. Thank you both for being here with us
today. Folks you've been listening to and watching our community connection one K one,
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