Okay, morning, morning, came moning. Welcome malchoelm WelCom. It's time
now for our community connection right here on K one, the one you trust
in the vision of leveling as we had with these years, Miss Angie Thompson
and James with Eldercare. How you doing. I'm doing well. It's good
to see you today. It's great to see you always. We've got some
great news about Eldercare we need to share today. We got a big birthday
bash coming up sorta yeah, sort of, but yeah, it's our fortieth
year. We're excited about all the great things we've been able to do in
our community for aging adults for the past forty years, and we are celebrating
in a big way on November eleventh. We're calling it our Giving Day and
our Celebration days. Wow, and talk about celebration. You've got quite a
lineup and you got it quite an advantage. Where are we holding this Well,
we're going to do the Tri County Tech Event Center. That's the one
space we believe we can put everyone in and everyone be comfortable and safe and
that kind of thing. But yeah, it'll be at the Trick County Event
Center and that's on Nowater Road, and it begins at nine point thirty on
November eleventh, and it starts with a fundraising breakfast. Will also honor our
veterans right off the bat that morning, because it is Veterans Day on November
eleventh, it is. We've got some special guests also, not only the
veterans, but we have some familiar names, yes, you know, for
those who have lived in Bartlesville for a number of years like I have.
I'm one of the natives in Bartlesville, you know, who still live here
and love our community. But you're going to recognize names like Mary lou Borg
and Betty Sammer. They're going to be with us. They were two of
our founders at Elder Care, so we're going to have them there. Everyone
will have a chance to meet them and show them some love for all of
their great work in nineteen eighty three. Cool. We have a guest speaker
too, yes, at the breakfast. It's Jim Bridenstein, and we were
so thrilled that he wanted to come and help us with this special event.
You know. The theme for our event is setting New Heights, Yeah,
you know, and we chose that theme because for forty years we've been helping
aging adults. But we're excited about what we're going to do next. And
in twenty twenty four we have enhanced programming and other things that the community will
really really be excited to learn about. In twenty twenty four, we're calling
it setting New Heights. And Jim Bridenstein, you know, is the former
NASA administrator New Heights. Yes, and of course he was a US Congressman
from Oklahoma. But he's going to be sharing some stories about his days as
a Navy pilot, you know, and his days at NASA. So it
will be a really fun day to hear him speak, to meet Mary lou
Borke, Betty Sammer, have photos taken with former board members who will be
their former employees who are coming to be part of the experience. But we
invite the entire community to come help us fundraise that morning and also celebrate Eldercare.
Oh this is great. Please you have an online component that's really cool,
right, you know, with a giving day? What giving day is?
An organization can choose a twenty four hour period where they will accept donations
online to benefit the work they do. And in our case, it's November
eleventh, so you know, not everybody likes the online giving experience, and
they can continue to give that day, either at the breakfast or if they'd
like to mail us a check or drop a donation by Eldercare they share can,
but I'll be glad to see it. Yeah. The online component will
also be available for those who'd like to give online, and the space for
giving online will be found on our Facebook page and on our website. I
understand we have some generous sponsors already for this, Oh gosh, you know,
yeah, absolutely, you know, you can't do any fundraising event without
amazing sponsors, and we have amazing sponsors this year for our Giving Day.
Our signature sponsors are Conico, Phillips and the Richardson Foundation. We also want
to give a shout out to Mary Lou Bork and Karen Waddell, who are
our Mock five sponsors. Betty Caine and Truity Credit Union are above the cloud
sponsors, Mary and John Ford and the ks Adams Foundation are gliders, and
Steve and Tanna Grogan and Jerry and Beth Maddox are skippers, along with Meredith
and Bob Frasier. And of course we can't do it without our media sponsor
KWN, Tri County Tech, the Dungeess Family of Autos, and our best
Wealth Management. Just amazing group of organizations and individuals. I love how our
community comes together for these things. It is really wonderful. Now. Elder
care we've been around for forty years. Yes, but we need to remind
folks that this is not a residential care facility. No. In fact,
it's quite the opposite. We want you to have fun as best you can
at home. At home, you know, it's about aging in place,
and everyone wants independence as we age. You know, we want to be
able to drive our car, go to church, and go to these community
events if we want to. But sometimes we do need a little extra help
in our home, you know, and that's what our in home program is
about. We also have adult day Health for individuals who'd like to have structured
and organized activities therapeutic art and exercise. They can come to our daybreak program
Monday through Friday, seven thirty to five thirty. And of course we also
have a health clinic for adults of all ages with doctor Brad Jerrell who's a
Jerry and titian here in Bartlesville, and also our foundation therapy specialists. They
treat adults of all ages. Wow, we that's a quite a big component.
We got there, Yes, indeed, and you're out there at twelve
twenty three Swan Drive, beautiful yard, beautiful facility. But the fundraiser is
going to help make sure that we're around for another forty years to can care
the needs of the seniors who wish to age in place. You know,
that's right, Tom, and folks can purchase tickets online at our website which
is about eldercare dot org, Forward Slash Breakfast. They can purchase our commenity
t shirt, our tag holders, or tickets to the event, or they
can call us at nine one eight three three six eighty five hundred. That
is great. You know, we were talking a little bit about all the
different amenuities we have going on out there. I want to go kind of
to the foundation folks, because they're wonderful. You want to talk about being
able to age in place. Say you're not moving as well as you used
to, or perhaps you had an accident, or it's something that's giving you
a trouble where maybe you can't move your feet or your hands the way you
used to. But the folks at the Foundation Therapy right there at Eldercare,
they work miracles every day, little ones. But yeah, you know they
do. And I think that that is a hidden jew will at elder Care.
Folks don't realize. We have four doctors of physical therapy too, physical
therapists, assistance and a physical therapist including certified hand specialist as our occupational therapist
and a speech language therapist. So we're an outpatient facility and we're available to
all adults, whether you're wanting to recover, maybe get back on track.
You've had surgery, maybe you've had a stroke or some kind of cognitive incident
and you need a little help getting back on track. That's what Foundation Therapy
specialists can help you do. Oh indeed, and they're very fun. Yes,
you know, you're not looking at somebody who's going to come in there
with you know, kind of sober pasion. Ok, here we go.
You know, they engage and the folks, the patientsing, they engage right
back. It's really a fun kind of element. You got there well.
And I think our educational component, our physical therapists are so highly trained and
specialized. I'll tell a quick story someone told me that they were working with
Josh Lynn Bloom, he's our director of therapy, a nice guy. Yeah.
Her husband had Parkinson's and Josh was working with him on one on one
therapy, which is our specialty one on one therapy. Working with him.
He was struggling one day and Josh just simply asked, well, is there
some activity that you really love to do that you are not able to do
anymore? And he said, well, I really love to dance and I
can't dance anymore. So we pulled the wife over and he said, well,
let's let's dance right now. And he was able to integrate his therapy
session with dancing because that's what this individual loved to do, you know.
But that's the kind of out of the box thinking our therapists do to engage
people, to get them back on track, get them mobile. You know.
That's a pretty clever thinking. Yeah, and it's great for the mind
too, in the heart, yes, ah, and the soul. That
is really something else, you see, folks, is why we invest in
Eldercare, and that's why we have the big forty you bet coming up.
Let's give folks in case they just caught the little piece of it. It's
coming up on November eleven. November eleventh, Tri County Tech begins at nine
thirty with a breakfast. The guest speaker is Jim Bridenstein. Will have individuals
important to Eldercare from our past. The cost is fifty dollars per person.
They can buy tickets online at about eldercare dot org forwards last breakfast or call
us at nine one, eight, three, three six eighty five hundred great
anything else we may have missed, well not for now. I know we'll
be back talking. Oh yes we will, because we do that about every
three or four weeks. We get together and we catch up on all the
activities that are coming up with Eldercare. But this is the big one.
Folks will make plans. It's already marked on your calendar. Veterans Veterans Day.
Yeah, Eldercare Solute the bed Sea. We will right check circle it
with a big heart. Lets go, Angie. Thank you very much for
being with us. Tom all right, folks, you've been listening to our
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