Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome
in his time now for our community connection on our nation's birthday, and with
Eldercare, we have our good friend Angie Thompson with is how are you today
in the happy America's birth Independence Day? Right? Hey? Yeah, so
happy to be here. I got my hot dogs and hamburgers already on the
grill. So when I get out of here, I'm going to run home
and have some relation all that good stuff. Relation is a good time.
You know something you said, independence in Independence Day are holiday. But independence
is a key word when we talk about Eldercare because what Eldercare is here for,
it's it's not a residential service right at all. You're not living there.
It's to help you live independently, keep your independence as long as you
can. You know it, And that's true, and that's our goal.
You know, everything we do is to help help aging adults remain happy,
healthy and independent for as long as possible. And when you think about it,
even though you and I may be in our sixties, we still need
a little bit of help. And that's what elder care is all about.
It is it's a little bit of help, but to help from a friend
is really what it is. Because everyone connected with elder care is just so
friendly and we got that common goal, and that's to help you be the
best you you can be and help you agent play as long as you can.
That's right. We want everyone to experience life to the fullest, right
to the very last minute. Well, you know something, you got a
lot going on there, and it's all about being fifty plus and really kind
of celebrating it too at the same time. You know, And in the
rest of the year, we've got some really great seminars and events planned that
I think people of all ages are going to find really helpful and important.
Valerie Unru some of you may remember Valerie. She's a fine artist. She
was here in Bartlesville for a number of years. Recently moved to Collinsville to
open her own art studio. But she's coming back to hold a pain class
for any adults who are interested. It's a six week class. It's two
hundred and fifty dollars and sign up is going on now. It begins July
seventeenth, will end on August twenty first. It's from ten to noon.
You know, every Wednesday, you can come and create a landscape in oils
and have one of the very finest artists in our region teach you how to
do it. My goodness sakes, and just for two hundred and fifty dollars,
you're getting basically a college course in this and you're going to have a
lot of fun. You Plus you're going to run into people you haven't seen
in a while and maybe even new friends you know, And this is a
great opportunity to bring someone you know if maybe you're you know, your book
club, or maybe you like to do those fine art paintings. There may
be several of folks who would want to come and be a little team,
could be mother and daughter, mother and daughter in law, a husband and
wife team. But it's six weeks of really great education from Valerie. Wow,
that's great. Other things that popping up on the calendar all over the
place goes. You know, we're at the beginning of a brand new monthly
boom it is. You know, I encourage everyone to get online and look
at our calendar. It's about eldercare dot org forward slash events to see what's
happening for the rest of the year. You know, it would take me
a week I think to go through everything, but I'm just going to hit
the highlights of what's coming up. In July, we have a fraud seminar
with Trisha Richards from our Vest Wealth Management and she's going to be talking about
how to stay safe and secure and keep your account safe. You don't have
to be an our Vest member to come to that. It can hits open
to anyone in the community who would like to avoid fraud. That's on July
seventeenth to three. And then on the thirty first, I'm really excited that
Amanda French will be there. She's going to talk tech and we're calling it
Tech Talk with Amanda. She says, bring your questions, bring your laptops,
your tablets, iPhones, and you know, if you don't know how
to use those things, that will be the format for the day. Just
let her help you and everyone else in the room. That's at three on
July thirty first. And actually those things kind of go together, you know
a little bit. You know, we like to think that we're back in
a certain time in our life where you can trust somebody. That broad thing
speaks volumes. You're gonna be surprised how many trixtures. They are out out
there, and of course with the tech, okay, a lot of us
are okay with the cell phone, you know how to make a call,
we can do a text, we can sometimes take good pictures of our grandkids.
There's so much more that's going on there. And of course with the
laptop computer, a lot of things are going that way, your health records,
things like that that you need to kind of be on top of.
So if you've got a little bit of tech going on, this is a
way to get into the water. You can wade in knee high, then
may be waist deep. We're not gonna throw you in the deep end.
We're just gonna get you started here. Yeah, you know. And the
good news is it's just for an hour. It's from three to four.
Were on the thirty first, that last Wednesday of the month. And Amanda
is so much fun. She's a young, vibrant individual with an IT background.
She works for a major corporation here in Bartlesville. But she said,
have everyone bring their you know there, let's try to stump the instructor questions
and you know, bring it to her and let her help you that day.
I'm excited to bring her in. Oh, that's going to be great.
You know, there's going to be some folks really working on something.
They will what else got going on? Well, listen, last year we
did the downsizing after Decades. Yeah, it was one hundred and eighty nine
people came through for that. We're going to hold it again this year.
It'll be on two different dates, August eighth and August fourteenth. The first
panel will include Linda and Wayne Vineyard and Robin Fullerton. Now you know,
Linda and Wayne are the proprietors of the Minutemen Auctions. So they're going to
talk about how to create estate sales and the things you need to think about.
And then Robin on that same day, is going to talk about the
process of letting go. You know, she's a family counselor, she's professional
licensed family counselor, and people had those questions, how do I know how
to have the talk with my mom that I really don't want those lace doilies,
even though she thinks I love them, you know, but how do
you let go of things? So that first panel will be on August eighth
from three to four thirty, and then the second one is August fourteenth at
three, and it will include a checklist. You'll have folks there on the
panel who are professionals that help you dispose of hazardous materials. Maybe your laptops.
You don't know what to do with them, but you want to get
rid of them. Trust Officer Brandy Roblez from Arvestworth Management. We'll talk about
some of the key things you need to know as you downsize. Kathy Cowen,
who's a local real ator and she's so much fun. She'll talk about
what you need as a homeowner to downsize. So it'll be a really great
panel. That's on the August fort August fourteenth. For that second panel in
August eighth, both begin at three. Oh my goodness, this is great.
Now, do we need to call in and get reservations in on that
or do you RSVP to make sure we got room? You can and our
phone number is nine one eight three three six eighty five hundred, or if
you want to find the sign up link, just look at our website calendar
about eldercare dot org forward slash events. Now, I don't want to get
too far ahead, but I understand that we have another one of our senior
cannects coming up in August. August twenty second. Andy Taylor is going to
be the featured speaker. And Andy is a part of the Chronicle and Independence.
He's a storyteller. He's going to present some really fun and interesting stories
about VIPs from the Kansas and Oakland and Washington County regions. So he was
here last October and talked about Nip van Winkle. He was really entertaining,
and he will be there on August twenty second. It begins at five point
thirty and the cost is thirteen dollars and fifty cents. I will tell you
that's the best value for a dinner intershell. That's right now. You can
find anywhere. I dare you to find anything that's going to bring you that
kind of value for that. So a few dollars and it's a great way
to connect with other people. Get a table of your friends and maybe just
come by yourself or with someone else and we'll pair you up. There's plenty
of a room there, right, And I want to emphasize that all of
our events are open to adults of all ages. All ages, So you
know, if you're in your thirties and this sounds interesting to you, we
want you to come. You're in your eighties and it sounds interesting. We
want you to come. Well, there you go. Now, speaking of
availability, we have a Foundation Therapy. How's that going? You know,
they serve about eight hundred individuals each month. They have five yeah, five
doctors of physical therapy, physical therapist assistance, and a physical therapist. Yeah,
occupational therapist Susan Clifton can help you with your occupational therapy needs. And
of course Abby is our speech and language pathologist and she can help you if
you need help there. And they're going to be at the next community connections
with you, so yeah, all right, that'd be great. And of
course we've got the clinics there and a lot of people think, well,
you have to you know, have to be some sort of a age or
some sort of a prerequisite to come in there, but you don't really know.
I mean, they are treating children and adults. Doctor Gretchen McGee is
now on staff. She has a discipline in obg yn and family practice.
She will treat families. And of course doctor Jerald is still there. It
will always be there. He's our geryontologist. He's worked with seniors for many
years and he's continuing to see seniors there. But doctor Gretchen McGee is with
the CHC clinic now it's right there inside elder Care and she treats family and
then also Ronda Lyne, who's a physician's assistant, she also treats patients there.
Wow, this is great. The more we ask questions, the more
we know things about Eldercare, and it's nothing what you might think. We
need to hear the name of Eldercare. So we want to make sure that
everybody knows what's going on. Forty years and going strong and probably for another
you know, forty to fifty more. Thanks I can tell. But my
goodness sake, where can we find you? In case books want to just
drop by and take a visit, see what's going on. Listen, they
can call us at nine one eight three three six eighty five hundred, and
I'll mention we have an open house that's coming up on the first Monday of
every month, so come and see us on August fifth. But Caul,
if you want to come and learn more about Eldercare, that's nine one eight
three three six eighty five hundred, or you can visit our website. I
like to say about elder care. It's all one word. What do you
want to know about elder care? About elder care dot org. Thank you
very much, Angie,