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Good buddy, good Bundy, good
morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome,

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and it is time now for our
community connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust. We have
Angie Thompson in here with us from Eldercare,

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and a very good morning to you, young lady. I mean,

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happy holidays, Tom. We're just
about there, just a few days from

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Christmas, and yeah, I'm glad
to be here. You know something that

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Eldercare has recently celebrated forty years in
our community and actually serving all of northeast

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Oklahoma. But there are a lot
of things that we learned about Eldercare,

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and there are a lot of things
that we need to learn about Eldercare,

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because my goodness sinks. We were
just talking in the green room, and

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folks, we really don't have a
green room. We just kind of pretended

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to television. You got next thing, you know, we got em and

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m's and everything going on back there
anyway. But we were talking about some

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of the things that have been going
on for quite a while, and I

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thought I knew most every thing about
the programs that were available through Eldercare,

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And boy was I'm mis mistaken.
We got more than you know, and

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we'll bring our staff back in the
next few weeks to you know, really

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share more about these in detail.
But I think there's you know, programs

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like the Power Moves, which is
the Parkinson Wellness Recovery program. We've been

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holding that at Eldercare for several years. They meet twice a week Mondays and

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Wednesdays at noon, and it's for
individuals who've been diagnosed with Parkinson's at any

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stage of that disease. And the
whole goal is to meet, to socialize,

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to be a support system for each
other and those you know who may

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be living at home with someone who
has Parkinson's. But the movements, the

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exercise exercise movements are intended to keep
the body and brain engaged their large their

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life. What we call functional movements, you know, things you're going to

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use every day to pick something up
off the floor, to be able to

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get up and down out of a
chair, to reach something off of a

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shelf, you know, just to
make normal movements. And sometimes what happens

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with the disease is it causes our
bodies to shrink, you know, from

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how we connect to our limbs to
how we speak. So everything about the

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Parkinson wellness recovery program is exercise focused
and it keeps the movements large and repetitive,

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just to keep the body and muscles
strong and engaged with the brain.

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So when your brain says move here, your body does what your brain asks

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it to do. So, yeah, that's on Mondays and Wednesdays, and

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it's called the Parkinson's Wellness Recovery We
call it Power Moves for it short.

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But it's a national program and we
at Eldercare are the site for the Bartlesville

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and regional area. For those who
would like to participate, they just need

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to call Foundation Therapy Specialists at seven
six six three nine one, talk to

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Heather and you know, start seeing
their best life on Mondays and Wednesdays at

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noon right there at Eldercare. Wow, we you know, you just gave

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a lot of hope to some people
who didn't think that they had much.

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You get that diagnosis and you know
you don't know what to do, you

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don't know where to turn, and
yeah, you start thinking that, well,

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you know, my options are slim
to none, and slim just left

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town. And now this just gave
a whole lot of hope to a whole

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lot of people. I understand that
during the course of the progression of the

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disease of Parkinson's, it sometimes the
voice actually starts to get lighter and less

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less projects less. Yeah, exactly. And you know, you know Abby

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Peterman, she's been a part of
Yeah, elder Care for a while,

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and she's appeared with us here on
community connections. So smart got little ones

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now, yeah she does. I
mean she's doing so many things in the

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community. But she is our speech
language pathologists there at Elder Care, so

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bright and talented, and she works
with the loud crowd, and that again

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is another national chain, and it
helps individuals who may have been diagnosed with

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Parkinson's to keep their voices stronger.
You know, a lot of that is

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tied to you know, breath and
development, the brain activity, moving the

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you know, telling the voice to
speak in a certain way or the diaphragm

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and the breath to move in a
certain way. So those exercises also help

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individuals who may be experiencing that shrinking
feeling, you know that withdrawing feeling.

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She gives you exercises to boost your
speech, and you know that just increases

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your confidence. You know, Tom
when you think about exercise and even exercising

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your voice and all of the mechanisms
that are involved in speaking or singing.

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You know, just developing that gives
you a great deal of confidence that,

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man, I can live my best
life I can interact socially with people.

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Again. You know, it's just
an eye opening and engaging opportunity for people.

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We don't want people to shrink back. We want them to live their

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best life for you know, every
stage of their life. I can't imagine

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not being loud. Oh yeah,
it's good to know. It's good to

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know that. So if you lose
that skill time, you know where to

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go for future reference. But you
know, and so many different things have

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happened over this past year, and
when you put it all together, it's

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kind of like the you know,
the Greatest Hits photo while Yeah, because

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like wow we did that. Wow
we had a forty year anniversary, and

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we we had so many people we
couldn't put any more in the room.

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Right, that's the way it happens. Yeah, you know, when you

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look back, and it's always good, I think to kind of take stock

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of where you are and what you've
accomplished over a certain period of time.

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It really helps fuel you for the
next twelve months, and thankfully that's what

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we've been doing over the last few
weeks is taking a look at twenty twenty

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three because that was our anniversary year. You know, we wanted to celebrate.

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We held extra events in our building
just to introduce more people to the

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services at Eldercare. We had Miss
Oklahoma in March. We had Cynthia Simmons

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who was a featured artist at south
By Southwest. She came in and was

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our entertainment for our Valentine party.
We held a series of Alzheimer's in our

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community events, really well panels,
you know, we had a full house

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every time. I think we held
three or four of those panel discussions and

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the room was full every time.
And then we held the Downsizing after Decades

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series and that was another popular series, in full room every time, and

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those were the two series that people
afterwards said, please do this again.

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So it was really terrific to be
able to put that out for the community.

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But we had over one thousand,
almost eleven hundred individuals come to our

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events at elder Care. And I'm
including in that our fortieth celebration that we

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held offside at Trick County Tech event
center. But think of that number.

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Sometimes I'm not talking about programs,
you know, not talking about daybreak or

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physical therapy people, our community engagement
programs from January, and I'm including in

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that the numbers for our memory screening
event that's coming up next Thursday. But

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I heard good things about that.
Yeah, I mean, I mean after

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we ran that story and thank you
for doing that, the event filled up

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completely, you know, and I'm
sure they'll want to come back because that

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is significant. But you know,
you think about the relationships that we were

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able to form, not just with
those individuals who came and sat in the

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seats, but people like doctor Land. You know, she came in November.

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She has the Central States Research Clinic
in Tulsa. She came in November

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to hold a seminar on progressive treatments
for Alzheimer's and dementia, and she wanted

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a tour, so we gave her
a tour of our building. You know.

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One of the first things she said
when she turned to her assistant was

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said, let's see if we can
use Elder Care as a screening site.

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And as it happened, you know, we were able to put that together

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in just a matter of weeks.
She was so impressed with our staff and

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our facility and the need. You
know, the people in her seminar that

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day asked very intelligent questions about the
disease and treatment. She was so impressed

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with that entire experience that she wanted
to come back and use Elder Care as

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the screening site. So I know
they will be back in future months.

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They just there was just too much
interest for them to not want to come

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back. You know, we're hard
to ignore. We are, you know,

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leading edge kind of treatments for Alzheimer's
and dementia. But you think about

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the relationships that we were able to
form over twenty twenty three. We were

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able to re engage with individuals from
our past who were part of our legacy,

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you know, like Mary Lou Bork, Betty Sammer. You know,

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think of Roger Box, Joe Anne
Gallery, Betty Kine, Elizabeth Thrash,

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individuals who were part of our early
early early days. Bob Bogue, our

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very first board president, came to
our fortieth celebration just to be able to

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re engage with people so they could
see how forty years later, the vision

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and the mission is still there.
You know, our programs are active and

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we're meeting the need in the community. We're a regional resource center on all

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things aging in place. Daybreak Adult
Day Health our flagship program. You know,

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we're still going strong and I encourage
people. You know, if you're

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caring for a loved one at home
during the holiday, this is the more

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perfect time to let your loved one
come and enjoy socialization, therapeutic art,

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to be with peers who may be
experiencing the same things they are. Give

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them an opportunity to be with people
that they can engage with while you also

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enjoy you know, maybe decorating your
tree, or having lunch with friends,

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or playing golf with someone. But
this is a time of the year for

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joy and elder care. Daybreak Adult
Day Health Center is one of the opportunities

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that you can take advantage of for
a little bit of joy in the month

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of December. One thing, kids, you got to put yourself in your

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parents' place. Yes, okay,
you know how you feel. Guess what

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your adult parents feel the same thing
you do. They would like to have

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relationships, they would like to have
friendships, They would like to be around

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other people. They don't want to
be sitting at home just being a lump

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on the couch. They want to
be active, they really do, just

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like you do. So you know, there's no mystery here. You know,

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you and your parents, your loved
ones who are aging in place right

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now, you have the same thoughts, the same the same feelings, you

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know. So let's let's kind of
access that nexus which is taken out to

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elder care and just see what's available. And this daybreak is really quite the

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eye opener for a lot of people, not just for the adult, the

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season citizen who's going to benefit from
it. You're going to benefit from it

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too, the family, everyone does, you know. And I know we're

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running out of time, but I
just got to I just got to say,

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we've got great activities in daybreak in
the month of December. We have

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an elementary school choir coming to sing
and the Bartlesfield Symphony Orchestra brass quintette is

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going to come play Christmas carols for
daybreak. I met a lady last week

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who her mother was visiting her and
she brought her mom for the day.

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Both of them just had expressions of
joy on their face. You know,

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the mom was going to be able
to participate in therapeutic art, exercise,

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have a five course lunch, you
know, and be with yeah, you

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know, be with friends who are
her age and her daughter was it was

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a release. I could just see
the joy on her face. I'm giving

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my mom something that's going to make
her happy today. You know. That's

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that's really what we want families to
experience. And that's what elder care is

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about. It's about aging in place. It's not reidential facility, folks.

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So if you're new to the community
and you're hearing about Eldercare for the first

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time, it is not a residential
community at all. Nothing can be further

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from the truth. This is to
help you age in place with dignity and

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independent right Monday through Friday. Daybreak
offers transportation. They're available seven thirty to

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five thirty. But they can see
all of our fabulous programs on our website

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about eldercare dot org and it's just
all one word about eldercare dot org.

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Or they can call us nine one, eight, three three six eighty five

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hundred. And that's the coolest clubhouse
in town. It is. I love

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that twelve twenty one drive. You
can't miss it. Thank you very much.

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Angie for being with us. Thank
you. We wish everyone a happy

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holiday and we'll see you in twenty
twenty four. All right, that's great.

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We got a lot more to celeb