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Good funny coome Morney, Good morning
and welcome, welcome, welcome me.

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He is that time now for our
community connection right here on K one,

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the one that you stand, we
are rethinking with our friends from Elder Care.

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First of all, we have Christina
bishop A doing get title. Yeah,

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thank good, and we would call
your beerless leader and I'm not sure

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how that goes. But also you
brought along a good friend to both of

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ours. Senator john Ford, how
you guys doing? Hello, Tom,

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how are you? Well, I'm
above ground and that's always a good thing.

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Well, it depends on who you
ask. Christina, what's going on

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today? Well, we just come
to visit with you and kind of share

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some information about our programs and what
we're doing, and so we wanted the

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opportunity to kind of get out here
and talk to the community. Well,

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first of all, congratulations, you've
got a new position. It's chief operating

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Officer and officer in charge. That
means you got a lot of things to

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do, a lot of things to
do a lot did they give you a

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bigger plate? Well, you know, I'm thankful that I have wonderful people

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like John Ford here and our board
that really help with transitions like this and

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are just there to support us.
God, what got you interested in being

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a board member? By the way, time, I've been on the board

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six years and one of the things
living in this community and I'm seventy seven

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now, so six years ago i
was seventy one, and you start looking

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at both friends and family and the
services that Eldercare provides is so important for

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our community. Some of ours are
extremely unique for Bartlesville. No one else

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offers it. You know, our
mission is to help help mature adults live

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a happy, healthy, independent life, and that's through educating not only the

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potential client, but also their family
let them know what services are available.

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Because as you go through life from
a teenager to working to retirement, every

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segment of your life you have different
needs, you move into different things,

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and we want to be a resource. We want to be an education center.

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If it's for the patient, if
it's for the parent, if it's

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for the children, so that as
things happen in their life, they have

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a central resource that they can come
to and at least get information. A

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lot of services we don't provide,
but we know in most cases where those

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services are and who they might reach
out to. Christina, we have core

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programs if really are vital to people
for whom we serve absolutely, and you

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know, I would just echo John
said, We're here to serve, and

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that means meeting families where they're at. So our Adult day Health program is

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one of those core programs that we
like to talk about, you know,

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that offers families a resource during the
day that if they need to go to

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work or they have just need some
respite, caregivers can come and bring their

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loved one. We have people that
come to Daybreak who drive themselves. So

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it's a pretty amazing activity center with
supports for medical, medication management and activities,

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cognitive therapies. We do lots of
fun stuff. We have a lot

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of parties at daybreak, and we
just help families reach their goals and be

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able to live independently at home for
as long as they possibly can. You

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know, my mom is in her
eighties and her biggest fear is that she

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would have to leave home. Absolutely, she's fiercely independent. It's been that

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way since, according to my grandfather, the day she started walking and talking

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and she says, Nope, nope, nope, nobody's gonna nobody's gonna put

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reins on me. And you know
that's so she's been all of her life.

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I've been get the feeling that's the
way she's going to stay. And

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having a resource like Eldercare is really
ideal for a lot of independently folks and

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anybody in particular who's aging. Absolutely, and we are so blessed in this

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community to have a resource like Eldercare
and Daybreak And if you haven't had an

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opportunity to come out to Eldercare and
see our facilities, see Daybreak in action,

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I would just invite anyone and everyone
to come out. So we're there

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and we want to talk to people. We want to find families and see

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what they're going through, help them
make some plans and get the services that

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they need so that they can reach
their goals. So you know, if

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their goal is to stay home and
independent, we're going to help them do

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that. And we also have some
other things say oh my goodness, go

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right into the home, don't we
we do. We have our in home

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program and that's a grant program.
It is one of our we are partnered

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with United Way and Grand Gateway Area
Agency on Aging and that program can go

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in at no charge and help with
daily tasks like laundry, house keeping,

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some errands, a little meal prep. And then we have our advantage case

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Management and that program is run through
state and a little bit of federal and

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the families on that need advocacy to
help make sure that all of their services

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are in place. And this is
great, John, this is what you

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said. You know, we don't
have it, we'll find it. And

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sometimes it's they find us, like
grants and everything that make it all work

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well well. And it's just part
of being a resource and knowing what's available

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in the community and knowing what's not
and just trying to help people as their

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situation changes. Oh well, that's
great. Now I understand that we have.

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One thing I've noticed here as of
a last few years is that we

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have all of these different engaging talks
or presentations. It seems like we have

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at once or twice a month out
of eldercare out there at twelve twenty three

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one drive. He can't miss it. If you do, you need glasses.

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It's on the west side. Is
that we've got something really special and

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it's been kind of hitting home for
a lot of families in our area.

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A person who's no stranger to elder
care is a Mary Lou Pork. She's

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got a presentation coming up. She
certainly does. And we love Mary Lou.

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She's been you know, she's one
of our founders and she continues to

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just be an inspiration. But she's
coming on August twenty fourth at six pm

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and she's going to discuss the book
Learning to Speak Alzheimer's and some of those

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key points and how they relate to
families and what they can mean for us.

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If you haven't heard Mary Lou speak, please come. If you're struggling

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with Alzheimer's or you know someone who
is, invite them because I can guarantee

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you you will walk away feeling like
you have been refreshed and you have some

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tools in your toolbox. Wow,
that is going to be cool. And

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it's not only Alzheimer's, it's dementia, it's any other related areas like that

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that this is very beneficial for absolutely
and it is a very crucial because this

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is one of these things kind of
sneaks up on people. It's not something

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that happens overnight. It happens over
a period of years, and the signs

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aren't always there until they're there.
And this is going to be very informative

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and very helpful, and I think
everybody's going to get a nice little lesson

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in patience too. Oh. Absolutely, we all need a lesson in patience

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down I do. We do.
And you know, when something happens to

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a family member or someone we love, we're never really prepared. It's not

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something that you just automatically are planning
for. You're living your life, you're

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moving along and something happened. And
so we want to be that resource.

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We want to be there for you
if something's going on, give us a

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call, let us help you work
through it. Well, we got some

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warm weather after all this rain passes, and of course this rain can stick

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around for a little longer. We
hope. So we hope, so we

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do. But we're also talking about
the Cool Room project. Tell us about

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that. Absolutely. Cool Room is
one of those programs that we have had

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forever and it is so important.
We know that our seniors are more susceptible

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to heat related illness, you know, exhaustion, and oftentimes they don't have

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the means to cool a room in
their home. Well, Elder Care will

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provide an air conditioner that can cool
at least, you know, they're one

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room, so that they have a
safe place in their own home that they

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can be in and kind of beat
the heat and make sure that they're safe.

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And we want to reach as many
people as we possibly can. We've

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had one wonderful community support for this
program and we are in a position to

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be able to lend these air conditioners
out and that's what we want to do.

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John, This is really something you
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bit of a time period where air
conditioning in our lifetimes wasn't always available.

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You had to be kind of well
off to have that in your home.

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Some business has had it, and
we know how miserable that could be.

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Just imagine if it's somebody who's you
know, in their eighties or nineties deepening

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without without air conditioning in their home. It's got to be awful. Well,

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it's very dangerous, it really is. So this is a wonderful program.

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Yeah, it is, and it's
it's great that we have these programs.

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Of course, being on the board, you've seen a lot of things

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come and go a lot of things
change and a lot of cool programs start

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to kind of you know, take
root. Well I have, and as

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I say, I've been there six
years. And the interesting thing is during

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that period we had COVID, Yeah, cod change the world everybody. We

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were not able as quality as we
had in the past to be able to

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be in some of the homes.
We were not able for a period to

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have people into our building and provide
our services there. So consequently, you

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go through this for a year or
two and people kind of forget that you're

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there, what services we offer.
And that's the other reason we're trying to

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get out and just make sure people
know who we are what we do.

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So, yes, it has changed
a lot. I have thoroughly enjoyed my

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time on the board. I've been
on several boards, but this is different

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than any other board. We are
a real business. We offer some real

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services, in many cases services that
no one else offers. Speaking of services,

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you got a clinic to head a
little bit of an upgrade here recently

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we did. Doctor Gerald still there
right, absolutely, he is, and

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we are very excited about this partnership
with HC. They are bringing a wealth

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of knowledge to the table and it
is amazing, great people, great philosophy.

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You know, they have a mission, they're a nonprofit and we are

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just excited about this growth and partnership
Scott and nice seeing some new faces around.

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It's always nice seeing new faces.
We want as many people coming in

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as we can possibly have, and
of course so with the Foundation being out

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there too, we're seeing a lot
of folks take advantage of that. You

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know, Foundation Physical Therapy are specialists. They do an incredible job there.

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Josh Lymbloom is our director. He
is amazing, a friendly, fun loving

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guy who knows his stuff. Oh
yeah, you know, he's amazing,

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and they just have an amazing team
and they get patients in from Tulsa and

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everywhere. So we are very proud
of them in the work they do.

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And they are busy. They are
busy folks, but you are in time.

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One of the other things in our
physical therapy that we offer is the

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therapist and the client are together one
on one. A lot of places you'll

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have one therapist working with a couple
of clients at one time. They'll get

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started on one exercise and they'll work
with the other. But we believe that

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especially with our clientele. It's important
that the therapist is with the client one

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hundred percent of the time of that
exercise. Wonderful. And of course we

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have speech therapy too, absolutely so
folks who might be overcoming an illness or

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a situation such as a stroll strove, they get their ability to communicate back

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I again, they do, they
do. Abbey is amazing and we are

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just blessed to have the therapist that
we do. We have Susan who's also

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a certified hand specialist, and so
you know, we really have the means

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to treat what's going on. And
we hope that people look at us and

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know that, you know, we're
serving all ages, mature adults, you

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know, but all ages in our
physical therapy department and clinic, and we

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want them to contact us. You
know, in the state of Oklahoma,

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they don't have to get a referral
for the first thirty days. They can

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self refer. So if you have
something going on and you want to just

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kind of check it out and see
if you know what it is, give

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us a call, get in touch
with our therapists. They're going to take

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care of you and get you directed
in the right way. Now Eldercare is

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not a residential place. I want
to make that clear. Nobody lives there.

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It's quite the opposite. We want
you to be able to live at

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a home as long as you want
to and as long as you feel good

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comfortable doing it. So so folks
if you drive by there, they say,

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well, where do all the people
they live in their own home?

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That's right right now. We want
to make sure that that's made very very

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clear. But we're also working with
the help of a lot of community partners

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and a lot of donations. John, is there anything against the law about

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right and a check to the Eldercare
to help support them in their mission and

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keep their programs going absolute lutely not, because that's what allows us to provide

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a lot of our services. Some
are fee based, like therapy and some

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of the others, but so many
of the things that we offer we only

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do it because of the generosity and
and things like the Good, Bad and

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barbecue, the Mother's Day weekend annual
event that we have. That was a

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wonderful event. It was, but
no, it is so critically important and

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as I mentioned, not only Eldercare
but all nonprofits. COVID was also very

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tough on them. So we appreciate
those that support us in any way they

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can both financially. We have a
lot of volunteers that come in and help

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us. And where can we find
you not only physically, but on the

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worldwide web about eldercare dot org org
you better do better do org. Yeah,

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you've got to go something you don't
want to go? No, And

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where can we find your online?
I mean I physically physically twelve twenty three

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Swan drive and our phone number is
nine one eight three three six eight five

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zero zero. And if you've heard
about elder care and you want to know

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more, first of all, go
to the website if you can. If

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you're not familiar with the computer,
you just kind of like me, you'd

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rather not just call and set an
appointment. They'll show you around beautifully.

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Call, come by we're there and
ask questions, because Christina, you guys

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have a lot of qualified people who
can answer just about any question out of

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the sun. We do. And
we want to hear your story. We

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want to make sure that we're getting
you the help you need and want.

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We want to help you address your
goals, all right, Eldercare, that's

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where you want to start to taking
a look at things as you're starting to

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age in place where if you have
loved ones who were kind of in that

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situation too, find out what resources
are available. It's a treasure trope.

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Christina, Bishop john Ford, thank
you for being with us. To Tom,

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thank you, thank the radio station, thank the Potter family for making

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this time available. It's very good
for our community and we appreciate it.

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And you've been listening to Community Connection