Good money, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome,
meetians at the time now for our community connection right here on okay,
one the one you trusted. I am blessed here but two of the nicest
ladies loved our community. It's always great to have him here. First of
all, we have a Julie and Christina and we're talking about Elbow your care
today. First of all, Christina Bishop, excuse me here, Julie,
congratulating becoming the executive director of Eldercare. We have the news story on there
today. Yay. We'll give you our hand for that. I'm honored.
Well, you know you've been around the building about that a little while,
about seventeen years. Yes, And you're not moving your office, are you.
I'm not. That's good. I'm going to stay put perks of the
job. I'm not moving. She has the big corner office. Well congratulations.
Well I appreciate that. Tom. We are going to do some great
things. Oh indeed, one of the great things is kind of coming up,
isn't it. We have the good, the bad, and the barbecue.
We do, we do, we do, We're sided. Christina just
told me it was thirty eight days away. Yesterday, and so I know
it's like you're playing the big event in those last few weeks. It's hot
and heavy and bringing it home and having a good time when we get there.
Well, it is going to be great. Tell us a little bit
about it. You're the chair. I am the chair this year. I'm
so glad to work alongside Christina and her entire team, and our committee is
wonderful too. So we've got some of the top community leaders on that committee
and we're dividing things out and working with our community and the local businesses and
providers and putting together a great event. So mark your calendars. It's always
Mother's Day weekend and it's always rain and shine. So this year it's May
eleventh. We're going to be out the huge ranch. We will be out
with the Hughes Ranch. They have welcomed us again this year and it's a
great property. They've done a lot of updates. Beautiful, Yeah, they've
done some great updates. We'll be offering a VIP experience in the main house
there. There's artwork, just a beautiful collection of I think Julie and I
were doing and awing as we went through there. We were and so we
wanted to offer that as an experience this year. So dinner is one hundred
if you want to join us at six pm. If you want to be
a VIP and enjoy the entire ranch experience that starts at four point thirty,
it's a five hundred dollars ticket to have that VIP experience. But it's an
awesome Yeah, I mean they're paying how much to go see what's her name,
miss Swift? Yeah, let's go see. Let's go see the huge
ranch and then benefit Eldercare by doing that. There you are, and of
course the Eldercare has a one mission and one mission only, and that to
make sure that seniors can age in place with dignity and all the help they
can ever want. A quality of life. That's what's important, it is,
and this is a great way to kind of celebrate Eldercare as well as
kind of help take care of some of the bills. Absolutely, we need
those funds. So it's a fundraising event and we're counting on our community to
really get in there and have fun with us and raise some dollars. Now,
truly, how do we get the tickets? The tickets are online so
at about Eldercare dot org backslash BBQ. You're going to see a billboard coming
up. We've had some community announcements and so you can even stop buy elder
Care to the front desk. They'll take care of you. They're prepared to
welcome you in. And so the easiest way is probably online to do that.
And you'll see an icon even on the landing page if you just put
in Eldercare Bartlesville. It's right there on the front page. You'll take you
down to the event and please pretty simple, please join us. Yeah,
it's pretty simple these days. Well, there you go. I know you've
got other experiences too that are going to be kind of intermeshed with the big
bad bartel we do. You know, I sat down with Christina pretty early
on and she has a big goal and a big vision, and to do
that, we have to provide an event that's really intriguing and fun. So
it takes it all in. And so the Express Clydesdale is are going to
bring two of their iconic horses to the ranch. I mean, how appropriate
is that. So Express has been a great supporter here and so we'll have
the We're going to have a horseshoe toss for some bourbon and some wine and
things like that, and then if you can throw a horse shoe, you're
gonna win something. We're going to have a raffle, so that's gonna be
fun for a trip or a small ATV kind of experience. So one hundred
tickets at one hundred dollars apiece. Somebody asked yesterday what if one person wants
to buy all of them? So that's a that's a ten thousand dollars donation.
That's pretty wise because you're gonna get something out of that. So I
thought that was a great question to ask. That's called luck of the draw.
And then they are known for their live auction. We'll have ten fabulous
items including dining experiences, an event out, another trip, an event out
at wool Rock for fifty people that will be provided by Dinks and wool Rock,
and we're gonna have dining with some chefs. We're going to have some
great jewelry pieces from McCoy's and windows and so I'm the silent auction too,
so we'll have anything from We got some art pieces from previous clients, the
Elder care as they're beautiful, really really great pieces that I think symbolize what
elder Care is and the creativity and just the provision of continuing to provide life
for our people in the community. And then we'll have things, you know,
Kindrick Scott and some you know, gift cards and things like that.
And then you guys know, it's the good, it's the bad, and
it's the barbecue. And Dinks has always been our barbecue provider, and so
we're gonna have I think we decided to meet meat more meat. So the
Curds have been wonderful. Sat down with them and kind of talked through that
last week to make sure we're serving and providing a great meal. There's also
gonna be some live music. So after we're done doing some auctions and and
and you know opening up the park, uh the pocket book. Like Christina
said, it is a fundraiser, then we're gonna have a good time and
just celebrate. Well, this is going to be fun, lots of fun.
Yeah. Now, Christine, I understand you got a little construction going
on. Little CONSTRUCTIONCHC on Swan Drive. Yes, So CHC, who is
in our clinical space provides those clinical services. They are expanding. We're going
to have more docs and so we need more exam rooms. Well there you
go. Yeah, I'm excited. That's been a quick year, hasn't it.
We have had a fast paced year. It has been fast. But
that's only a proc Well, you know, I took into count the last
six months. You know, it depends on when you start your year.
Yeah, of course, but this is great. Adding on and growing is
always a good thing. It is always a good thing. And you know,
Tom, every day in the United States, ten thousand people turned sixty
five and by the time we get to twenty fifty, twenty percent of our
population will be sixty five or older. And so I look at this as
an opportunity, an opportunity to really make a difference in the aging population,
the services, quality of care. And you know, when you think about
it, sometimes people think, oh, that's my grandma or that's my mom
and dad, But truly we're all aging and we need to start thinking about
that earlier because right now, with the numbers the way they are, I
am I'm excited because it gives us that voice, and we need to think
about our children and our grandchildren and what we want their aging to look like
because we're all doing it. We're all aging every day and we're going to
have quality services and that's what elder Cares all about, living well, quality
of life. So we're going to do this, do right, do right.
So my elderly okay, because I've been a patient at elder Care so
in my turn fifty and even today, and so I think even the elderly
and then you're seeing some specialty services. Their physical therapies be therapy and occupational
therapy. It's called Eldercare. But you can walk in there, yes,
eighteen and over right, eighteen and over, eighteen over, and it's nice
to see those fresh faces. The elderly population actually likes to see the youth
come in. And so I've personally been served by elder Care, and then
with some of the specialty docs coming in, that's going to expand to There
was a little baby in there with his mama yesterday and his grandma. So
grandma came in with her daughter and her grand baby, and that was really
neat to see the entire family generational. You know, that's cool and really
start taking care of yourself early on to live well into age. Well.
So we want to be a part of all of that. No. With
Eldercare, you have all kinds of great services. You know, when we
talk about getting ourselves back together after like say a ball or maybe illness or
something like that, Doctor Josh and everybody can take care of you. He's
incredible. His team is amazing. They're awesome. Foundation therapy service. It's
wonderful. And of course when you we think of maybe slowing down a little
bit in our thinking and things like that, we've got the brain gym go
yes we do and Abby and you know, you've got to stay cognitively well.
Just like you exercise your body, you've got to exercise our brains.
And research now says that one of the things we can do is if we're
doing two activities at once. So if you're walking and you've got someone with
you and you're talking, that's only going to help increase that cognitive wellness.
And so we've got to think about those things. It's not just doing the
crossword anymore. It's really challenging your brain and doing multiple things. And we
want to bring those services and programs to you. So get ready, low
ruming, Well, this is a pretty darn cool. I'm really liking it's
good to bed the barbecue FIRS Day weekend. Yeah, man, huge,
thirty eight days, thirty seven. So it's fun to get your tickets.
I mean, great Mother's Day gift again. We talk about multi generation.
Get your mom, get your family, get a table. You know,
it's fun. It's gonna be fun, and you're gonna want to wear your
best Western attire. I hear there are some really amazing outfits that show up.
There's a bit oh, I mean yeah, last year that was good
stuff. I think it's worth a dinner ticket just to maybe do some people
watching and shop a little bit at the Silent auction and see your friends,
see your friends. Yes, and we want to invite in the younger population
too. We want those young professionals. I mean, they're the ones that
are going to inherit this organization even after after I'm gone. Yeah, so
we want those young professionals in there. I know leadership Bartles Will comes by
to tour and it's just such a wonderful community asset that most communities don't see
anything this unique like what elder care provides. You know, here in that
twenty five to forty four group, this is something you really need to witness.
This is something you got to be a part of. And if you've
been thinking about it too, I don't know, Well, come on out
there. I can tell you right now that I used to be twenty five,
I used to be forty four, and I would have had a blast
that either of those ages or anywhere in between. Because when we went out
there last year for the very first time, it was most fun I had
in a long time. Oh, it's right, Well, thank you for
saying that. That's amazing. It's one of one of the well known events
in our community for fundraising, and Christina has a big goal. I mean,
she'd like to see a ticket come in. She wants two hundred thousand
dollars. You know, if you look at that for Daybreak, that's significant.
So we want to support them. And Daybreak is one of our signature
programs. It is, it's one of our flagship programs, and you know,
it's just critical to have services like that in the community, and it's
one of our programs we're going to be expanding on. So we really do
need the help of the community. For folks who aren't sure they've heard the
term Daybreak, but they don't know what it is, give us a little
topic. It's an adult day activity and health center, so that means there's
all sorts of cognitive X exercise, stimulation programs. We just have fun.
It's eighty A compliant, which means anybody can come. We can help,
you know, support them, support people who are caregiving by providing respite.
We have medical oversight, We have an LPN on staff, and you know,
we have the clinic in the building, so we can help kind of
transition through the different programs. But it's one of those things that you got
to get in and get in early. And we're going to be developing some
programs for early diagnosis. So if someone's having some memory loss, we want
to target that and help them stay better longer. And it's one of the
ways you really do that. You got to get in programs, support groups
right when you get that diagnosis or you start feeling like, oh, I'm
maybe having some challenges. The earlier we can address those things, the better
off we're going to be. But I understand the daybreak. Actually we're the
cool kids hanging. I was in there yesterday and they were doing art and
then a group was doing their exercise and stretching, and we have a.
It was like national hot chocolate something. It's always a national holiday there too.
So I mean, if you want to have fun and hang out with
the cool kids, socialization parties, we want to have fun, and I
think that's what we do at Eldercare. We love on people. We try
to have fun in every department. We want to be a part of your
family and in so many ways over the past forty plus years you have been.
We want that to continue, and we want a thousand people out there
at the event this year. We really really want to see everybody. If
it's not worth one hundred dollars to join us for that, and I don't
know, that's the best hundred dollars you can spend. I was just going
to say, that's the best one hundred bucks to get ever fly out of
your wallet. It really is paper itself. Big dividends not only for elder
Care. But you will walk away with the biggest smile on your face.
So hit that website, buy those tickets. We'll send you a ticket,
get you in the gate and take it from there. It'll be it'll be
a great night, amazing. I want to thank you both for being here.
Conank you. Thank you so much. Yes, engratuation have be in
the chair and my honor, it's we are blasted, it's my honor.
Oh my gosh. Well, thank you folks. You have been listening and
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