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Speaker 3: Very happy Friday to you.
Speaker 1: Put a smile on my face to have Patty Scott
Speaker 1: and Roger King, Roger King's on the line, Patty Scott's
Speaker 1: in studio Heart for Seniors. We've had them on before
Speaker 1: and I'm from the bottom of my heart, I want
Speaker 1: to thank all my listeners for supporting the organization. They're
Speaker 1: doing wonderful things for seniors in you know care centers,
Speaker 1: you know Alzheimer's facilities, senior living centers, where they're quite
Speaker 1: often not closely watched and tended to. It's not that they,
Speaker 1: you know, intentionally neglect someone, but it's the concept of
Speaker 1: being able to know when someone is in need of
Speaker 1: some attention along the lines of incontinents, changing diapers and things,
Speaker 1: because otherwise you're stewing in your own juices, to put
Speaker 1: it lightly. Patty, always a pleasure to have you in
Speaker 1: the studio. Welcome back, Roger. It's good to have you
Speaker 1: on as well, sir, Thank you.
Speaker 4: Thank you, and Brian again, thank you for having us,
Speaker 4: because it's your listener base that has taken such an
Speaker 4: interest in this topic and they're alway supporting. And what
Speaker 4: I love is after the show, uh, they always call
Speaker 4: in and we're helping them. We've had and which is
Speaker 4: why we've launched the podcast, because we had so many
Speaker 4: questions from so many of your listeners that needed help.
Speaker 2: Well that's great, it's you know.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons I get up in the morning
Speaker 1: is because I get an opportunity to spread news and
Speaker 1: information about organizations like yours. And what a simple concept
Speaker 1: and and and genuinely, you know, easily affordable concept you
Speaker 1: guys have brought about. It just sounds like why didn't
Speaker 1: someone do this before? So why don't you remind my listeners,
Speaker 1: maybe the someone who's not familiar with It's It's heart
Speaker 1: the number four seniors dot org. That's the website where
Speaker 1: you can learn about their mission and maybe donate. I
Speaker 1: provided them with a donation myself. I was so inspired
Speaker 1: by what they're doing. So one of you, Roger or Patty,
Speaker 1: take it over and explain the concept what you're doing.
Speaker 5: Okay, well I'll launch this off. Well let's just talk
Speaker 5: about the problem. And basically, when you look at incontinence
Speaker 5: care and nursing homes and assists of living and other
Speaker 5: aggregate living situations, the lack of responsiveness to incontinent episodes
Speaker 5: is a major area of concern. I would say that
Speaker 5: when you're looking at fifty to eighty percent of the
Speaker 5: population in a nursing home being in continent.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of people.
Speaker 5: And right, we're seeing often and it's not incumbent at
Speaker 5: all to see people lay for twelve hours without being
Speaker 5: changed or more. And sometimes by then, of course they've
Speaker 5: had several episodes of incontinence, and you know, you're you're
Speaker 5: looking at some really negative outcomes that can occur from that.
Speaker 5: Usually the first thing is you get you know, red
Speaker 5: blistered skin, which is painful.
Speaker 2: Tip you'll see that epidermal.
Speaker 5: Erosion turn into a wound, and of course of the incontinent, uh,
Speaker 5: and attention continues that woind's going to get infected. This
Speaker 5: is a spiral downward and often you'll see these wounds
Speaker 5: get very deep and with with a systemic infection, you know,
Speaker 5: you can you can be looking at a hospitalization and
Speaker 5: even death. So it's it really is an area of
Speaker 5: care that is just fundamental and can lead to some
Speaker 5: pretty serious negative outcomes. So what we need to.
Speaker 2: Do is do better in a way that doesn't.
Speaker 5: Punish people or use you know, punishments as the way
Speaker 5: of going about it. And that's that's been what we're about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you and you say punishment.
Speaker 1: You're talking about the caregivers at whatever facility that are
Speaker 1: responsible for going around in checking on the status of
Speaker 1: each individual patient. But if you get a facility that's
Speaker 1: got a lot of people in it, and there's always
Speaker 1: there's always not enough people to take care of the
Speaker 1: people in the facility. And Patty's nodding in great approval.
Speaker 1: So the ratio of providers to patients, if we can
Speaker 1: call them patients, is inadequate. But that's difficult thing to overcome.
Speaker 1: And the other component is, you know, they're not always
Speaker 1: the most highly trained, skilled people. You're not talking about
Speaker 1: skilled nurses taking care of folks. You're talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: people who have just been given a certain set of
Speaker 1: training and like, okay, every two hours or every five
Speaker 1: hours or every ten hours, I once you to do
Speaker 1: this particular wing, and once you check them, and then
Speaker 1: you go back to your posts. So I get that,
Speaker 1: But punishing them for something that they have, well, an
Speaker 1: inability to get their heads and hands around, just seems
Speaker 1: like it just a worthless effort. So we'll pause and
Speaker 1: we'll bring back Roger and Patty to talk about a
Speaker 1: much much better way to go about doing this, and
Speaker 1: It's really terrific, and I know my listeners are going
Speaker 1: to go directly to the facilities where their loved ones
Speaker 1: are and demand that this be brought about. That's what
Speaker 1: we're hoping that happens. So let's pause for a moment.
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Speaker 1: Seven forty fifty five KRC the talk station. Very Happy
Speaker 1: Friday to you. Air Force Colonel Josh McConkey with his
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Speaker 1: of the our news and the return of vets and
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Speaker 1: Hensley at eight thirty. In the meantime, plan please to
Speaker 1: have Patty Scott and Roger King on the show to
Speaker 1: talk about Heart for Seniors. It's Heart the Number four
Speaker 1: Seniors dot Org. They address elder abuse and neglect in
Speaker 1: nursing homes and elder care facilities. And we were talking
Speaker 1: about incontinent It's a huge problem. It's almost impossible for
Speaker 1: everyone to stay up on it, which is why, as
Speaker 1: Roger pointed out in the last segment and sorry to
Speaker 1: hear it, with eighty percent of the patient's experiencing a
Speaker 1: and that's a figure I was not aware of. That's
Speaker 1: a lot. So you have a huge volume of people
Speaker 1: who need their diapers change regularly, and he Roger already
Speaker 1: outlined all the medical implications behind that not happening. So
Speaker 1: now we address the problem with a unbelievably simple, ingenious solution.
Speaker 1: You want to take care of that, Roger, Patty is
Speaker 1: at your turn.
Speaker 4: Roger, I can talk about it here as well. So
Speaker 4: Hard for Seniors actually funds with your donations. Additional technology.
Speaker 2: It's simple.
Speaker 4: It's alert response technology and it literally is technology that
Speaker 4: is a smart brief specifically with incontinence. And Roger can
Speaker 4: go into more detail of that. That simply alerts the
Speaker 4: healthcare worker that there's been moisture.
Speaker 1: Right, so second floor room B got to go there
Speaker 1: because you've got a situation.
Speaker 2: I don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 5: Oh, go ahead, No, it's better than that. It is
Speaker 5: it is missus Smith in room one hundred that the
Speaker 5: steff knows exactly who it is. It's when you think
Speaker 5: about this, you first have to look at the protocol
Speaker 5: that most of these nursing homes are using. Now they say, well,
Speaker 5: to the staff, you're supposed to check every resident every
Speaker 5: two hours to see if they've had an incontinence episode.
Speaker 5: Of course there's no accountability for that. Now, when you
Speaker 5: do the math, if you have just fifty people in
Speaker 5: a building with twelve nursing assistants, you're supposed to check
Speaker 5: those people six hundred times a day. If you're doing
Speaker 5: it every two hours, it doesn't work. The numbers don't work.
Speaker 5: And when I've asked nursing assistants.
Speaker 2: Well, how do you check? How do you check?
Speaker 5: Well? You hear things like I touch, I smell, I feel,
Speaker 5: I peak. It's undignified for both parties, really, and when
Speaker 5: you set up when you set up a protocol, hall,
Speaker 5: that's doomed to failure, and everybody knows that eventually you
Speaker 5: get surrender, and surrender equals neglect, So the numbers don't work.
Speaker 2: And with the technology, what we.
Speaker 5: Do is you forget all that only go when you're
Speaker 5: alerted that there's an episode. So now instead of trying
Speaker 5: to run around and check everybody, we're directing traffic and
Speaker 5: we're saying to the nurse aid, go to room one hundred,
Speaker 5: check on missus Smith, and it talks to a smartphone
Speaker 5: the nurse AD's carrying, and she goes to the room,
Speaker 5: and then the technology monitors how fast they got there,
Speaker 5: you know, and and tracks the time it took.
Speaker 2: To take care.
Speaker 5: What we're seeing with the bioling technology is about a
Speaker 5: one hour response time on average, which is excellent. We're
Speaker 5: getting there quick, so the and then the staff. Ultimately,
Speaker 5: as the software tracks what's going on and creates daily reports,
Speaker 5: we do an incentive program which gives rewards points to
Speaker 5: the nursing assistance for moving faster and working harder, so
Speaker 5: we get better efficiency overall, and we get better outcomes
Speaker 5: and better responsiveness to the needs of these residents.
Speaker 2: That's just the entire that's the entire process.
Speaker 1: It's just so logical and reasonable. And I always wonder
Speaker 1: because you know, this type of technology has been available
Speaker 1: or could have easily been available, for quite some time.
Speaker 1: But it's just amazingly impactful. And I like the incentive
Speaker 1: program built on top of it, because again, getting people
Speaker 1: to get up and do something that they probably is
Speaker 1: the least desirous part of their job. Okay, you're going
Speaker 1: to get to interact with seniors and maybe help them
Speaker 1: if you get joy and enlightenment from that. Help them
Speaker 1: with their meals and move them around, get them outside.
Speaker 1: That kind of thing all up can be uplifting components
Speaker 1: of the job. But when it comes to dealing with this,
Speaker 1: I gotta imagine it's probably bottom on the list of
Speaker 1: things that folks want to do. So having an incentive
Speaker 1: to get up there and clean them up real quickly
Speaker 1: is just an extra benefit of this, of this this
Speaker 1: software and this technology. Now I'm on your website again,
Speaker 1: heartfour Seniors dot org. Does it monitor other things? Because
Speaker 1: I see you talk about irregular heartbeating, dehydration and respiratory
Speaker 1: conditions and things of that nature.
Speaker 2: Does it also do that well?
Speaker 5: The brief system itself will monitor for fevers. It will
Speaker 5: also monitor for turning a position. But within that software,
Speaker 5: we will alert if someone hasn't urinated in a certain
Speaker 5: period of time, so we're looking at dehydration, we're looking
Speaker 5: at some other kinds of factors that you can information
Speaker 5: you can derive from the output of the human body.
Speaker 5: So there's that, but we have additional hardware that feeds
Speaker 5: them to. Ultimately, the goal is to have an entire
Speaker 5: ecosystem of technology over a building. So we're alerting on
Speaker 5: lots of different needs. So there's a riskwearable device that
Speaker 5: looks at pulse sc symmetry, it looks at heart rate,
Speaker 5: it will alert on tacocardia, bradycardia, and we're looking at
Speaker 5: fever with that as well. So if something goes above
Speaker 5: or blow a certain threshold and it's patient specific, it
Speaker 5: sends out an alert to the smart devices and tells
Speaker 5: us that, hey, missus Jones in room two hundred has
Speaker 5: a fever, or we've got to drop in pulsec symmetry,
Speaker 5: you know, seventy five percent instead of you above ninety,
Speaker 5: whatever the case may be. So the technology is designed
Speaker 5: to tell the staff there's a need that exists. Potentially
Speaker 5: with a resident, we need you to go check on them.
Speaker 5: We need you to go deal with this, as opposed
Speaker 5: to just you know, having some sort of protocol or
Speaker 5: neglect happen, as the case may be. I can imagine
Speaker 5: how long it might be if someone has a fever
Speaker 5: in a nursing him before it's detected.
Speaker 2: It can go for a while.
Speaker 5: And the earlier you get there, the faster you respond
Speaker 5: to these needs, the better the outcome.
Speaker 2: Well, and I'm for your idea.
Speaker 1: And I'm staring at your results at on heartfurseniors dot org,
Speaker 1: and I'm just kind of wondering as I see the
Speaker 1: insane increase in improvement eighty six percent improvement in response time,
Speaker 1: ninety three percent reduction in hospitalizations, ninety five percent reduction
Speaker 1: amiss early warning signs, ninety percent increase in overall patience satisfaction.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of one of the things I was thinking,
Speaker 1: are these facilities rated by state organizations or entities? Do
Speaker 1: they get scores themselves like oh that one's got a
Speaker 1: bad rep, that one's got a good rep. This could
Speaker 1: in and of itself create a much more positive environment
Speaker 1: and a much higher satisfaction rate among the patients because
Speaker 1: they're being taken care of. The family members know that
Speaker 1: this technology is there and they're not going to get neglected.
Speaker 1: They're going to see the scores and the numbers. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is this is good for the facility, it's good
Speaker 1: for the families who are worried about their loved one,
Speaker 1: and more fundamentally, it's good for the loved one who's
Speaker 1: laying there.
Speaker 5: I would agree it's it's a win win win, and
Speaker 5: ultimately it's uplifting to the caregivers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5: You're talking about employees who make let's just say twenty
Speaker 5: dollars an hour for a nursing assistant. That's not a
Speaker 5: living wage. And we come in with the technology and
Speaker 5: we say, you know what, if you move fast, if
Speaker 5: you work harder, if you learn some new skills around technology,
Speaker 5: we're going to give you additional rewards. And Brian, what's
Speaker 5: really interesting is a nursing assistant. You know, every two
Speaker 5: weeks we issue the gift cards to these people and
Speaker 5: let's just say it's one hundred and fifty dollars. That's
Speaker 5: gasoline in their car, that's groceries to the family. That's
Speaker 5: extra money they haven't they look forward to that. It's
Speaker 5: amazing how much difference it makes to them. So we're
Speaker 5: looking to not just impact that residence, but the workers,
Speaker 5: the healthcare workers themselves, you know, and make sure that
Speaker 5: they're uplifted along with the quality of care.
Speaker 2: Amen to that.
Speaker 1: You are a five oh one C three nonprofit and
Speaker 1: of course you provide these resources to folks and it's
Speaker 1: all funded through individual contributions and donations. And I strongly
Speaker 1: encourage my listeners. You're saving lives with this, and you're
Speaker 1: improving people's quality of life, especially in those years where
Speaker 1: a lot of people suffer from a lack of quality
Speaker 1: of life. Heart Number four Seniors dot Org upright hand corner.
Speaker 1: Little button says donates easy to do. I've been there
Speaker 1: and done that, and I sure got a great amount
Speaker 1: of satisfaction for knowing that that money was being spent.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, this is a worthwhile donation.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: And Roger, it has been a real pleasure having you
Speaker 1: back on and I feel so much better about the
Speaker 1: seniors and those facilities thanks to the work that you're doing.
Speaker 1: And again I'll encourage my listeners to help you out
Speaker 1: with the donation. On your website learn more about the
Speaker 1: entire program. Keep up the great.
Speaker 4: Work, Brian. Thank you for your support. I could not
Speaker 4: do it without you, and we encourage anybody who wants
Speaker 4: to go deeper about incontinence head out to the podcast.
Speaker 4: We are on all platforms, including the iHeart platform, and
Speaker 4: it's a deep dive. It's a long one, but Roger
Speaker 4: and doctor SHAWNA. Rutherford go deep into incontinence care, wounds,
Speaker 4: all kinds of things. And we're going to keep doing
Speaker 4: the podcast because your listeners have asked, oh that's great,
Speaker 4: They've wanted specific topics, so we're just going to keep
Speaker 4: going with it.
Speaker 1: So it's Heart for Seniors podcasts. Search for it, you'll
Speaker 1: find it and I'm sure you'll enjoy finding out all
Speaker 1: the information and details. Thanks again for the work that
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