Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome
Speaker 1: me to this time now for our community connection right
Speaker 1: here on K one, the one you trust. And it's
Speaker 1: great to have friends come in. And Jennifer Ennison is
Speaker 1: here today and she is from Elder Care and we
Speaker 1: want to wish Michael Coloss Peedy recover.
Speaker 2: He's a little under the weather today.
Speaker 3: He is a little under the weather today.
Speaker 2: So it was about half of everybody in this town.
Speaker 3: I agree. There's a lot of things going around.
Speaker 4: So definitely, if you don't have to be out and about,
Speaker 4: you know, it might be good to take a day
Speaker 4: or two at home and just kind of enjoy it.
Speaker 3: The dreary weather there.
Speaker 2: Elder Care a lots going on. I'm going to get
Speaker 2: to the yummy part here in a little bit.
Speaker 3: Okay, but we mean what they're all a little yummy.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, but this one, I mean it leaves evident.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 2: Daybreak, we got some new things happening with daybreak. What's
Speaker 2: going on there?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah?
Speaker 4: Our daybreak program is just such a fun thing. We
Speaker 4: were talking a little bit before.
Speaker 3: The fun thing today is we're gonna have a therapy
Speaker 3: dog in daybreak. Ok I'm really.
Speaker 4: Looking forward to going over there and meeting this beautiful
Speaker 4: little it's not a little dog, he's a big dog
Speaker 4: coming in. And so it's always kind of an exciting
Speaker 4: day over daybreak. You don't know, you know what activities
Speaker 4: are getting into or what shenanikins.
Speaker 2: They're going to. Well, yeah, there's always.
Speaker 4: I went over there yesterday and they were having shakes
Speaker 4: and I was like, I would like a milkshake. Like
Speaker 4: in the middle of the week, we're just having milkshakes,
Speaker 4: and today we're having our therapy dog, and so we're
Speaker 4: it's always an adventure over there. And if you don't
Speaker 4: know what daybreak is, and it's an adult day health
Speaker 4: center where anybody can come over and spend the day
Speaker 4: with us, enjoy activities, lunch, snacks, breakfast, you know, two
Speaker 4: meals and a snack, you around and have fun you
Speaker 4: can and so it's not a place. Unfortunately, you can't
Speaker 4: just come in and say I want to hang out
Speaker 4: in day break today.
Speaker 3: You do kind of have to let us know you're
Speaker 3: coming and go through that.
Speaker 4: But it's a really wonderful place for caregivers and loved
Speaker 4: ones who are looking for a little bit more structure
Speaker 4: in what they're doing for their day. Maybe you feel
Speaker 4: a little isolated at home, so you wanted to go
Speaker 4: a place that is already planning everything for you and
Speaker 4: you don't have to think about it for the day.
Speaker 3: Whether you're a caregiver or you have a caregiver and
Speaker 3: you're like.
Speaker 4: You know, I know, they kind of have their own
Speaker 4: thing going on and they may need a break, and
Speaker 4: so it's a great place to come over and hang
Speaker 4: out and your loved one can go run errands and
Speaker 4: do the things that they need. A lot of times
Speaker 4: people think of it as respite and not everyone kind
Speaker 4: of knows what respite care is, and that is really
Speaker 4: just an opportunity to provide a break for a caregiver
Speaker 4: and that can look different for every and so sometimes
Speaker 4: that's just taking an hour and reading a book or
Speaker 4: taking an hour to get away from home. And so
Speaker 4: you have someone who's you know, helping out kind of
Speaker 4: look over with your loved one all the way to
Speaker 4: daybreak where it's a very structured you come, you know,
Speaker 4: eight to five or seven thirty to five or whatever
Speaker 4: hours are good for you one to five days a week,
Speaker 4: and we can help out with medication administration and provide
Speaker 4: those meals while you kind of take a break for
Speaker 4: the day.
Speaker 3: And so it's a wide range of what respite means.
Speaker 2: And your loved one is going to socialize like you
Speaker 2: wouldn't believe.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean, whether it's being day or you're
Speaker 3: having fun.
Speaker 2: It's not like you're staring at a wall. It's like, hey,
Speaker 2: let's let's goof around a little bit.
Speaker 4: There are so many times when I go over and
Speaker 4: they're playing like beach ball, volleyball, like and I'm like,
Speaker 4: where can I sign up?
Speaker 3: I would like to come over today and also do that,
Speaker 3: And so I try and weasele my way in sometimes
Speaker 3: into an activity.
Speaker 2: They see what those kids are up there.
Speaker 4: But it's a really great place and it's super affordable.
Speaker 4: And so sometimes when we think about care for our
Speaker 4: loved ones, we're like, we can't.
Speaker 3: I can't afford that. It's just not within my range.
Speaker 4: But really, daybreak is one of the most cost effective
Speaker 4: ways to provide care for someone that might have a
Speaker 4: little bit of a physical limitation or maybe it's a
Speaker 4: little bit of cognitive decline. And so you're looking for
Speaker 4: how can I get supports in my families? So we
Speaker 4: can live our best life and everyone you know, daybreak
Speaker 4: is a great option, and so it's something where it's,
Speaker 4: you know, less than one hundred dollars a day, and
Speaker 4: so when you know, depending on what you need for
Speaker 4: the day and whether you're going to drive our buses
Speaker 4: over because we do pick up people in town, or
Speaker 4: whether you're gonna be dropped off or one day or
Speaker 4: five days. It's so flexible and it can be catered
Speaker 4: to your needs. And I think that's important for all
Speaker 4: families to say it's not a one solution fits all.
Speaker 4: It's customizable, it's flexible, it gives you what you need
Speaker 4: need as a family to make those choices, and it's
Speaker 4: going to be right in that budget range for you too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just kind of falls into caregiver support, you know,
Speaker 1: because that's a big thing too, because we have lots
Speaker 1: of caregivers and they sometimes they need a little support.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and caregiving is kind of another term where like
Speaker 4: I think people sometimes are a little hesitant to use it,
Speaker 4: like I'm a caregiver or they're really not sure because
Speaker 4: it can look so different for so many families. Just
Speaker 4: looking after my mom, just looking after my mom, like
Speaker 4: I'm just helping out occasionally, well that's a caregiver, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 4: Or you know, I'm not really caregiving for my spouse
Speaker 4: or my spouse, I'm doing my duty as you know
Speaker 4: a spouse, well you are a caregiver. And so sometimes
Speaker 4: those things change a little bit and it can feel
Speaker 4: a little overwhelming or stressful. Sometimes it can also feel confusing.
Speaker 4: So you're like, where do I go next? Maybe I'm
Speaker 4: in a new role. Maybe I was just helping out
Speaker 4: mom for a little bit, and things have maybe gotten
Speaker 4: a little bit bigger than I intended, and I don't
Speaker 4: know the next step. I don't know who to talk to.
Speaker 4: I have some questions or some concerns, and it can
Speaker 4: get confusing. And so we recognized that caregiving is growing.
Speaker 4: So as you know, we've talked about this, as the
Speaker 4: population gets older, caregiving is going to get larger as well.
Speaker 4: And so as all those things happen, they kind of
Speaker 4: work in tandem. And we've really identified what can we
Speaker 4: do to reach out and support more caregivers this year
Speaker 4: in twenty five and so one of the things that
Speaker 4: we did is we used to have a monthly caregiver
Speaker 4: support and we realized that's not enough because maybe that
Speaker 4: one time of that month you were busy, you had
Speaker 4: doc exppoint men, or you couldn't get away for that time,
Speaker 4: and so you'd have to wait, you know, a little
Speaker 4: bit longer in order two months.
Speaker 3: And so we've introduced now a weekly caregiver.
Speaker 4: So we're going to go to a weekly schedule every
Speaker 4: Tuesday at ten am, and we're going to make sure
Speaker 4: that up front we're going to talk about what topics
Speaker 4: are going to discuss or how it's going to feel.
Speaker 4: And so maybe you know, you're kind of looking at
Speaker 4: and saying, oh, that is definitely a topic that I
Speaker 4: want to go to, and it works with my schedule
Speaker 4: and I can get there where I can move some
Speaker 4: things around and maybe I have to miss this one.
Speaker 4: And so it gives you as a caregiver more and
Speaker 4: dependent some flexibility to say, what do I need, what
Speaker 4: day works for me, what do I need?
Speaker 3: What topics am I looking at.
Speaker 4: We've built some collaborations with local other organizations and we're
Speaker 4: going to have guest speakers coming in and so that
Speaker 4: schedule that you'll see, you'll start seeing which guest speakers
Speaker 4: are coming in. And we just want to we really
Speaker 4: want to wrap our arms around our caregivers here in
Speaker 4: our community.
Speaker 3: And so we're really going to do more things for caregivers.
Speaker 4: We're really expanding those things, and the first step is
Speaker 4: offering more support in those kind of structured caregiving.
Speaker 3: Networks and groups.
Speaker 4: And so we're just thrilled to see that we're gonna
Speaker 4: reach our arms out a little bit wider this year.
Speaker 1: Whoy are we We're talking with Jennifer Ands and she's
Speaker 1: with the Elder Care.
Speaker 2: Now the Big, the Bad, the barbecue, big.
Speaker 3: The bad part. See that's the one you wanted to
Speaker 3: wait on.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, So for those who don't know, it's not too
Speaker 4: far away from the barricue, our annual fundraiser, The Good,
Speaker 4: the Bad, the Barbecue out at the Huge Ranch, shouldn't.
Speaker 4: If you've been, I'm sure you want to come again
Speaker 4: because it's just a big old party.
Speaker 2: It is a big old party had a big old ranch.
Speaker 4: It is, and it's beautiful and I love that you
Speaker 4: can just come in your cowboy boots and your jeans,
Speaker 4: or you can dress up, you know, as much as
Speaker 4: you want to come out and everyone's just having a
Speaker 4: good time chatting, eating some grape being's barbecue.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: And the thing about it is it's a lot of fun,
Speaker 4: but it is also our biggest fundraiser, and so it
Speaker 4: is the way that we are able to do all
Speaker 4: the programs that we have an elder Care. It helps
Speaker 4: us achieve that mission of wrapping our arms around our
Speaker 4: community to support the aging process in general and those
Speaker 4: in that process, which is everybody. And so what we've
Speaker 4: done is we've kicked off our committee. We've met with
Speaker 4: the beautiful group of people who are gonna go down
Speaker 4: that road with us again this here, and sponsorship levels
Speaker 4: for that have already gone out.
Speaker 3: So if you are interested in being.
Speaker 4: A sponsor for our barbecue, getting a table of eight,
Speaker 4: being able to be invited to the party, maybe get
Speaker 4: into that patron party, now is the time. If you
Speaker 4: didn't get a sponsorship letter in the mail, give us
Speaker 4: a call. We'd be happy to send an email over
Speaker 4: or get one in the mail to you. Have a conversation,
Speaker 4: and we hope we'll see more businesses come in and
Speaker 4: come in out and bring their employees and bring their
Speaker 4: friends and family and check out our great party, all
Speaker 4: while raising funds for Elder Kid.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go, and it is a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: and you get to see a lot of people you
Speaker 1: might not have seen for a while.
Speaker 2: You get to reconnect with a lot of folks, have
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. You have everything.
Speaker 1: You've got great food, you've got a great scenery, you've
Speaker 1: got great music, and also great auction.
Speaker 3: Oh we do so we have silent and live auctions
Speaker 3: going on.
Speaker 1: Tom.
Speaker 3: How many people you think come out to our barbecue?
Speaker 2: It look like one hundred million billions, one.
Speaker 3: Hundred million billion. I think you're really close.
Speaker 4: I mean, we have at least seven hundred every single year,
Speaker 4: sometimes all the way up to nine hundred.
Speaker 3: I think it depends on college graduation.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it kind of works around that, kind of works
Speaker 4: around those things. But you're right, if there are seven
Speaker 4: eight hundred people out there, you're going to probably run
Speaker 4: into someone you've seen in a while and you're gonna
Speaker 4: have a great time catching up.
Speaker 2: And it's great.
Speaker 1: It's out there at the beautiful huge were here and
Speaker 1: there's lots of parking. They'll they'll show you where to park,
Speaker 1: walk around and get to see some beautiful things, beautiful
Speaker 1: scenery out there.
Speaker 3: Oh it's that lake.
Speaker 4: My little pond that's right behind the tent is beautiful when.
Speaker 3: The sun starts to go down.
Speaker 4: It's very picturesque when you get out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: And of course the food is great, and the cause
Speaker 1: is really what it's all about. And you know when
Speaker 1: you start having fun raising funds, yeah, everybody has fun.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: I love your little turn of a phrase there, but
Speaker 4: it is inside around.
Speaker 2: Well, you'll get old enough, you'll be able to do that.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Tom, I'm going to leave that to you.
Speaker 1: But this is great now. Eldercare, you have a wonderful website.
Speaker 1: Tell folks where they can bind you.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So if you want to know more about daybreak,
Speaker 4: or look at those caregiver support groups and kind of
Speaker 4: the topics that are coming, look at the barbecue information,
Speaker 4: you can do that on our website, which is about
Speaker 4: Eldercare dot org. We have a pretty active of social
Speaker 4: media presence, so you can find us on Facebook if
Speaker 4: you'd like. We send out email updates on our activities
Speaker 4: and things that.
Speaker 2: Are going on, and I get those and those things
Speaker 2: are very very informative reminders.
Speaker 4: Did you see the one where we had Lori Fulbright
Speaker 4: at our billing yesterday?
Speaker 3: It was a packed house.
Speaker 2: She draws the crowd.
Speaker 4: Oh and it was I learned so much being there, thinking, oh,
Speaker 4: I could fall for that easily, I could fall for
Speaker 4: that scam or that.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, she's really good when it comes to stuff
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 3: She's like, here's what you got to look for exactly.
Speaker 4: And so that's you know, those are the things that
Speaker 4: we love and so you can find those on our
Speaker 4: websites and our social media because we're just about making
Speaker 4: sure you get the information that you need or about fun.
Speaker 4: So check out the activities and the dinners that go on.
Speaker 4: We have a little bit of everything for anyone in
Speaker 4: our community. So it's not a center where you have
Speaker 4: to be sixty.
Speaker 3: Seventy eighty to come in. We have so many things
Speaker 3: for the whole community.
Speaker 2: And it's non residential. Yes, nobody lives there.
Speaker 3: No one lives there.
Speaker 2: There are people who works for belong hours, but nobody
Speaker 2: lives there.
Speaker 3: Well that's okay, yeah, no, we do.
Speaker 4: No one lives there, and so sometimes our activities are
Speaker 4: in the evening so you still get to see our building.
Speaker 4: If you're looking for physical therapy, we have that for
Speaker 4: all ages, so you know, take care of your health.
Speaker 4: That's what we always say. It's about our health and
Speaker 4: that's how we're going to find that we're going to
Speaker 4: age the way we want to.
Speaker 2: There we go, There we go, Jennifer, it's always a
Speaker 2: pleasure to have you here.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Tom.
Speaker 1: Eldredcare once again about Eldercare dot org. Yes, that's where
Speaker 1: you got to find everything.
Speaker 4: And you can give us a call at nine one
Speaker 4: eight three three six eight five zero zero or visit
Speaker 4: us at twelve twenty three Swan Drive.
Speaker 3: We love guests, so come by for a tour.
Speaker 4: I'd love to chat with you, show you our daybreak facility,
Speaker 4: cpt hear what's going on.
Speaker 3: So all are well.
Speaker 2: Come. It's a beautiful building and you can't miss it.
Speaker 2: It's huge.
Speaker 4: It is huge, and then when you get inside everyone
Speaker 4: always says the same thing is it's bigger than I
Speaker 4: thought it was from the outside.
Speaker 2: It is absolutely making. I don't know how you gotta
Speaker 2: do that. It looks like optic.
Speaker 3: Illusion doing us absolutely all right.
Speaker 2: Once again, folks, you've been watching and listening to our
Speaker 2: community can