Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It
Speaker 1: is time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust. We have our friends
Speaker 1: from Elder Care in here. We have miss Bishop, Miss Kola.
Speaker 2: How you doing, kids, wonderful.
Speaker 1: Tom My, goodness Egs. It's a beautiful morning. And speaking
Speaker 1: of beautiful morning, you guys have a thing called daybreak
Speaker 1: out there that works really well. We do.
Speaker 3: We have a beautiful, beautiful center Adult a health our
Speaker 3: Daybreak program and it is amazing. We have Miss Sheila
Speaker 3: Tucker who is our administrator and she is just fabulous.
Speaker 3: It is a wonderful environment that helps families, you know,
Speaker 3: stay at home longer. It gives them something that they
Speaker 3: can do. It provides respite, It gives people a purpose.
Speaker 1: It does and that's where the cool kids hang out, Michael.
Speaker 4: That's where all the cool kids hang out at It's
Speaker 4: undergo wander back there in the building and check out
Speaker 4: what's going on at daybreak from checkers and chess to
Speaker 4: pottery to music to get I mean, they're doing something
Speaker 4: constantly and.
Speaker 1: It's always a conversation.
Speaker 4: There's always a conversation and they're going to grab you
Speaker 4: and you walk through and pull you into their conversation.
Speaker 4: And it's a great it's a great first choice for
Speaker 4: anyone who is looking to stay at home longer, and
Speaker 4: I think too many people miss out on that. They
Speaker 4: go I don't know what our options are. Do we
Speaker 4: have someone who comes to the home, or do we
Speaker 4: put someone in an assisted living No, come to daybreak,
Speaker 4: come to elder care, because you're not going to find
Speaker 4: a more active, affordable, and efficient way to extend your
Speaker 4: independence at home than through Daybreak.
Speaker 1: Absolutely well, Christina, you get the best best of both
Speaker 1: worlds here for your loved one. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, you get to go Holpe, you know where
Speaker 1: everything is, everything's pretty familiar to you. In the daytime,
Speaker 1: you get to have friends, you.
Speaker 3: Do and like I said, it gives that purpose. But
Speaker 3: we have people who drive to Daybreak, They drive themselves.
Speaker 3: We have individuals who need a little bit more oversight.
Speaker 3: We have people who've just felt really lonely at home
Speaker 3: and wanted to reconnect, and so Daybreak gives them that opportunity.
Speaker 3: It gives them an opportunity to help others. And when
Speaker 3: we help others, we feel very hopeful and we have
Speaker 3: a purpose, and that is so important.
Speaker 1: You have something seeing the smiles when you walk in.
Speaker 1: That's got to be the kind of a reward in it.
Speaker 3: It is amazing.
Speaker 2: This job offers so much of that.
Speaker 3: The wisdom and just the people and the connection is
Speaker 3: just amazing. Tom. We can't tell you how beneficial it
Speaker 3: is to be a part of this community and the
Speaker 3: families that come to elder Care because they lift us up,
Speaker 3: they educate us, and they bring so much to the table.
Speaker 1: You know, we have a lot of caretakers that utilize
Speaker 1: a lot of the resources that Elder Care is part of,
Speaker 1: but sometimes the caretakers need a little care themselves.
Speaker 4: There's no question about that. We offer a weekly caregiver
Speaker 4: support group. It's every Tuesday at ten am. And if
Speaker 4: you come to the caregiver support group and you'm not
Speaker 4: sure what to do with your loved one with the
Speaker 4: person who's receiving the care, call us and talk to
Speaker 4: Sheila at daybreak because for that one hour you could
Speaker 4: have your loved one be a part of daybreak for
Speaker 4: that one hour while you're at the caregiver support group.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: And then we have another unique group that meets every
Speaker 4: Thursday from ten to eleven thirty.
Speaker 2: It's called Open Door Cafe. We don't really view it
Speaker 2: as a support group because it's just a place.
Speaker 4: To belong if you are someone who just needs some
Speaker 4: time to yourself as a caregiver. But we ask you
Speaker 4: to bring your care receiver, your loved one with you
Speaker 4: and they can be in the cafe area with you.
Speaker 4: They can be in the room right next door where
Speaker 4: Sheila and daybreak staff are there with cognitive gains, different
Speaker 4: things to help them stay busy and to you know,
Speaker 4: just kind of exercise their mind during that time. And
Speaker 4: you're not leaving your loved one at home, you're bringing
Speaker 4: them there with us. So it's respite for that caregiver
Speaker 4: through those two opportunities that we have.
Speaker 1: And when they're bringing their loved one in, can't you
Speaker 1: just almost see that little light come on and you're like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this is cool. I'm not a.
Speaker 3: Loomed amazing, And it provides an opportunity to come in
Speaker 3: a cafe style, so there's coffee and tea and pastries
Speaker 3: from the eatery which are amazing, and it's a chance
Speaker 3: for the caregiver to sit down and not have to
Speaker 3: answer any questions. Sometimes I just want to go somewhere
Speaker 3: that nobody's asking me questions. It's a time to connect.
Speaker 3: If they want to seek resources, they can, or if
Speaker 3: they just want someone to visit with, we're there. But
Speaker 3: the other part of Adult Day Health that respite that
Speaker 3: we're open seven thirty am to five thirty each day.
Speaker 3: They may have a caregiver that still works, They may
Speaker 3: have a caregiver that just needs some downtime so they
Speaker 3: can provide the care in the evening. Adult Day offers that,
Speaker 3: and Adult Day Health is one of the most affordable
Speaker 3: means of care you will find.
Speaker 1: Wow, we have folks. You need to contact either Michael
Speaker 1: or Christina out there at the Elder Care and ask
Speaker 1: about this program and maybe come out and take a
Speaker 1: little visitally.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we love to do tours. We love to talk
Speaker 3: to people. When you think about care, if you're imagining
Speaker 3: a center that offers cognitive therapies, physical therapies, you know,
Speaker 3: access to your medical providers, games, entertainment, socialization, all of
Speaker 3: the oversight. We have a dedicated nurse on staff for
Speaker 3: Adult Day Health at a little over eleven dollars an hour,
Speaker 3: right that is unheard of. That and Adult Day is
Speaker 3: one of those programs that is the most audited. So
Speaker 3: we have the best care that you know is available
Speaker 3: and it really extends your time at home, if not indefinitely,
Speaker 3: and provides that community connection. So the other thing I
Speaker 3: want to mention real quick, I know I can talk
Speaker 3: a lot, is the we have so many ways of
Speaker 3: helping pay for adult day health through scholarship, we take VA,
Speaker 3: we have the Advantage program, we have block grants. You know,
Speaker 3: private pay long term care insurance. But if you need
Speaker 3: that service, we're going to find a way to help
Speaker 3: you get what you need.
Speaker 1: My goodness, I think you just made a whole lot
Speaker 1: of people to say wow because they were wanting to
Speaker 1: take part of the services listening in and it's like,
Speaker 1: going on, how do I cover this?
Speaker 3: You just open the door, just come talk to us.
Speaker 1: Conversations work, don't they?
Speaker 2: It does absolutely?
Speaker 1: You know what else works? Having fun? And I understand
Speaker 1: you've got a funny event coming.
Speaker 2: Up, fun event coming up?
Speaker 3: Well, I think I think we're referring to the United
Speaker 3: Ways Aloha after do yeah, indeed, and we are a
Speaker 3: United Way partner. And so July twenty six, six pm
Speaker 3: O Sage Casino tickets are on sale. I heard last
Speaker 3: week maybe that they were down to three tables, So
Speaker 3: if you want a table, you better call them up quick. Nice. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but United Way makes such a difference in this community
Speaker 3: and in our lives, in the lives of the people
Speaker 3: that come to elder Care, and we just are so
Speaker 3: thankful for their partnership.
Speaker 1: They're good, they're a lot of fun, but they also
Speaker 1: work very hard on behalf of everyone. Yeah, but also
Speaker 1: all the partnering.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: All you think about the nonprofits here in town and
Speaker 3: what they do, we could not do it without United Way,
Speaker 3: and Lisa and her team are incredible. They join your mission,
Speaker 3: They are hands on and we are thankful for that.
Speaker 1: Michael, We've got a lot of other things that go
Speaker 1: on out and Eldercare. That's the big green roof is
Speaker 1: how do you fit it all under?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know how we fit it all one roof,
Speaker 2: but you've.
Speaker 1: Got you've got everything from people who help you do
Speaker 1: a little therapy to doctors, the physical therapy.
Speaker 2: We've got a medical clinic.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: We literally had a pottery class on Monday evening that
Speaker 4: was open to the public.
Speaker 2: You know, you could.
Speaker 4: It was a a class you had to pay to
Speaker 4: be a part of unless unless you're a caregiver. That's right,
Speaker 4: it was your Your price was covered if you're a caregiver.
Speaker 4: We're we are ramping up all of the different events
Speaker 4: and activities that we have at Eldercare under the big
Speaker 4: green roof, as you say, so, we want want that
Speaker 4: to be a central hub in Bartlesville for people to
Speaker 4: come and find community, to come and find a new
Speaker 4: spark in life, and just to be very active. So
Speaker 4: we from we have gentle Yoga that happens twice a week.
Speaker 4: We have the caregiver support groups I mentioned, but we
Speaker 4: also have a monthly support group just for those who
Speaker 4: are dealing with Parkinson's or your loved ones dealing with Parkinson's.
Speaker 4: The number of things that we have going on are
Speaker 4: it's too many to count, it is, and we're.
Speaker 3: Only going to get bigger.
Speaker 2: It's only going to get bigger, yea.
Speaker 1: You know. One of the programs I had the privileged
Speaker 1: to be a part of was a thing simply called
Speaker 1: dinner with friends. Oh yeah, and you think to that,
Speaker 1: you know, like, well okay we'll go to dinner. Well
Speaker 1: all right, good, we'll go out. The elder Care always
Speaker 1: got good food out there and they got dinner in
Speaker 1: the show, and we had a lot of fun performance
Speaker 1: with Kevin Knowles, who were two guys with guitars she named.
Speaker 1: But but the thing was everybody had fun, and there
Speaker 1: were people who hadn't seen each other in a while,
Speaker 1: and you could say, oh wait across tables at each
Speaker 1: other and folks at you know, who were maybe neighbors
Speaker 1: sometime earlier in life. And it was just a great
Speaker 1: sense of community.
Speaker 3: It is and what a wonderful thing to experience to
Speaker 3: have a place to go and meet up with your friends,
Speaker 3: to have those conversations, enjoy a dinner here, wonderful programs, music,
Speaker 3: We have great providers. So we're just thankful for the
Speaker 3: community participation.
Speaker 1: This guy's great, he's got you got to you gotta
Speaker 1: put your.
Speaker 2: Good You think we got it.
Speaker 3: I've I've been mentioning that I tabble.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's in house. Come on, he's in house.
Speaker 3: It's part of the gig, right.
Speaker 4: Our next dinner to friends is August fifth. Actually, really
Speaker 4: there there will be something on Facebook this next week
Speaker 4: for folks to start signing up to be a part
Speaker 4: of that.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think, who are I think Jaselle Dobson, she.
Speaker 1: I knows you.
Speaker 4: So's she's our entertainment. She's grown up, she's our entertainment.
Speaker 4: That night and our own chef, chef Pam Beanguard will
Speaker 4: be again.
Speaker 2: Making the meal.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure what her menu is, but again that's
Speaker 4: gonna We're gonna put all that out on Facebook and
Speaker 4: do email blasts next week to start kicking that.
Speaker 1: You know, it stopped raining and started getting hot. Oh,
Speaker 1: we got a project, a cool, cool, cool room project.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we mentioned the United Way, and we
Speaker 4: can't do in Bartlesville. The United Way agencies and the
Speaker 4: nonprofits that they support. It's only possible because of what
Speaker 4: Bartlesville does.
Speaker 2: How Bartlesville supports the United Way.
Speaker 4: And so it is getting warmer, and we have what's
Speaker 4: called the Cool Room Project, and that's where we loan
Speaker 4: out a window air conditioning unit to someone who is
Speaker 4: aged six year older who is in need of that.
Speaker 4: Just a few qualifications. In order for you to get one.
Speaker 4: You have to have a one hundred and ten outlet,
Speaker 4: buy a window and a door to that room that
Speaker 4: will close so as the summer heat and up, muggy
Speaker 4: air starts piling on if you don't have central heating air,
Speaker 4: or you don't have a working window unit, you can
Speaker 4: have a cool room in your home and we just
Speaker 4: loan those out generally for the season. They come back
Speaker 4: in September ish. But here's our problem, Tom, We have
Speaker 4: a waiting list. We have people who need this relief
Speaker 4: right now, and for two hundred dollars, if someone were
Speaker 4: to donate two hundred dollars to elder Care, we could
Speaker 4: go out and buy a unit right now to have
Speaker 4: and start making up that waiting list. If you donate
Speaker 4: six hundred dollars, we're going to get three of them.
Speaker 4: If you have a working unit that's gently used and
Speaker 4: you know it's capable and you're not using it, absolutely
Speaker 4: donate that to us. We would love to do that
Speaker 4: because there are people who are in need and we
Speaker 4: want to help facilitate meeting that need. And I know
Speaker 4: our community is generous and giving and.
Speaker 2: If you could help with that, we would love it.
Speaker 4: And if you need help, I know there's a waiting list,
Speaker 4: but reach out because we are going to find a
Speaker 4: way to get more and more of those so that
Speaker 4: we can get those into your homes.
Speaker 1: And we're announcing this on the kickoff of the dog
Speaker 1: days or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're exactly right, only going to get hotter.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. I was told that once you turn
Speaker 1: the heat on down here, it sticks around to a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 4: We've been fortunate, it's been mild for the last eight weeks,
Speaker 4: but it is kicking in and it's we've had enough
Speaker 4: rain to lasts for the rest of the year, thank goodness.
Speaker 2: But that just means it's going.
Speaker 1: To be muggy. That's a miserable heat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and people need that cool room to stay healthy.
Speaker 3: It's not a luxury, it's a real need. And so
Speaker 3: we find people that are really struggle and like Michael said,
Speaker 3: they need to.
Speaker 2: Be able to close the door.
Speaker 3: Now if they can put up a curtain, you know,
Speaker 3: it doesn't have to be a wood door. But we
Speaker 3: want to help them make sure that they have a
Speaker 3: safe space and one that the air conditioner can efficiently cool.
Speaker 1: No, Christina, people have questions, So you just call you
Speaker 1: guys out, Just.
Speaker 3: Give us a call nine one, eight, three three, six
Speaker 3: eighty five hundred and.
Speaker 1: If you're going to drop one off, please call ahead.
Speaker 4: We had an individual about six weeks ago who just
Speaker 4: came by and said Hey, I bought three air conditioners
Speaker 4: that loads. Can I drop them off and absolutely drive
Speaker 4: round back Let's unload these. So do it help any
Speaker 4: way you can, and you know those who need it
Speaker 4: would be very grateful.
Speaker 3: What's your website at about eldercare dot org.
Speaker 1: All right, where can we find you?
Speaker 4: Twelve twenty three Swan drive the big green woof Just
Speaker 4: march on past tackle Bell, keep going south, you'll find
Speaker 4: us there you go.
Speaker 1: Come in cane. Thank you telling us about el