Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2: It is time now for our community can action right
Speaker 2: here on K one, the one you trust, and it's
Speaker 2: a thirty three and joining us from Eldercare. Jennifer Ennis,
Speaker 2: how are you, Oh, a wonderful time?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 2: Well? You know what, it's a beautiful day today, and
Speaker 2: you know it always is about this time of year.
Speaker 2: I mean, just love the fall. But you know something,
Speaker 2: we've got some great things coming up here because we're
Speaker 2: Halloween's past, Thanksgiving coming, Christmas is on the way, and
Speaker 2: we've got tons going on. First things first, there are
Speaker 2: folks who are entering Medicare, maybe some for the first time,
Speaker 2: others get need a refresher on this. But Eldercare provides
Speaker 2: great services by appointment to kind of.
Speaker 1: Clear the clutter.
Speaker 3: We vision.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it can be so confusing for like you said,
Speaker 4: for those coming into medicare, those who have been on
Speaker 4: it for a while.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of information out there.
Speaker 4: You probably are getting a ton of if you're at
Speaker 4: that age, you're getting lots of emails or maybe you're
Speaker 4: getting physical mail, and so it can be confusing.
Speaker 3: So what we do is we always kind of make
Speaker 3: sure we have some staff on site that.
Speaker 4: Are trained and kind of understand the process and can
Speaker 4: answer some of those questions. And one of our things
Speaker 4: that we're doing right now is Medicare party appointments, and
Speaker 4: so that can be confusing for some people and they're like,
Speaker 4: is this about my whole plan?
Speaker 3: What is this? What do you mean? And what we
Speaker 3: mean is your prescription drug plan.
Speaker 4: So open enrollment for that is always October fifteenth through
Speaker 4: December seventh, and so what everyone should do is say, hey,
Speaker 4: I need to go in and if I have a
Speaker 4: drug plan, I need to look at it and make
Speaker 4: sure it's.
Speaker 3: Still works for me.
Speaker 4: So every year, if hopefully it's not a surprise, insurance
Speaker 4: companies formularies are going to change, so what they're covering,
Speaker 4: how they're covering certain prescriptions are going to change, and
Speaker 4: what you may have had last.
Speaker 3: Year could be different with that company.
Speaker 4: And so it's important to say, Okay, here are all
Speaker 4: maybe the medications I'm on. Does that company I had
Speaker 4: last year still cover it the way it did?
Speaker 3: Has that changed?
Speaker 4: Is there a better option for me with moving to
Speaker 4: a different company? What would that look like? How does
Speaker 4: my out of pocket going to feel we're all a
Speaker 4: little worried about our pocketbook, and we're also worried about
Speaker 4: access and making sure we have what we need. And
Speaker 4: so you can call us and make an appointment to
Speaker 4: come see one of our counselors and we will help
Speaker 4: you go through your medication list, get it into the
Speaker 4: website and show you what your options are for the
Speaker 4: best coverage for your drug prescriptions for next year. And
Speaker 4: then if you say, hey, I love this, it's going
Speaker 4: to save you money or they're going to cover more
Speaker 4: than I was getting covered and you need to make
Speaker 4: a switch, we can kind of help you walk through
Speaker 4: what the how do you do that?
Speaker 3: How do you make that switch so.
Speaker 4: That you're ready to go when that period closes and
Speaker 4: you are are you know, set for twenty twenty five
Speaker 4: And so we always recommend get look at that every
Speaker 4: year because you will be surprised sometimes that maybe a
Speaker 4: prescription that was covered under a certain plan is not
Speaker 4: covered the next year or not covered at the same
Speaker 4: way that it was covered, and you may need to
Speaker 4: move in order to make sure that things you need.
Speaker 3: Are really your best option.
Speaker 1: Got it?
Speaker 4: Those costs nothing? Tom like no many to come th
Speaker 4: that they are free. There's just one stipulation, which is
Speaker 4: you can't walk in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to make an appointment.
Speaker 4: We would, and so those appointments happen on Tuesday, Wednesday
Speaker 4: and Thursday, so we have three.
Speaker 3: Days a week we can make you an appointment. All
Speaker 3: you have to do is give us a call.
Speaker 4: A launda at our front desk will take your information
Speaker 4: get you an appointment made. Then what we do is
Speaker 4: we send you out a packet in the mail to
Speaker 4: fill out, so you kind of have all that stuff
Speaker 4: ready to go when you come in.
Speaker 3: Makes a little easier.
Speaker 4: You can mail it back to us or bring it
Speaker 4: with you and then we sit down and answer all
Speaker 4: your questions.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you.
Speaker 3: So we do have appointments open still they fill it
Speaker 3: really quickly.
Speaker 1: So how do we get a hold of you there
Speaker 1: and a elder care?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can call us at nine one eight three,
Speaker 4: three six eight five zero zero.
Speaker 3: Doesn't mean you can stop by too if you want to.
Speaker 3: And so if you.
Speaker 4: Happen to be over at Walmart and you're like, hey,
Speaker 4: it's time to time to make that appointment, you can
Speaker 4: just drive right around the corner to twelve twenty three
Speaker 4: Swan Drive come walk in and want it and help
Speaker 4: you that way too, But we'd love to get appointments
Speaker 4: for you kind of help demystify some of the questions
Speaker 4: that you might have and what does this mean and
Speaker 4: how is it changing?
Speaker 3: And honestly, what is my what is my.
Speaker 4: Pocketbook going to look like next year with my prescriptions
Speaker 4: and can help you get a picture for what that
Speaker 4: might look like.
Speaker 2: Very good. We also have a thing that with a Daybreak. Now,
Speaker 2: Daybreak is a wonderful thing for folks who just really
Speaker 2: kind of hang out and have fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely so Daybreak it's our activity center for adults,
Speaker 4: so people come throughout the day to do all kinds
Speaker 4: of activities. They'll get breakfast, lunch, and a snack. We
Speaker 4: can help with medication, So if you come with us
Speaker 4: and you have medication you need for the day, we
Speaker 4: help administer that while you're there, so you don't have
Speaker 4: to worry that you're not going to be at home
Speaker 4: for what you might need. And so it's a wonderful program.
Speaker 4: In fact, I just have to kind of backtrack. We're
Speaker 4: gonna go back to the Halloween comment that you made. Okay,
Speaker 4: we decorated our entire building for Halloween and our Daybreak
Speaker 4: program won that decorating contest nice and it did a
Speaker 4: phenomenal job rating their entire hallway like the hocus Pocus movie,
Speaker 4: kind of from the beginning of it all the way
Speaker 4: to the end. And so those are the kind of
Speaker 4: things that kind of the cool kids.
Speaker 3: They are kind of the cool kids.
Speaker 4: We're trying really hard to all match up to the
Speaker 4: cool kids.
Speaker 3: But it's a really fun place to come.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, well, very good and Daybreak Services.
Speaker 2: Just make sure you go to the website about thecare
Speaker 2: dot com or give a call and you'll answer just
Speaker 2: any question you got.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Tom, let me tell you about something that's
Speaker 4: going to happen over in Daybreak.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes you were. You kind of gave me a
Speaker 2: little bit of the secret, but we got to share
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 4: We do gotta have to share it with it. So,
Speaker 4: as you mentioned, it's a wonderful time of year. We've
Speaker 4: pollowing his past. Thanksgiving is coming, I'm ready for some turkey,
Speaker 4: but Christmas is going to be knocking on our door
Speaker 4: before before you know it. And sometimes are our Daybreak
Speaker 4: participants when they kind to us, we love to shower
Speaker 4: them and make sure that we all have this really
Speaker 4: wonderful holiday experience, and so our community will have an
Speaker 4: opportunity to kind.
Speaker 3: Of come in and be Santas Helper with us.
Speaker 4: And what this means is in our lobby starting on
Speaker 4: the eleven, so that should be Monday, there's gonna be
Speaker 4: a table out and it's gonna have some stockings, and
Speaker 4: with those stockings is kind of a list of suggested
Speaker 4: things to purchase to fill that stocking full of goodies.
Speaker 4: And so that stocking could have socks, maybe.
Speaker 3: It's got puzzle games.
Speaker 4: Maybe you're talking about some slippers or some gloves, just
Speaker 4: some things. We're gonna give some ideas of what you
Speaker 4: could maybe put in this shop. And the goal is
Speaker 4: to kind of come in, take a stocking, fill it full,
Speaker 4: bring it back to us, and then we're going to
Speaker 4: use those as gifts for our participants in Daybreak and
Speaker 4: some of our other clients who you know, we think
Speaker 4: we can lift some spirits year, and so we're just
Speaker 4: gonna encourage you, if you'd like to be sant As
Speaker 4: a little Helper this year, to come buy our building,
Speaker 4: check out our stockings, pick one up, fill it.
Speaker 3: Up with some goodies.
Speaker 4: So we provide that stocking for you. You don't have to
Speaker 4: try and go find a stocking or anything.
Speaker 1: Remember the walmarts right around the card.
Speaker 4: There is and there's lots of wonderful small businesses in town.
Speaker 1: Visit them too, Visit them.
Speaker 4: So, I mean, when you look at the suggested goodie idea,
Speaker 4: it is just a suggestion. But like cocoa packets or
Speaker 4: stress balls or fun little treats, do you know how
Speaker 4: many small businesses have those delicious maybe some nuts or
Speaker 4: chap cloths. They have wonderful little gift things that maybe
Speaker 4: you kind of peruse around and you're like, hey, it's
Speaker 4: not on the list, but this would be really really great.
Speaker 3: And so idea starters, Idea starters. That's absolutely true.
Speaker 4: And then we just asked that if you take a
Speaker 4: stocking for one of our our little our being a
Speaker 4: scant As Helper, that you get it back to us
Speaker 4: by December, and that gives us time to kind of
Speaker 4: get it all organized make sure that we can deliver
Speaker 4: before Christmas.
Speaker 3: But we're really excited.
Speaker 4: We've we've had some really wonderful community support where we've
Speaker 4: had years where people drop off gloves and hats and
Speaker 4: all kinds of things for our participants in clients, and
Speaker 4: so this year we're just kind of focusing in a
Speaker 4: little bit so give some more suggestions and kind of
Speaker 4: make it a little easier because we get some calls
Speaker 4: and say, how can we help? Is there something we
Speaker 4: can do? And so if you want to be seeing
Speaker 4: as helper, we encourage you to come on by or
Speaker 4: give us a call.
Speaker 3: Again. That's nine pin eight three three six eight five
Speaker 3: zero zero, and we.
Speaker 4: Got to walk you through that process and come Monday
Speaker 4: you can pick up us stocking and make someone's spirits fright.
Speaker 1: Very good, very good.
Speaker 2: Well, I tell you one thing that's going to be
Speaker 2: a spirit brightener is a blitzen Bingo that's coming up here.
Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit.
Speaker 3: About that glitzen Vingo.
Speaker 4: All right, So our goal is always to kind of
Speaker 4: think about how.
Speaker 3: We can connect with people. And so I don't know,
Speaker 3: some of.
Speaker 4: Us have big families, some of us have lots of
Speaker 4: connections and lots of things.
Speaker 3: We know.
Speaker 4: What is going on in our holiday series is sometimes
Speaker 4: we're kind of looking for ways that we can be
Speaker 4: with our neighbors and be with our friends and family.
Speaker 4: And so blitz and Bingo is a fundraiser for elder care.
Speaker 3: So it is a fundraiser.
Speaker 4: We always like to say that you're going to help
Speaker 4: raise funds for our programs. But what you're gonna do
Speaker 4: is you'll purchase a ticket. That ticket's gonna include three
Speaker 4: Bingo cards and in those we're gonna play music bingo
Speaker 4: right here with the radio.
Speaker 1: Station all right right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, KYFM, and we're gonna stream holiday music bingo.
Speaker 1: Oh how fun is that? Yeah, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a blast.
Speaker 3: It is gonna be a get the whole family.
Speaker 4: Get the whole family involved. You can do it from
Speaker 4: the comfort of your home. That way, Sunday evening, December eighth,
Speaker 4: at six o'clock.
Speaker 3: You don't have to go out anymore. You can put
Speaker 3: your slippers on.
Speaker 4: You can take a cup of cheer that comes with
Speaker 4: your Bingo card, and that's gonna be a cup of
Speaker 4: hot cocoa that we're providing for.
Speaker 3: You to enjoy during the event. You'll be able to
Speaker 3: get you in the mood. You're gonna sit there. You
Speaker 3: can tune your radio in to the right station.
Speaker 4: I know you guys have an app to listen to it,
Speaker 4: and just take two hours to slow down listen to
Speaker 4: some great Christmas music, have some fun, raise some money.
Speaker 3: For a great cause. Do you think people know what
Speaker 3: music bingo is?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you're quite familiar with it. I always
Speaker 1: a lot of well, yeah, a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: So for those listeners who maybe don't know what it
Speaker 4: is is, We're not gonna call normal Bingo numbers.
Speaker 3: There's no there's no be nine coming your way.
Speaker 4: What we're gonna do is play fifteen twenty seconds of
Speaker 4: a holiday song and you're trying to guess what that
Speaker 4: song is, and if that song is on your Bingo card,
Speaker 4: that's how you market. So it's kind of a surprise
Speaker 4: a little bit. You have to know if you know
Speaker 4: the song. If you don't, you have to maybe google
Speaker 4: it or well it's one of those gaps.
Speaker 2: You have fun, you get to use the great matter
Speaker 2: and you help raise money for elder care and the
Speaker 2: whole thing is just fun.
Speaker 1: It is goes back to the basic it's fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So we're just encouraging everyone, get your friends together, make
Speaker 4: a listening party at your home on a Sunday evening.
Speaker 4: Maybe you have a family member who you know won't
Speaker 4: be able to come over, you.
Speaker 3: Can do it. Simultaneously. You can do it.
Speaker 4: You get the cards, well, you purchase them, and then
Speaker 4: you're going to pick them up at Eldercare the week
Speaker 4: before the event. So the first week of December, you'll
Speaker 4: come by Eldercare and anything you purchase, we will have
Speaker 4: your name on it right there.
Speaker 3: You'll have it right there.
Speaker 4: There's gonna be rules inside of it, so you know,
Speaker 4: just in case you forgot how it works, you'll know
Speaker 4: how it works. You'll have kind of an idea of
Speaker 4: how the game's gonna work. And then you'll go home
Speaker 4: and just tune in on to say number eighth at
Speaker 4: six pm.
Speaker 1: Wow, that sounds great. Eldercare. How do we find you
Speaker 1: on the world Wide Web?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you're gonna visit about eldercare dot org. You're
Speaker 4: gonna find out resources about all of our programs on there.
Speaker 4: You're gonna find a link to the Blitzen Bingo, and
Speaker 4: you can purchase tickets online. There are gonna be posters
Speaker 4: here around town. Shortly you can scan that QR code
Speaker 4: and purchase right online. You can also find our events calendar,
Speaker 4: extra resources.
Speaker 3: It's a great way to kind of get to know us.
Speaker 4: If you've never you don't know much about us, you
Speaker 4: can peruse our website again it's about Eldercare, so you
Speaker 4: can learn about Eldercare.
Speaker 3: I see what you did, we know exactly what we did.
Speaker 4: Or give us a call at nine one, eight three
Speaker 4: three six eight five zero zero.
Speaker 3: We're a very chatty bench.
Speaker 1: So it's good. It's all good.
Speaker 2: It is all good, Jennifer, thank you for coming in today,
Speaker 2: Thank you for sharing all this great information about Eldercare. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 2: what one thing before, really, folks, Eldercare is not a
Speaker 2: residential facility.
Speaker 1: Now, no, we do quite the opposite.
Speaker 3: We do so no one lives with us at elder Care.
Speaker 4: All of our services are targeted up making the aging
Speaker 4: process easier, and so we're there to support seniors and
Speaker 4: those who in that aging process for physical therapy. An
Speaker 4: adult day health center, so we say day center because
Speaker 4: you're just gonna come eight to five, you're not gonna neither.
Speaker 4: Every night we come into your home and we help
Speaker 4: in your home, whether it's through case management or housekeeping.
Speaker 3: And then our biggest thing is we provide resources.
Speaker 4: So it is that phone call to say I don't
Speaker 4: know where to start, or I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 4: Can you give give us some information and we'll talk
Speaker 4: with you and make sure that you know your questions
Speaker 4: are answered, or connect you to the resources you might need.
Speaker 2: If it's not us, very very good, Thank you Jennifer
Speaker 2: for coming in.
Speaker 3: You're welcome. Tom