Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection and we have
Speaker 1: our friends in from Elder Garrett today and wow, we
Speaker 1: got a lot to go on today, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Michael Colaw is with us and also Deanna Donson is
Speaker 1: here with us today. How are you doing, young lady.
Speaker 2: I'm great.
Speaker 3: How are you well?
Speaker 2: Welcome aboard here.
Speaker 1: I think this is your first time to the chill room.
Speaker 3: It absolutely is.
Speaker 2: It's very cold.
Speaker 1: Don't let that thermostat fool you there holding the wall
Speaker 1: is seventy five degrees. The rest it's forty three.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, we're going to get things going.
Speaker 1: First things first here Benefits Enrollment Center. You've been busy,
Speaker 1: haven't you.
Speaker 3: I have been very busy.
Speaker 2: How busy have you been? I have been so busy.
Speaker 4: I have been helping people sign up for help with
Speaker 4: their Medicare premiums and for help with their part D premiums.
Speaker 4: And if you're on a fixed income, it can make
Speaker 4: a huge difference. It can save up to around two
Speaker 4: hundred a month depending on their income level, combined with
Speaker 4: their Medicare premium and their part DEEP premium. With the
Speaker 4: extra help, so it's really a great program.
Speaker 1: This is one of the best nice little additions that
Speaker 1: I think the elder care has had, and you have
Speaker 1: them constantly, but this one has really been taking the spotlight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just really helps so many people.
Speaker 1: Now a how do folks of you know get a
Speaker 1: hold of you to see you know, how this all
Speaker 1: works and how this fits. Imagine you have people with
Speaker 1: far more questions than anything else.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, yes, they can call me nine eight three three
Speaker 4: six eight five zero zero and I can talk with
Speaker 4: them on the phone, or they can make an appointment
Speaker 4: and come in speak with me and I can help
Speaker 4: them enroll.
Speaker 2: Well, that's great.
Speaker 1: You know something, when the government starts putting out the paperwork,
Speaker 1: do you assume everyone has a jurisd doctor.
Speaker 2: That's not the case, very.
Speaker 4: True, And in most of it's on line. So you know,
Speaker 4: some of our seniors are just not that tech savvy.
Speaker 4: I'm going to help them with that part as well.
Speaker 5: You know, we we started this just happened in the
Speaker 5: last few weeks.
Speaker 3: But we're going to partner with a Godey mission.
Speaker 5: Uh and so Deanna actually will go to a God
Speaker 5: Day mission. It's the first the last Friday of every
Speaker 5: month from eleven am to one point thirty. She will
Speaker 5: be at a god Day mission, you know during their
Speaker 5: when they're do that meal on a Friday, to help
Speaker 5: people to give them more information to connect them with
Speaker 5: the benefits Enrollment Center. So that's another you know, you
Speaker 5: can call this as Deanna said, but you can also
Speaker 5: go to a Gode mission. And so we're really grateful
Speaker 5: for that partnership that we're going to have with them
Speaker 5: to help people get these benefits that they need so much.
Speaker 1: That's a home run, Dianna. Yeah, home running, I think so,
Speaker 1: because there are a lot of books who probably didn't
Speaker 1: even know they had things coming right, Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: they were even eligible. Yeah, and you're going to see
Speaker 1: the oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Look books. Yeah.
Speaker 5: We we had a wonderful meeting yesterday with some of
Speaker 5: the leadership from Jane Phillips Medical Center, Ascension and their
Speaker 5: case she runs all their case management. When she heard
Speaker 5: about the enrollment center as well, she said, this is fantastic.
Speaker 3: We will start.
Speaker 5: Connecting people to you because they have so many individuals
Speaker 5: that you know, they're getting ready to discharge.
Speaker 3: Out of the hospital and they need that extra help.
Speaker 5: So we're making some great headway with fantastic partnerships with
Speaker 5: other wonderful institutions and organizations here in Bartlesfeld.
Speaker 1: It's great, my goodness saying this is going to be
Speaker 1: probably one of the biggest helping hand absolutely, I mean
Speaker 1: plural with everybody kind of joining in and they realize
Speaker 1: what you have and what they already bring to the table.
Speaker 1: These partnerships are going to pay off big dividends for
Speaker 1: our seniors.
Speaker 3: Yes, and that's the whole purpose.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that start very good stuff. Well, I think chaperones, Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you need one?
Speaker 3: Do I need one? It's I mean it's a sliding scale.
Speaker 5: Okay, right now I don't okay, but it's a sliding scale, Tom.
Speaker 2: But we do need volunteer chaperones.
Speaker 5: For you know, this is another program. So Deanna has
Speaker 5: been fourteen years at Eldercare, ten years at Eldercare.
Speaker 3: She's been working, like my god, she's been there. She's
Speaker 3: been there a long time.
Speaker 5: And we were fortunate this year to receive two different grants,
Speaker 5: one for that benefits Enrollment center and then the other
Speaker 5: will be this volunteer chaperone program. And I feel like,
Speaker 5: you know, getting these grants it's like yay, oh here, Deanna,
Speaker 5: here's some more things to put on your plate. But
Speaker 5: we are really we're in the midst of recruiting volunteers
Speaker 5: for this chaperone program.
Speaker 3: And so what that will be is, if you need a.
Speaker 5: Ride to the doctor's appointment, if you need a ride
Speaker 5: to an outpatient procedure and you live alone, you're an
Speaker 5: aging adult, you're a senior, and your family lives elsewhere,
Speaker 5: call us and we will help schedule a volunteer that
Speaker 5: will come. They will pick you up, they will take
Speaker 5: you to the appointment. They may go into the appointment
Speaker 5: with you to get discharge information or information from the
Speaker 5: doctor that then they can pass on to your family.
Speaker 5: So we are really recruiting volunteers right now. Every volunteer
Speaker 5: will go through CPR Basic Life Saving class that we
Speaker 5: will teach at elder Care because we have certified trainers,
Speaker 5: and then they will go through a specific training program
Speaker 5: for this volunteer chaperone program.
Speaker 3: So really we're going to Our plan.
Speaker 5: Is to pilot this program early October and then it
Speaker 5: will launch full steam ahead November first. And we already
Speaker 5: have individuals who have reached out to us and said
Speaker 5: I have something going on in December, Can I get
Speaker 5: a ride?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? So we've started a leak.
Speaker 5: So we would love to see, you know, a great
Speaker 5: group of twenty volunteers just for this program alone. We'd
Speaker 5: love to see twenty volunteers that we can rely on.
Speaker 5: And then we will begin with a lot of the
Speaker 5: individuals that Deanna serves in the case management area. We
Speaker 5: will begin by helping them, you know, get to an
Speaker 5: appointment that they need to. But if you're in the
Speaker 5: community and you need that assistance, call us reach out
Speaker 5: and we want to be that that help for you
Speaker 5: during that time.
Speaker 1: Great, great, Great, I'm going to go out up here
Speaker 1: a little to it because I do just say every
Speaker 1: now and then, all right, how are we doing on
Speaker 1: our air conditioners with Project cool Real?
Speaker 5: Let me tell you we just talked about that in
Speaker 5: our director's meeting yesterday.
Speaker 3: So right now we have put twenty.
Speaker 5: Five air conditioners out the door, which is more than
Speaker 5: last year. It's thirty four percent thirty three percent more
Speaker 5: than last year. I think last year we had sixteen
Speaker 5: or seventeen go out the door. We've had twenty five
Speaker 5: go out the door. The last one went out the
Speaker 5: door on Monday or Tuesday, I happened to be back
Speaker 5: in our facilities area and our director of facilities was
Speaker 5: loading one up and a truck for somebody. So we're out,
Speaker 5: which is fantastic. That's wonderful for the people in the
Speaker 5: community that we've been able to help. So we're gonna
Speaker 5: I mean, it's what is it, August sixth, and it's
Speaker 5: going to be one hundred and two today or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're in that street where it's one hundred by
Speaker 2: day eighty by night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a dry heat, though, Tom it's still a
Speaker 5: dangerous heat. And you know it's Oklahoma. We're going to
Speaker 5: have this into September. There's no question about it. That's
Speaker 5: the way it works.
Speaker 3: I'm grateful that we had a.
Speaker 5: Donation come in this week as well that will allow
Speaker 5: us to buy more air conditioning units to give out.
Speaker 3: But if anyone wants to donate to.
Speaker 5: The Cool Room Project, we will go buy more AC
Speaker 5: units and we will get those two more people it.
Speaker 5: You know, I think I mentioned to you earlier we
Speaker 5: went from a really rainy, kind of temperate summer.
Speaker 3: To just hot.
Speaker 5: We never had this enjoyable, like it's nice, I can
Speaker 5: sit outside on the evening.
Speaker 3: No, it's it's maybe a day or two in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, yeah, day and a half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not good ahead of ourselves. It's day and
Speaker 3: a half. No, it's uh.
Speaker 5: And I always appreciate that you have been a champion
Speaker 5: for that.
Speaker 3: Cool Room project.
Speaker 5: It's been fantastic, And like I said, we would take
Speaker 5: more donations. I think Mark, our facilities manager, said that
Speaker 5: when he went to Lowe's or he gave that last
Speaker 5: one out. He went to Low's and they were out
Speaker 5: of the units that we generally buy to loan. So
Speaker 5: that doesn't mean we can't get more. But if someone
Speaker 5: would like to participate by donating to that Cool Room project, man,
Speaker 5: we would. We would take you up on that.
Speaker 2: Oh, let's go do something. Fine at evening with Clay,
Speaker 2: he returned much.
Speaker 1: Really treated him well, feding good and had fun with him.
Speaker 2: Last time.
Speaker 5: Clay treated us really well. I hope he feels like
Speaker 5: we treated him well. You know, he he did agree
Speaker 5: to come back. We're very grateful that Bob Frasier, who's
Speaker 5: a member of the Border direct Eldercare, has a very
Speaker 5: very long standing relationship with Clay self, and so Bob's
Speaker 5: able to kind of twist his arm and no. But
Speaker 5: we are excited to have for the second year in
Speaker 5: a row a fall fundraiser at Eldercare or four Eldercare
Speaker 5: and we call it an Evening with Clay and Clay
Speaker 5: self is the house entertainment. He is the house musician
Speaker 5: for the Buzzard Bar in Ridgdale, Missouri. It's at Big
Speaker 5: Cedar Lodge, so just outside of Branson. Clay plays there,
Speaker 5: if I remember correctly, he plays there six nights a week.
Speaker 5: And yeah, he as a musician, Tom, you know what
Speaker 5: that's like. It's like, hey, you know four, it's pretty good. Yeah, six,
Speaker 5: I don't know. Yeah, he is playing every night except Sunday.
Speaker 5: And for him to get away and not be there
Speaker 5: for his standing gig at the Buzzard Bar is a
Speaker 5: big deal. It's hard and it's a big deal. And
Speaker 5: so he's going to be here Friday, October twenty third.
Speaker 5: We will be at the Center. We ran out of
Speaker 5: space where we were last year. We were at the
Speaker 5: Hillcrest and that was fantastic, but it was crowded, and
Speaker 5: so we have a little bit more space at the
Speaker 5: Center in the community room right when you walk in
Speaker 5: there on the.
Speaker 2: Left, and no visits from the fire Marshal.
Speaker 5: And exactly, we don't want any visits from eachc.
Speaker 3: So this is as I said.
Speaker 5: It's Friday, October twenty third, it begins at seven pm.
Speaker 5: And at this point in time, we are trying to
Speaker 5: find individuals, organizations, companies who would sponsor. So we have
Speaker 5: four sponsorship levels for twenty five hundred dollars. We're calling
Speaker 5: that the honky Tonk Headliner. That's going to get you
Speaker 5: a reserve table. And then at your table there's going
Speaker 5: to be either a bucket of two buckets of beer
Speaker 5: or a bucket of beer and a bottle of wine, whatever,
Speaker 5: what's a mix and match however you want it. And
Speaker 5: then all the premiere As far as marketing, we will
Speaker 5: list you on our poster, we will list you on
Speaker 5: our website, we'll do the radio commercials that we're going
Speaker 5: to do with you all. And and so that's the
Speaker 5: honky Tonk Headliner twenty five hundred for seventeen hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3: We call that one the two step table sponsor.
Speaker 5: Like yeah, yeah, these are all a little fun little
Speaker 5: honky Tonks for.
Speaker 2: One thousand, had fun coming up.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 2: You didn't.
Speaker 5: This is all yeah see, I mean this is why
Speaker 5: I need a chaperone, because you end up with names
Speaker 5: of sponsorships.
Speaker 3: Like this time.
Speaker 2: Until we got the two step table.
Speaker 5: Two step table, we got the chuck Wagon Chow for
Speaker 5: one thousand dollars, and then the Sasparilla Saloon sponsor for
Speaker 5: five hundred and then individual take us for one hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: So and that's all currently.
Speaker 5: You can buy all of that on our website at
Speaker 5: www dot about eldercare dot org, forward.
Speaker 3: Slash and evening, and.
Speaker 5: Then on there it gives all the information about those sponsorships.
Speaker 5: You can click another but and it takes you right
Speaker 5: where you could purchase that sponsorship and all the benefits
Speaker 5: that come with that.
Speaker 3: So you know, we're excited.
Speaker 5: You know, every dollar raised will go directly to the
Speaker 5: services at Eldercare, rather that be daybreak, adult day health,
Speaker 5: whether that be case management, client services, whether that's in home,
Speaker 5: whether that's the Active Center. The money raise will go
Speaker 5: directly to the services that help the agent adults. So
Speaker 5: I encourage people talk to your boss, talk to the owner,
Speaker 5: talk to the whoever at your church, your faith organization,
Speaker 5: whoever runs your rotary, say hey, we want to be
Speaker 5: a sponsor for this, and then we want to go
Speaker 5: support Eldercare and be a part of a fantastic fun
Speaker 5: evening in the community. Cash bar, heavy orders from the eatery.
Speaker 5: I'm telling you, it's a fun time. And Clay self
Speaker 5: is just such an entertainer. He's absolutely hilarious, a wonderful musician.
Speaker 5: And he brings a bass player and a fiddle player
Speaker 5: with him and they will take request. He's going to
Speaker 5: play songs that everybody's gonna know, whether that be a
Speaker 5: Hank Snow or Ernest tub or all the way to
Speaker 5: George Strait everything in between.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: And it's a lot of fun and people are gonna
Speaker 5: dance and clap and sing and laugh, and you're gonna
Speaker 5: spport eldercare.
Speaker 3: Way you do it.
Speaker 2: I love it. This is gonna be great. This is great.
Speaker 2: What's the website again?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, about eldercare dot org.
Speaker 2: That's easy to remember. I can't even remember that. There
Speaker 2: you go. I want to thank you both for being in.
Speaker 3: Here to thank you Tom.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you folks.
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