Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's
Speaker 1: time down for community connection right here on Kwanda one.
Speaker 1: You try to stand and we have Josh Lindblum and
Speaker 1: your problem by Eldercare. How are you doing there, doctor Josh?
Speaker 2: Good? How are you?
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, limber not too bad for sixty four
Speaker 1: and three quarters, you know, perfect, perfect, Now Eldercare, we
Speaker 1: want to straighten this out right now. This is not
Speaker 1: a place where you go to live. This is where
Speaker 1: you go so you can live independently your own home.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: So oftentimes that's how I start all of my community
Speaker 3: talks is ask that question, how many people live at
Speaker 3: Eldercare And the answer is zero, zero people live there.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Christina might say she lives there, My boss might say
Speaker 3: she lives here, but uh, but nobody lives there. Our
Speaker 3: goal has always been when it was from its inception,
Speaker 3: is to keep people happy and healthy in their own home,
Speaker 3: agent in place, whether that's in therapy or any of
Speaker 3: our other serve. So I think some people know of Eldercare,
Speaker 3: but they don't really know what we do.
Speaker 1: You do a lot of things, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of things under the Eldercare umbrella.
Speaker 3: Whether it's Foundation Therapy with me with PTOT and speech,
Speaker 3: or whether it's Deanna with case management her team, and
Speaker 3: they're they're going out into multiple counties and making sure
Speaker 3: people have services and the support they need to stay
Speaker 3: in their home and live happy and healthy in their
Speaker 3: own home. Whether it's Daybreak and Sheila, I think people
Speaker 3: have a misunderstanding of what Daybreak is. Sometimes let's spell
Speaker 3: it out for I think day Daybreak is fantastic adult
Speaker 3: day center.
Speaker 2: They do.
Speaker 3: It's not just a place that people go to sit.
Speaker 3: They do activities all day. They have two I think
Speaker 3: the morning is. I think they classify it as a snack,
Speaker 3: but it's more of a breakfast than I eat and
Speaker 3: a hot lunch. That's fantastic. They have a bus that
Speaker 3: will pick you up from your house. If you're living
Speaker 3: this in a location, it's fantastic. They keep people busy
Speaker 3: all day long and it provides the caregiver a little
Speaker 3: time to get things done that they need to get done.
Speaker 3: People can go for a day or five days a week.
Speaker 3: They can go for hours half a day. It's something
Speaker 3: that I think is it's one of the most cost
Speaker 3: effective ways to help people stay in their own home
Speaker 3: but still get the care that they need.
Speaker 1: You know, that daytime, watchful light. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily that these folks have fun.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I walked in the other day because sometimes we'll
Speaker 3: go work with some of their clients for physical therapy,
Speaker 3: so I'll go pick them up from the daybreak and
Speaker 3: they're playing horseshoes. They're having a crazy time. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I kind of wanted to stay. Honestly.
Speaker 1: The thing is with the daybreak, I understand this is
Speaker 1: where a lot of friendships sometimes get rekindled. Hey I
Speaker 1: haven't seen you in a while, and then a lot
Speaker 1: of times new friends.
Speaker 2: Absolutely new friends.
Speaker 3: So I mean sometimes just like just like anything, new
Speaker 3: people are a little hesitant, but after a week you
Speaker 3: see them their lights come on, they change and they.
Speaker 1: Look forward to it. So it's that connection exactly. You
Speaker 1: know that that's that's a cool thing. Now, Foundation Therapy. Now,
Speaker 1: before people start getting preconceived notions about this, uh, this
Speaker 1: is where you go to get better, and you get
Speaker 1: better in actually in pretty short order.
Speaker 2: In a lot of cases, we do our best. So yeah,
Speaker 2: we treat adults of all ages. So we have physical therapy, speech.
Speaker 3: And occupational therapy, and our occupational therapist is a hand specialist.
Speaker 3: So what we've seen over the last year is a
Speaker 3: lot of growth. So we're getting a lot more referrals
Speaker 3: and we're doing our best to keep up. I think
Speaker 3: that's that's not necessarily it's not a bad problem, but
Speaker 3: it's a problem nonetheless, so we're trying to solve it.
Speaker 3: We have a new therapist coming, a new full time
Speaker 3: physical therapist starting in September. Her name's Baylor Reese. She's
Speaker 3: been she was a student of ours a few years ago.
Speaker 3: I think her clients fell in love with her. We
Speaker 3: know what to expect. She's going to provide excellent care,
Speaker 3: so we're looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: Well, this is great now when it comes to foundation therapy,
Speaker 1: you mentioned this is a wide variety of ways where
Speaker 1: people can get help. But one of the things is
Speaker 1: is that you start feeling better, you start gaining your
Speaker 1: confidence back, and you're you're ready to be just a
Speaker 1: little bit more independent than you probably were a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago.
Speaker 3: You see people kind of open up there with the
Speaker 3: possibilities and the options in their life, kind of open up.
Speaker 3: When you provide support and you encourage them along their
Speaker 3: way and we get stronger everybody in everybody that's coming
Speaker 3: to therapy or even the people that that are coming
Speaker 3: to my gym after they get done with therapy, which
Speaker 3: is an aftercare program that can use the gym like
Speaker 3: a monthly membership. They're all working towards the same goal
Speaker 3: of being independent and healthy, and so it's kind of
Speaker 3: like and you see you see relationships for them in
Speaker 3: that group as well, people that when are you coming?
Speaker 3: You know, they show up at the same time because
Speaker 3: they want to work out and you know, talk with
Speaker 3: a friend.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it goes hand in hand. You know. The
Speaker 1: confidence factor is really kind of key because you know,
Speaker 1: every time someone's had an injury or maybe something has
Speaker 1: gone wrong, maybe they've had a surgery and they're trying
Speaker 1: to recover everything, the first hurdle is the confidence can
Speaker 1: I do this right? Should even be trying to.
Speaker 2: Be doing this right?
Speaker 3: To have someone guide you along that path to recovery
Speaker 3: in a way. You know, we're we are very lucky
Speaker 3: in how we practice one on one where we can
Speaker 3: actually spend the time with you where you don't feel
Speaker 3: like you're kind of on your own, even if you're
Speaker 3: at the clinics, so to answer your questions and help
Speaker 3: kind of nurture that confidence a little bit more.
Speaker 1: That's cool.
Speaker 2: That is really cool. You know.
Speaker 1: Elder care is a great blessing in our community. Been
Speaker 1: around for now going on forty one.
Speaker 3: Forty one years wow, which is really young because I'm
Speaker 3: forty one, so it's really young, really young, almost forty one.
Speaker 2: I don't tell my wife. I said, it.
Speaker 1: Just does two guys. But the thing is is that
Speaker 1: it's grown quite a bit, and like you said, you're
Speaker 1: ready to grow a little bit more by adding an
Speaker 1: extra therapist. Absolutely, and you know, always looking for different
Speaker 1: ways to be that resource more folks who wish stage
Speaker 1: in place. And you got a lot of people there
Speaker 1: that are pretty darn smart.
Speaker 2: That's our best.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you do.
Speaker 3: Another thing that I think will be beneficial that we're
Speaker 3: trying to add services are women's tell public floor physical therapy.
Speaker 3: Something we talked about last time I was here, and
Speaker 3: it's coming up. We're going to start that program by
Speaker 3: the end of the year, so it'll be It's a
Speaker 3: resource that I think is absolutely needed and doesn't have
Speaker 3: enough service available. Services available in Bartlesville. People are having
Speaker 3: to go to Awassa in Tulsa. So bringing back home
Speaker 3: is probably I think it'll be great for elder care,
Speaker 3: great for foundation, and great for Bartlesville.
Speaker 1: Un Let's facy. You really don't want to be riding
Speaker 1: in a car that long.
Speaker 2: I just don't. It's just not right, unnecessary, you know,
Speaker 2: it's unnecessary.
Speaker 1: Indeed, now with the speech therapy, I did, folks wonder, well,
Speaker 1: why would you need that? Well, every day someone has
Speaker 1: a stroke and oftentimes oftentimes your speech is appeared. There
Speaker 1: are other things that can interfect your speech as well
Speaker 1: other than a stroke.
Speaker 3: But absolutely, I mean she sees Abby, sees people post strokes, people.
Speaker 3: She has a class for folks with Parkinson's because sometimes
Speaker 3: their voice kind of is depleted over time. She sees
Speaker 3: people with early cognitive changes and tries to do assessments
Speaker 3: to a certain level on not not just doing memory games,
Speaker 3: but really making tangible solutions for their daily life that
Speaker 3: they can actually see things improve at home. So it
Speaker 3: takes a lot of caregiver involvement as well. If you're
Speaker 3: going to work with someone with say early dementia, to
Speaker 3: make changes at home that will help that patient thrive
Speaker 3: at home. And so she I mean speech therapy is
Speaker 3: a wide has a wide breath of what they can do.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: And she's the only one in Bartlesvielle that focuses on adults.
Speaker 3: So it's it's and she's she's incredible.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how she does it. I don't
Speaker 1: know with all those kids and everything else. It's like
Speaker 1: you're getting to fix the woman's got energy. But anyway,
Speaker 1: you've got a great group out there. You even have
Speaker 1: a clinic out there too. Nice folks.
Speaker 3: Absolutely uh HC of Southeast Kansas or HU of Oklahoma
Speaker 3: now has come and they have taken over our health clinic.
Speaker 3: Doctor Jerrold's still there, Doctor doctor McGee is there, Ronda
Speaker 3: Lion is there, and they've tripled their treatment rooms.
Speaker 2: So they're ready.
Speaker 3: They're ready for people, and it's it is fun to
Speaker 3: see when you walk into eldercare of a full clinic.
Speaker 3: It's it's good for it's good for Bartlesfield, it's good
Speaker 3: for us, and it's it's it's good for Eldercare as
Speaker 3: a whole.
Speaker 1: Now, let's try to make sure that we get everybody
Speaker 1: on board here. Is this just for senior citizens? Is clinic?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Absolutely not people of all ages. Yeah, wow, Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: a it's been an interesting switch to hear babies eldercare,
Speaker 3: but there are.
Speaker 2: It's fantastic.
Speaker 3: It's great because that that is not that we see,
Speaker 3: not that we work with babies, but we see people
Speaker 3: adults of all ages. So to have people of all
Speaker 3: ages walking in our building is great for us.
Speaker 1: Oh it is. It's got to be great. You got
Speaker 1: the beautiful building. You're right out there on.
Speaker 2: Swam right twelve to twenty three Swan Drive, big green roof,
Speaker 2: big green.
Speaker 1: Roof, a lot of bricks, plenty of parking.
Speaker 2: Not a nursing home.
Speaker 1: No no, but I tell you why. A lot of
Speaker 1: different areas here in which to get to help and
Speaker 1: find resources and everything. You guys even have a really nice.
Speaker 2: What you.
Speaker 1: Banquet room would what I would call that, or perhaps perhaf,
Speaker 1: but just a big meeting rooms. Got a little stage
Speaker 1: on it there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we call the dining room. But we've been hosting room. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we've been because that's where our daybreak participants eat lunch.
Speaker 3: So they eat in a real dining situation.
Speaker 1: That top that looks like a nice there's a.
Speaker 3: Commercial kitchen in the back of elder care, which is fantastic,
Speaker 3: but we host a lot like yesterday, we host a
Speaker 3: tech talk. You know people that were people are having
Speaker 3: trouble with their technology, whether it's their phone or the
Speaker 3: ripad or whatever, having questions. And that was a packed
Speaker 3: house in that room. You've seen the room and it's
Speaker 3: there's eight A lot of people in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I should have been there, Josh.
Speaker 2: I probably should have been there too.
Speaker 1: I got a phone. I thought all you did was
Speaker 1: make calls on it does everything and sometimes I just
Speaker 1: don't know. I just don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll reserve you as a seat next time.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I feel better already. How do we get
Speaker 1: a hold of you out there?
Speaker 3: You can call our main line at nine one eight
Speaker 3: three three six eighty five hundred and if you want
Speaker 3: to call a Foundation therapy directly, it's nine one eight
Speaker 3: seven six six zero.
Speaker 2: Three nine to one. Josh for being with me, I
Speaker 2: appreciate the time. Thank you,