Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time down for our community connection on K one,
Speaker 1: the one you trust, and from Eldercare. We have Michael
Speaker 1: Kohlaw with us here today. Hey, doing young.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm doing very well. How about you, Tom?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm doing really good compared yesterday. It's
Speaker 1: not as busy around here, but that is not three
Speaker 1: tornadoes dancing around here either. But we do have so
Speaker 1: much needed brain. But on top of that, we've got
Speaker 1: some big things going on at Eldercare. I don't even
Speaker 1: know where to start, so I'm gonna let you do that.
Speaker 2: Well, we do have a lot of big things and
Speaker 2: great things happening in Eldercare. I'll say this. The most
Speaker 2: recent exciting news that we have is Sheila Tucker, who's
Speaker 2: been with Eldercare since I believe twenty twenty two. She
Speaker 2: was recently named the director of Daybreak. She had been
Speaker 2: the associate director for some time and so she received
Speaker 2: her long term care administration license and because of that
Speaker 2: she has now moved into the director position for Daybreak.
Speaker 2: She's a certified dementia practitioner. She's a fit Minds caregiver coach.
Speaker 2: Sheila and her staff do such a fantastic job with
Speaker 2: running our adult day activity program, Daybreak, which is the
Speaker 2: flagship program for Eldercare. So we're really excited to have
Speaker 2: Sheila in that position and to see the growth that
Speaker 2: we have. Our census with Daybreak is continuing to grow,
Speaker 2: so we are providing more care to aging adults and
Speaker 2: then really providing that respite for the caregiver, which leads
Speaker 2: me to really we're so excited about We have two
Speaker 2: caregiver support groups out of Eldercare right now. We have
Speaker 2: every Tuesday, which we call our traditional caregiver support group.
Speaker 2: It's facilitated every week by Jonie Elmore. Everybody knows and
Speaker 2: loves Joni. She's fantastic in helping us with that and
Speaker 2: she's getting out in the community as well and being
Speaker 2: a liaison for us. But that is a it's a
Speaker 2: more structured caregiver support group on Tuesday mornings. There's topics
Speaker 2: that Jonie will bring and walk through these topics with
Speaker 2: those in attendance, and then every month as well, she'll
Speaker 2: bring in a guest who will come someone with expertise.
Speaker 2: We've had Larry Cowan we've had. Yeah, he's been fantastic,
Speaker 2: was so well received. Tammy Schmidt, who is a chaplain
Speaker 2: hospital chaplain, has come and shared will have one of
Speaker 2: the physical therapists or she's actually speech therapist with elder
Speaker 2: Care with Foundation. Abby Peterman is going to come as
Speaker 2: well and speak. So it's that Tuesday caregiver support group
Speaker 2: is growing and we want anyone who is a caregiver
Speaker 2: to know that that is there for you to come
Speaker 2: and find support and encouragement and gain knowledge. So that's
Speaker 2: every Tuesday at ten. But with Shila becoming the director
Speaker 2: of Daybreak, and we've recently talked about a grant that
Speaker 2: we received from OHS specifically for respite and to be
Speaker 2: more intentional and to be more creative with how we
Speaker 2: provide respite for caregivers, we have started what is called
Speaker 2: the Open Door Cafe. Open Door Cathay is a weekly
Speaker 2: caregiver support group. It's on Tuesday. I'm sorry, it's on Thursdays,
Speaker 2: so today's Thursday. It will begin at ten o'clock this morning.
Speaker 2: It's ten to eleven thirty. It's come and go. You
Speaker 2: do not have to RSVP. You can just show up
Speaker 2: and there's no agenda. It's just come and be encouraged
Speaker 2: with other caregivers. What's unique about this is we encourage
Speaker 2: you as well to bring your loved one. If you're
Speaker 2: caring for someone with dementia or Alzheimer's or just general aging,
Speaker 2: bring them with you because they can participate in the
Speaker 2: cafe setting. But then our classroom that we have right
Speaker 2: next door, and it's literally an open door that goes
Speaker 2: to that classroom that is open. Sheila and her staff
Speaker 2: will be in there and provide activities for those And
Speaker 2: this would be the third week of the open door cafe.
Speaker 2: Today will be We saw such a huge growth from
Speaker 2: week one to week two, and while I was there
Speaker 2: last week, it was encouraging. It was encouraging to see
Speaker 2: caregivers find community, and it was encouraging to see caregivers
Speaker 2: bring their loved one with them and see them interacting
Speaker 2: with our staff and with other individuals. And it's such
Speaker 2: a fantastic opportunity that we have to show care and
Speaker 2: love to our community and then just to bring that
Speaker 2: respite to the caregiver. So a lot of great things
Speaker 2: going on with that. We're going to have, or we
Speaker 2: already do have activity kits that will send home with individuals,
Speaker 2: snack packages that we'll send home with individuals. This is
Speaker 2: all part of the grant from OHS that's allowing us
Speaker 2: to do that. So a lot on caregiver support and daybreak,
Speaker 2: but that's where we've got some super exciting things happening
Speaker 2: at elder care.
Speaker 1: Sounds like it really sounds like, and I think you're
Speaker 1: going to go home to a house full.
Speaker 2: Well absolutely, yeah, I think it will be. We encourage
Speaker 2: anyone to come and I'm excited to get back over
Speaker 2: there and see what's going on. And then I have
Speaker 2: to head to Bahusca. Well I'm going to go talk
Speaker 2: about a little thing called The Good, the Bad, and
Speaker 2: the Barbecue.
Speaker 1: Oaks of Basca love barbecue.
Speaker 2: They love barbecue. So our fundraiser is coming up May tenth.
Speaker 2: We are what's today, April third, So we're talking six weeks,
Speaker 2: five weeks away from the best fundraiser, the best event
Speaker 2: that you could ever imagine being a part of. Yes,
Speaker 2: so May tenth is it is the best, by far,
Speaker 2: the best tasting fundraiser. So we will have our twenty
Speaker 2: seventh annual The Good, the Bad and the Barbecue on
Speaker 2: May tenth. It's out at Huge Ranch. So if you're
Speaker 2: leaving Bartlesville going towards Woollar Rock, you can't miss Hughes
Speaker 2: Ranch right before the bridge you're going to turn west.
Speaker 2: And it's a fantastic event. So our tickets are on
Speaker 2: sale on our website which is www. Dot About, Eldercare,
Speaker 2: dot org, forward slash BBQ, and so you can go
Speaker 2: there and buy tickets and you have the opportunity to
Speaker 2: buy a ticket, you can buy a table, or you
Speaker 2: can buy the VIP ticket, so I can break those
Speaker 2: down tickets one hundred dollars and that's going to get
Speaker 2: you in for the evening and that's going to be
Speaker 2: the dinner with Dinks, which is fantastic. We're going to
Speaker 2: have our live in silent auction, which we have such
Speaker 2: amazing packages that are put together. We have a generous
Speaker 2: community that donates things for us to put in our
Speaker 2: live and silent auction. Our live auctioneer he is he
Speaker 2: puts on a show up there and he will definitely
Speaker 2: make you want to bid on some of these items.
Speaker 2: And then we've got Luke Christiansen, who is a Pahuskan
Speaker 2: native plays music. He is such a fantastic musician, he
Speaker 2: plays in Bartlesville. He plays at the casinos around. Go
Speaker 2: find him on Spotify and listen to his music. Luke
Speaker 2: is gonna come with his band and they're going to
Speaker 2: play some music for us. So that's one hundred dollars
Speaker 2: for a ticket. A reserved table is one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: I mean, what better way to treat your friends and
Speaker 2: family and business partners than to buy a table and
Speaker 2: invite him to this event. And then the VIP is
Speaker 2: the Patron Party, and that's a five hundred dollars ticket.
Speaker 2: So the Patron Party gets you in. At four point thirty.
Speaker 2: You can go through the ranch House at Hughes Ranch,
Speaker 2: take a little tour and you'll see where they if
Speaker 2: we've seen in the Examiner, they've just finished filming a
Speaker 2: television show out there in the ranch House. So that
Speaker 2: new TV show was filmed out there, and so you
Speaker 2: can walk around the ranch House and check it out.
Speaker 2: That Patron Party is catered by the Eatery and fantastic
Speaker 2: food and wine and beer and cocktails. And then just
Speaker 2: head on down to the big white tent for the barbecue,
Speaker 2: which is it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: It always is.
Speaker 2: I tell you. And as for a great cause. At
Speaker 2: the end of the day, we need community partners to
Speaker 2: come alongside us and help us raise the necessary funds
Speaker 2: to be a resource to this community, to aging adults.
Speaker 2: And this is a great way for people to come
Speaker 2: and get excited about the barbecue.
Speaker 1: Oh indeed, quite like you said, you got a great auction,
Speaker 1: both silent and woud. Yes, you got some great music.
Speaker 1: That's not so silent. No, it's fact. It's strong, good yea.
Speaker 1: And of course the most delicious food God ever made.
Speaker 2: Tell you what, it's hard to beat dinks.
Speaker 1: It's hard. You can't. I can't anyway. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a great night. It always is. Now. I
Speaker 1: was only out there one time when we had a
Speaker 1: little inclement weather. But you know what, it had been
Speaker 1: so hot that day when it sprinkled at the tail end,
Speaker 1: and it only sprinkled. There are people running out of
Speaker 1: the tent going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'll tell you, we say, and our tickets
Speaker 2: will say everything you see it says rain or shine.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we do this and uh, you know last
Speaker 2: year the barn Store Barnsdall tornado, which then came to Bartlesville.
Speaker 2: That was about four days before the barbecue, and it's
Speaker 2: we still had the the event and we will have
Speaker 2: it rain or shine, Yeah, we will have anyway.
Speaker 1: It's it's always great. It's a lot of fun. And
Speaker 1: this is a great way to you know, run into
Speaker 1: your friends or maybe even folks you do business with,
Speaker 1: to do a little networking out there. Nobody's gonna notice,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna that's But the thing is you might come
Speaker 1: home with something really cool from that auction. Well usually
Speaker 1: you do.
Speaker 2: And it is the Saturday before Mother's Day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's say it.
Speaker 2: Just buy something for mom for your wife at that auction.
Speaker 2: She'll thank you later.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you bet you, you bet you. Once again,
Speaker 1: we get the tickets right there at the about eldercare
Speaker 1: dot org website. Yes, and of course you can find
Speaker 1: out about all the amazing programs that you have at
Speaker 1: Eldercare at the very same website too, by the way,
Speaker 1: that's very easy to navigate.
Speaker 2: Good, that's good to know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know this is coming from a fellow for
Speaker 1: who's in the mid or sixty and you know, playing
Speaker 1: on the computer and sometimes you know, a little bit
Speaker 1: more time than what I want to spend. But This
Speaker 1: gets me where I want to go, and it gets
Speaker 1: me there fast, and it's quick and easy to understand too,
Speaker 1: So it's well done. Whoever's in charge of that, that's.
Speaker 2: Off, well, we're there's a lot of hands that help
Speaker 2: make that.
Speaker 1: Let's all right, Okay, we'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 1: Go team, And if we want to find out more
Speaker 1: about the rest pit care, both the Tuesday and Thursday offerings,
Speaker 1: can we find it there too.
Speaker 2: Yes, you can go to the website and uh, there's
Speaker 2: an there's a page specifically about the caregiver support. You
Speaker 2: could also just call us nine one eight three three
Speaker 2: six eighty five hundred. Phone works just fine. You can
Speaker 2: you can ask to speak with me. You can. They
Speaker 2: can let you know at the front desk as well,
Speaker 2: web or phone. Just if you want your questions answered,
Speaker 2: just reach out and we'll be happy to help.
Speaker 1: Now, tell everybody where you located.
Speaker 2: So we're located at twelve twenty three Swan Drive. So
Speaker 2: if you know where Walmart is, which is Green Country
Speaker 2: Village is right across the street, then you just keep
Speaker 2: turning south se roof. We've got a gigantic green roof
Speaker 2: and great facility. I'm happy to give anyone a tour.
Speaker 2: Everyone who I have been fortunate enough to give a tour,
Speaker 2: they always say, well, how many people live here? And
Speaker 2: we go, oh, there, we don't have residents. We're here
Speaker 2: to help you age in place with dignity and independently
Speaker 2: as long as possible. And so that's why we exist.
Speaker 1: The only things that reside out there Foundation Therapy, found
Speaker 1: and the clinic and they don't live there, but I
Speaker 1: mean they have their offices there sure, and they're there
Speaker 1: to help you too.
Speaker 2: Between Foundation Therapy, which is our physical therapy department, we
Speaker 2: have our partnership with chc OK, which is a healthcare
Speaker 2: clinic with two doctors and a PA. They have on
Speaker 2: site lab, they have on site pharmacy as well. At
Speaker 2: that our daybreak is there, and then our in home
Speaker 2: services and our case management services all happen. You know,
Speaker 2: if you think of Eldercare, Eldercare is the big umbrella,
Speaker 2: but underneath it there none of those organizations, which there
Speaker 2: are organizations, but none of those services could exist without
Speaker 2: the umbrella of Eldercare being there first. So to give
Speaker 2: the quality one on one physical therapy care that you
Speaker 2: get with Foundation that doesn't happen outside of the umbrella
Speaker 2: of Eldercare, our in home services, our case management, chc
Speaker 2: OKA Daybreak. It's just a it's a fantastic family of organizations.
Speaker 2: I hate to say the word organizations because Eldercare is
Speaker 2: the organization, but it's a fantastic group that help, group
Speaker 2: of help, and that's what we are. We are the
Speaker 2: resource for for Northeast Oklahoma for aging services and it's
Speaker 2: it's it's exciting to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: You're about ready to bust your buttons. You so, braud,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Tell you what, folks, you buy yourself a
Speaker 1: ticket and let's make sure that Eldercare goes another forty years.
Speaker 1: And that is the good.
Speaker 2: That is the good, the good, the bad, and the
Speaker 2: barb barb you And of course.
Speaker 1: You get the tickets there at the website or just
Speaker 1: drop by. Hey, thank you very much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Michael, thank you, Tom.
Speaker 1: Michael Coola with us here my community connection