Speaker 1: Today from elder Care.
Speaker 2: We have Josh and we have Jessica in here today
Speaker 2: from Foundation Therapy. Well, Josh, welcome back to your old
Speaker 2: haunts here today.
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And Jessica, welcome to your first time.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 1: Well, great, We're excited to be anywhere.
Speaker 4: Blessing.
Speaker 1: It's always a blessing. Indeed it is. Now. We've got
Speaker 1: a lot going on in the month of October, don't
Speaker 1: we Yes, weird.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a ton going on in Eldercare in October.
Speaker 5: So October is Women's Health Month, and so Eldercare has
Speaker 5: a lot of things happening, a lot of seminars, a
Speaker 5: lot of get togethers. I think it actually kicks off tomorrow.
Speaker 5: I think Restoration's Medical Spa is going to be out
Speaker 5: there given a presentation.
Speaker 3: Doctor Gretcha McGee is.
Speaker 5: Going to give a presentation next week, and we have
Speaker 5: several other events over the next during the month of October.
Speaker 3: And that's kind of why Jessica's here today, because we at.
Speaker 5: Foundation are going to start a new women's health program.
Speaker 5: I think we talked about that time a little bit,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of there's a lot of opportunity and
Speaker 5: there's a lot of need in Bartlesville for that type
Speaker 5: of physical therapy that deals with specifically women's health.
Speaker 1: And Jessica, go ahead and elaborate on that, would you.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean there's a lot of it is
Speaker 4: just education for women, and I feel like there's so
Speaker 4: many women that don't realize that they can get this help.
Speaker 4: They think some of these symptoms that have are normal,
Speaker 4: and really it's not normal. It doesn't have to be
Speaker 4: the normal. They can take charge of their health. We
Speaker 4: can help educate them, we can help give them different
Speaker 4: strategies to help with all their different symptoms, and I
Speaker 4: think I think it will be a great thing for
Speaker 4: this community. And I'm really excited. I take my first
Speaker 4: course for women's health here in a few weeks and
Speaker 4: then after that I'll start seeing patients as a mom
Speaker 4: before I obviously have a lot of patient or a
Speaker 4: lot of passion for women's health. So yeah, it's just
Speaker 4: going to be a wonderful thing for this community, and
Speaker 4: I'm really excited to start helping my patients with that.
Speaker 1: Well, this is great, just another big bonus out there
Speaker 1: in Eldercare.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, you know, there's not a lot of that.
Speaker 5: That service is not offered in Bartlesville very much. So
Speaker 5: oftentimes people are traveling to Awassa or Tulsa to get help,
Speaker 5: and that's just something that doesn't need to happen. So
Speaker 5: we're super excited to add this program out of Foundation Therapy.
Speaker 1: All right, got a lot of other things going on
Speaker 1: out there too, aren't doing here.
Speaker 5: There is falls a busy time at Eldercare. There there's
Speaker 5: a couple of big things. Medicare Party counseling's happening, thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Medicare Party is the.
Speaker 5: Part of Medicare that deals with your prescriptions and those
Speaker 5: just like all of insurance that just and I deal
Speaker 5: with every day. Insurance is changing all the time, and
Speaker 5: so as prescription coverages, and so it's always good to
Speaker 5: a read all your mail that you get about your
Speaker 5: coverage because maybe what was covered last year might not
Speaker 5: be covered this year. And it's always good to have
Speaker 5: a conversation with someone who's in the know and all
Speaker 5: the changes. And there are two people out of elder
Speaker 5: Care that can meet with you one on one. They'll
Speaker 5: provide counseling it's free. All we ask is that you
Speaker 5: give us a call and schedule time and Jerry and
Speaker 5: Deanna will meet with you and work you through that process.
Speaker 5: It's it can be overwhelming for people, so it's a
Speaker 5: it's a blessing that we can offer that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I believe me.
Speaker 2: I've done to email that people my age get.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of it's confusing.
Speaker 2: Some of it's a sales pitch, and you don't really
Speaker 2: notice that it's a sales pitch to.
Speaker 1: You get down to the end, it's like, oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: It's like in paragraph five they say, yeah, your prescription's.
Speaker 3: Not covered anymore.
Speaker 5: It's like, okay, Well, you know, there's all kinds of
Speaker 5: different changes that can happen, So meeting with someone and
Speaker 5: talking through that, I think is important. We've got another
Speaker 5: thing coming up too. We're starting something new this year
Speaker 5: called blitzen Bingo.
Speaker 3: Have you heard of this?
Speaker 2: I just could just it came out of her mouth
Speaker 2: and then you walked in the door, so I was
Speaker 2: just getting a marshal of it.
Speaker 5: Josh, all right, Well, blitzing Bingo is a fundraiser that
Speaker 5: Elder Care is starting this year in conjunction with the
Speaker 5: radio station.
Speaker 3: So it is.
Speaker 5: You know, people love bingo and I find out I've
Speaker 5: had a hard I've had a hard time grasping the
Speaker 5: love of bingo.
Speaker 3: But I think I'm in now.
Speaker 5: I'm in on the bingo uh and so we're doing
Speaker 5: it in conjunction with the radio. It'll be kind of
Speaker 5: you have the opportunity to buy packets with your Bingo cards.
Speaker 5: It's a way for us to kind of come together
Speaker 5: as a community.
Speaker 3: Whether people.
Speaker 5: Are at home, maybe they're out of the community, but
Speaker 5: they can still listen to ky FM on the app.
Speaker 5: You can sit at home together with your family and
Speaker 5: your Christmas pajamas. It'll be about the first week of
Speaker 5: December and you can participate in Bingo. Listen to the radio,
Speaker 5: listen for the song, mark it off on your Bingo
Speaker 5: sheet and if you get a Bingo call.
Speaker 3: In and you can win a prize.
Speaker 1: Well, how do you like that? Yeah? I love that.
Speaker 1: That's really cool. That's super new.
Speaker 3: I think a family with four kids would like that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I think there might.
Speaker 5: Be battles over yea, the battles over the Bingo card
Speaker 5: on whose it was.
Speaker 1: They'll know all the songs.
Speaker 3: I think they will.
Speaker 2: There I think it is.
Speaker 3: But we're super excited.
Speaker 5: So there's sponsorship opportunities for that out right now. And
Speaker 5: then the individual I think tickets are going to be
Speaker 5: coming in the next.
Speaker 3: Week or two. So this is going to be a
Speaker 3: lot of fun. It'll be it'll be a good time.
Speaker 1: Oh, it is, it is, it is.
Speaker 2: Now. Tell us a little bit about Foundation Therapy now, Jessica,
Speaker 2: you've been out there quite a while and it's been
Speaker 2: kind of growing, but really it's kind of been on
Speaker 2: We don't want to say it's been on steroids because
Speaker 2: we don't do that, but it's for growing, growing, it's exponential. Here,
Speaker 2: lay tell us a little bit about what you've seen
Speaker 2: over the last couple of years.
Speaker 4: Well, over the last couple of years, I mean we've
Speaker 4: added how many therapists to several Well, yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: we just recently added another full time therapist, Baylor. Hopefully
Speaker 4: we can get her in here within the next few months.
Speaker 4: She's great, she will do She's a great asset to
Speaker 4: our program. She was actually a student here a few
Speaker 4: years ago. Yeah, and she's just she's really fun and
Speaker 4: like I said, she's somewhat she's two years she graduated
Speaker 4: two years ago. So she brings a lot of life,
Speaker 4: I feel like to our facility.
Speaker 3: And then we.
Speaker 4: Had Rachel Amanda, just several new therapists with lots of
Speaker 4: different assets, and we just have a great group out there.
Speaker 2: You had a lot of skill sets, a lot of
Speaker 2: different personalities, and the just.
Speaker 3: A great way to kind of match up with your client.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Rachel's doing dry needling. She took a course
Speaker 4: for that back in the spring. So that's another great
Speaker 4: asset to our program for the patients that need it
Speaker 4: and you know, qualify for it.
Speaker 5: So Baylor does that as well. She also helps teach
Speaker 5: our Parkinson's class that we teach. So she actually when
Speaker 5: she was a student here a couple of years ago,
Speaker 5: she started when she went back home to work, she
Speaker 5: started a Parkinson Parkinson's class there and then we just
Speaker 5: signed her up to come back to Bartlesville.
Speaker 3: So and she's going to help me with it here.
Speaker 3: So it's fantastic.
Speaker 4: Didn't we get to share an office? So yeah, that's right,
Speaker 4: I got a buddy.
Speaker 1: Now you're not all alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, things are just popping, you know. Eldercare is
Speaker 2: a great resource in our community and a lot of
Speaker 2: people sometimes I shouldn't say a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Most people know that it's not a residential care facility, right.
Speaker 2: Eldercare is there to make sure that you can age
Speaker 2: with dignity in place for as long as you possibly Canutely,
Speaker 2: it's all about your independence and this is just a
Speaker 2: resource to kind of.
Speaker 1: Help you there.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's the opposite. So yeah, our goal is to
Speaker 5: keep people happy, healthy and independent for as long as
Speaker 5: safely possible in their own home. And you know, on
Speaker 5: the physical therapy side, we need to start that process early,
Speaker 5: so we see adults of all ages. And that's really
Speaker 5: what elder care wants to be is a place for
Speaker 5: you to be actively aging. So and that starts when
Speaker 5: you're my age of forty one, and you just kind
Speaker 5: of work even earlier. You have to invest in yourself
Speaker 5: early to have a really successful long life.
Speaker 2: So well, I can guarantee you that because it's really
Speaker 2: easy to get sedentary. And then once you get sedentary
Speaker 2: and something starts to you know, as I said, at
Speaker 2: the age sixty one, the wheels.
Speaker 1: Kind of fell off.
Speaker 2: Well it's kind of tough to get those wheels back off,
Speaker 2: but once you do, you feel a whole heck, of a.
Speaker 3: Lot better, and it just starts with little steps. ADBD
Speaker 3: just takes a little steps to start.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 4: I feel like we have so many patients all have
Speaker 4: a patient come in and, you know, just start the
Speaker 4: treatment session, they're like, I really didn't feel like coming in,
Speaker 4: didn't feel that great. And then by the end of
Speaker 4: the session they're like, oh, I feel better. There's really
Speaker 4: some indoor fense.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 4: And then I've had several patients that, you know, say well,
Speaker 4: I'm not as bad off as this person, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: well that maybe you're not, but we want you to
Speaker 4: be the best that you can be because there's still
Speaker 4: at a really high level of function and we want
Speaker 4: to continue to facilitate that.
Speaker 3: So it's a great, great place you have everything.
Speaker 2: Like a balance is a big, big thing and I'm
Speaker 2: finding that out sometimes that's not a given.
Speaker 5: It's not a given, and it's something that people don't
Speaker 5: ever focus on. There's no you don't go to the
Speaker 5: gym and work on your balance so much, but it's
Speaker 5: something that if you don't work on it, it will
Speaker 5: kind of slip away.
Speaker 3: From you pun intended.
Speaker 5: So we you can challenge yourself in your balance at
Speaker 5: home in a lot of easy ways. So we depend
Speaker 5: on our balance. We depend on our ears, our eyes,
Speaker 5: and our ankles and hips for our balance. So if
Speaker 5: we can challenge ourselves to do things on one leg,
Speaker 5: standing with our eyes closed, do those things in the
Speaker 5: safety of your own home, you can actually challenge yourself
Speaker 5: quite a bit and get.
Speaker 1: Yourself a lot longer way into the positive.
Speaker 5: In the air thoughts, absolutely, because I mean it's just
Speaker 5: things that people don't particularly work on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, it's not call you have that whoopsie. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: what happened here?
Speaker 2: We're all about trying to negate the whoopsie exactly. Now,
Speaker 2: you've got some friends out there. Do you understand that
Speaker 2: there's a full clinic that's been associated with the Eldercare.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the CHC clinic across the hall. Yeah, they have.
Speaker 5: Like I said earlier, Gretcha McGee is a primary care
Speaker 5: physician that's over there.
Speaker 3: Ronda Line is over there as well, and.
Speaker 5: Doctor Jerrold is still an elder Care You'll be there,
Speaker 5: so doctor Gerald just Dartnwall doesn't want to be there. Listen,
Speaker 5: there is a new primary care physician coming over to
Speaker 5: that clinic. I want to say November or December, and
Speaker 5: so they are. It's it's very exciting to look out
Speaker 5: in the hallway at Eldercare and see people of all
Speaker 5: ages waiting, waiting for their doctor's visit. You know, there's
Speaker 5: not been many times where there's babies crying at Eldercare,
Speaker 5: but there's babies there now. It's it's it's an exciting change.
Speaker 5: As healthcare changes and everything uh in our world changes,
Speaker 5: elder care is changing too. We're gon we're gonna have
Speaker 5: to we have to do that.
Speaker 2: Last couple of times have been out, there's been a
Speaker 2: little bit of remodeling going on, and it's old because growth.
Speaker 5: I've angined, right, you know, over the last two months,
Speaker 5: at least in the therapy department, we've seen the most
Speaker 5: patients we've ever seen so and the expectation is for
Speaker 5: that to continue to move forward. That's the reason that
Speaker 5: we hired a new therapist full time. And the unfortunate
Speaker 5: part of the waiting list is still there, but we're
Speaker 5: getting through it a lot faster than we were last year. So,
Speaker 5: like I think I've said it before ten years ago.
Speaker 5: Just started in twenty fifteen. I started in twenty fourteen
Speaker 5: at that point, if we were seeing three hundred patients
Speaker 5: in a month their inner patient visits, that was a
Speaker 5: good month.
Speaker 3: And now we're seeing.
Speaker 5: About eight hundred, So it's a big difference and where
Speaker 5: we were doing our best to accommodate it.
Speaker 2: Well, that's great. Do you have to be a certain
Speaker 2: age to take advantage of foundation therapy?
Speaker 5: You don't, We advertised to adults of all ages.
Speaker 1: Adults of all ages.
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go, so eighteen, you're in if you
Speaker 2: need it. Now you work on a little bit more
Speaker 2: than just you know, the musical. We talked a little
Speaker 2: bit about a balance and things like that, but you know,
Speaker 2: things like it for work or something you've had maybe
Speaker 2: a setback and you kind of need to We learned
Speaker 2: how to use parts and pieces.
Speaker 4: You guys do that, yes, yes, I mean you know,
Speaker 4: we see people trying to get back to their job
Speaker 4: and yeah, we definitely work on that and help them
Speaker 4: find strategies, work on their body mechanics, all those things
Speaker 4: to get them back where they need to be and
Speaker 4: prevent future injuries strokes too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, whether you need physical therapy, speech therapy, or occupational
Speaker 5: therapy so ocpational therapy. Susan Clifton is at our clinic
Speaker 5: where we are very lucky to have her. She's an
Speaker 5: OT and also a hand specialist, so that's a certification
Speaker 5: beyond the OT degree that she went to get and
Speaker 5: there's not too many of those around. And just like
Speaker 5: and speaking of not too many around, Abby is Abby
Speaker 5: Peterman is our speech therapist and she works on adults
Speaker 5: and the only one an outpatient that focuses on adults.
Speaker 5: So we're lucky to have the staff that we have,
Speaker 5: and we're lucky as in Bartlesville to have the opportunity
Speaker 5: to serve for us to serve the community the way
Speaker 5: we do one on one where we can really establish
Speaker 5: rapport with our patients and relationships and kind of understand
Speaker 5: what they're going through and problem solve the things that
Speaker 5: they need to all the goals that they're setting for themselves.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 2: I want to thank you both Jessica and Josh for
Speaker 2: being here today and thanks for letting us know what's
Speaker 2: going on in Eldercare. There's a lot. You know, I'm
Speaker 2: going to be posting a big story today. Well, go
Speaker 2: through your cat calendar on the website. I'm so yeah.
Speaker 5: If you want any information about the events that are
Speaker 5: happening in October. You can go to our website at
Speaker 5: www dot about Eldercare dot org and if you just
Speaker 5: want to call somebody, you can give the main line
Speaker 5: a call at nine three six eighty five hundred.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, We'll talk to Alanda today.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being with