There we go passes. Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. It's time now for our community connection right here on K one, the one you trust, and we have our friends here from Elder Carot or should I say Foundation Therapy. How are we doing here? Good morning, Nice to be here Josh, Abby, Great to have you both in here today. Starting off the new year, limpur and speaking.
Well, I guess that's exactly everyone's getting ready with their new year's resolutions and their new year's goals, and so we wanted to chat a little bit about some really easy, simple ways, simple goals, habits to do this to have this year that might prevent you from meeting therapy. Well, well, okay, I mean it's not like you're against books coming by to visit yet. You just want to make sure that they can kind of do some
of this on their own right. But even if even if you've come to therapy, what we try to do on your exercise program after is limit the barriers to you accomplishing your goals at home. So that's kind of like what we want to talk about today, easy ways to take next steps. Well, start off, how well we do this for us for physical therapy.
What we often see people for is balance. So easy, very easy ways that you can work on your balance at home are just to find an inside corner of a cabinet or like in your kitchen or in a room and stand with your feet close together and your arms crush your chest and try to just stand as long as you can without touching the wall. So if you can do that for up to thirty seconds, then the next progression is to close your eyes and it kind of changes the ball game a little bit. Oh
boy does it? I mean yeah, I've been there. It's play that with age. That does happen, Absolutely happens. People don't realize that they control their balance with their eyes, their ears, and their ankles and hips. So we often challenge people by taking their vision away and that really challenges other systems and so you can really help yourself in your balance just doing very simple things like that. Well okay, well there's something I'm going I could
cry and I'll hunt the kids around make sure nothing happens. What's dad doing over there? You just being dad? I mean what you got for folks? Well, honestly, my number one thing, especially with a new year, is to have routine. And this is particularly important I've found post retirement. Right after retirement, you need to still have routines. You need to
have daily routines, weekly routines. You need to have some kind of structure to your day to where you feel like you have a purpose, where you're being productive with your time, where you're staying engaged, and you're still enjoying life with people, and so that you're not getting sucked into this I'm gonna sit on the couch and watch TV all day. Maybe it starts with just having the TV on in the background and then eventually you've watched TV for five
hours that day, things like that. But we want to keep your brain engaged, we want to keep it stimulated, we want to keep it sharp, and part of doing that is having a bit of structure to your day. It doesn't have to be rigid, but just some kind of rhythm routine that you do each day each week to have some of those healthier habits and activities incorporated into your time. My brother just recently retired and he thought that was gonna be the greatest thing. I check in with him every now and
then, how's it going, how's it going, how's it going. Now it's been almost a year, and he says, it seems to me that every day on the calendar is Saturday until I tell it differently. That's exactly right, and it is you have to tell it differently. And he's getting to that point where it's like, Okay, this is becoming a blurer. So put that recommendation down. Plus we'll stand eve in the corner just to see what he does. That correlates her setting routine and not winding up on
the couch for five hours a day absolutely correlates with us. Also, it sure do. You'll just you'll conform to the ship of your couch eventually and it'll be harder to get up and around and get moving. So another thing that we tell people to do often is just to sit to stands from a standard chair, so you don't have to go to a gym and do squats or do anything. Just a functional strengthening program to sit and stand from a
chair. You can add weights, like holding weights up to your chest, but it doesn't really need a gym membership to accomplish a lot of things that you want to accomplish in retirement or otherwise. We're talking with Josh and Abby there with the Foundation therapy which is out at Eldercare. Now, my doctor
of all people told me this a couple of years ago. That is easy as getting up out of your chair makes all the difference in the world, because that's going to be the difference in time whether or not you can live independently or you're going to have to have assistant care and pay for it. And she said, just make sure that if you do nothing else, get up, get down, get out, get down, several times day in
order to make sure that that works for as long as it can. And the chair doesn't really change high since you don't get stronger or you get weaker. Yeah, so we got to stay strong. That's exactly right. And we see that these things happen in cycles. Right, So let's say you start having trouble getting out of your chair, So now you're not going to get out of it as often. You're going to stay sitting down, So
you're going to stay in front of that TV longer. You're not going to be as social, you're not going to go out with your friends because it's so hard for you to move around. And now your brain is less engaged and then maybe you start feeling a little bit just kind of down and depressed, and so you continue to not do the healthy things, and it's just these negative cycles. But what we want to do is we want to reverse
that in the positive cycles. We want healthy brain engagement so that we have those positive endorphins going on which makes us want to get out of our chair to do things, makes us want to get up and go do a hobby and activity. This is supposed to be fun. It's not supposed to be work. You don't have to, you know, go back to school, you don't have to you don't have to engage some rigorous study program or anything like that, where like Josh was saying, a rigorous exercise program. It's
supposed to be enjoyable. Do hobbies, do fund social activities, hang out with your family, hang out with your friends. Just be engaged and have positive cycles of health instead of negative cycles of health. Very good, now, Josh. You know, when you get up and move around a little bit, you feel a whole lot better. You're oxygenating your body a lot more absolutely, I mean better for your lungs, your muscles, everything. So and honestly it's you, I mean, have you ever regretted going to
a gym. No, you never regret getting up and going. Sometimes it just takes the intention. You just have to be intentional about what you're doing. So I've had that problem just getting in the car, but once up there at the gym, about golly, I feel great. Yes. Yes. And the other thing that helps you actually get up and go is back to that idea of routine and habit. So if you're trying to incorporate some kind of goal or new habit into your year, having it in isolation is
one of the most surefire ways of not accomplishing that this year. Incorporating it into a routine, having it scheduled, having it be a regular part, something that is intentionally done at a specific time during the day or at a specific day during the week, you are much much much more likely to actually stick to it and get up and go because that's just what you do at
that time, That's just what you do on those days. But the pattern, I mean, you can establish a pattern in a habit and it doesn't have to be going full steam ahead, you know, doing one hundred repetitions of something. It's just making the time, cutting the time out and just doing a few and then working your way out. But you are cutting that time out for this is what I'm accomplishing right now. This is my new
routine. You just made a whole lot of guys who played sports feel a lot better because when they think about going to the gym, it's like, oh gosh, that's like work, because you know, they're thinking that they have to do with they did when they were playing football or baseball, and it's like, it's nothing like that. It's a it's it's going to the gym and getting the fun part in and not necessarily the oh gosh, I'm
gonna feel it's in the morning. You know, we don't. You don't need to go to the gym and make yourself sore every time so you can't walk the next day. It's not like you're training to be a marine, right, What are your goals? Right? You're gold to be happy and healthy and that's that's right, And so that's that's part of the intention of our of what we're talking about is intentionally working toward your goals and not your
goals as a high school baseball player. Yeah, don't worry, we won't turn it into a Navy seal unless you ask yeah to cost you a little, No, won't abby what you got to Oh. I think that that really, that really encapsulates so much of what we see. You know, some of what we see it's not preventable. It doesn't matter how healthy of a person you are, It doesn't matter how many healthy habits you had.
Sometimes things just happen. You get a diagnose this, you're in a car accident, you have some kind of injury, whatever, it was out of your control. But if we could reduce the number of people that came to see us from things that would have been preventable, and maybe it would have been preventable with just a few minor tweaks to those habits and routines within the last couple of years, then I think that that would make such a difference
in people's lives. Just a few minor things here and there can make a really big difference down the road, and it can prevent much, much bigger issues later on. And Josha Foundation therapy, even if you have a setback like a like an injury or something like that, you might not get back to one hundred percent, but by golly, you're going to get to the best you could possibly ride. I mean our goal, our goal there is to work with the patient develop what their goals are. So what are your
goals to get back to? And that's what we worked forward. So I mean it's that's yeah, So be realistic, Be realistic. And that's the other thing. Yeah, you're your body isn't going to function like it did when you were twenty. Your brain isn't going to function like it did when you were twenty. Yes, you're going to occasionally have some word finding issues. You're going to occasionally forget some details of the thing that happened last week,
and all of that is expected and typical. And we can't necessarily waive you know, magic ones in therapy to make those things go away. Would you can allow us to try to live with it the best we can exactly, you can still have a completely fulfilling and satisfactory life, high quality of life, even as you age and as you have just those typical aging progressions in your body and in your mind. You two realized just how hopeful you
made people. Well, it helped it. Yeah, Yeah, I mean there's a lot of folks that sometimes they just feel like, well, I'm stuck in this routine and it's never going to change. And that's not true. We have the research. We know that that's not true. You can continue to live a happy and healthy life no matter how old you get. If you feel like if you do feel like you need some help, and this does seem like a barrier on setting some goals for yourself, We're more
than happy to help you with that. Very good folks, they're nice, they're good people. You know, you come out and visit, set up an appointment, and just walking around it isn't going to cost you a dime. Now, I mean introduce you. There's some really pretty cool people in a variety of different capacities out there at Eldercare at twelve twenty three Swan Drive, and you know, that's kind of a happening place for folks who are
aging in place. And this is what we want you to do. We want to get this out of anybody's mindset that Eldercare is some kind of assistant living place. It's not. We want you to live independently and happily as long as you possibly can, and with the help of Josh and Abbey and everyone else out there, it's just a complete resource center. The whole mission of Eldercare is to keep people happy, healthy, living, independent lives in place. There you go. You can be a stubborn old man like me
and stay at home the courtesy of these great friends. But not on the couch for five hours. Not on the couch for five hours, you get a bedstore. It's not fine. I want to thank you for coming in. First of all, how do we get a hold of you? You can always call our office at nine seven sixty six zero three nine one, and you're open for business of what five days a week? Yes, our clinic is open five days a week, five days a week. Wow.
Cool. And it's at about eldercare dot org. And you'll find it there on one of the resource tabs that they can tell you a little bit about it. If you're pretty handy with a computer, absolutely alrighty. By the way, hats off to your web person because you've made that a pretty easy journey. It is. The website has taken uh has had a lot of changes in the last years. Yes, it has for the better for the easement of the upper Thank you both for being here with us on care