Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome, and it's time now for our community connection right here on K one, the one he drucked. Our friends from Eldercare all right in here. And I say friends as in plural, because Angie Thompson, you brought in a special guest today. Yes, and tom it's so good to see you. I'm good, happy to me here on February one, twenty twenty four. I can't believe it's February already, but yeah, I brought Frank Danel with me
this morning. He is our facilities manager at Eldercare. He has just celebrated his nineteenth year. He was the main guy when we were building our building in two thousand and six. He was the main guy. He saw the walls go up, the studs go up, the electricity go in, and he's still helping us keep that building beautiful. That had to be something to watch that thing take shape, take form, grow up into what it is today. That's a beautiful building. Yes, sir, I'll tell you what.
The first day I walked down into it, I was at all I bet you were. And Mike Walker, which was mackinaw that was building it took me under his wing and showed me every inch of it, and I started working on the closeouts with him and getting a building finalized for the opening in March, start moving people in, and we had some punch lists we had to get done. And that was the best thing that helped me understanding
the operation of the building. And it's quite an operation. Not only is it a beautiful building, not only is it a spacious building, it's a highly functional building. Yes, sir, we have twenty three units of it's called geo thermal. We got roughly seventy two wells in the parking lot drilled out of three hundred foot level and that water circulates and six loops comes into three feeder loops and that's our source of water, which is called ground source
water clothes loop, and that's what heats and cools our facility. So it's pretty efficient. It probably saves us over sixty percent electric costs when it operates at a at a maximum capacity. And our building is thirty three thousand square feets. Yeah, actually it's a huge building. Thirty six thousand, thirty six thousand square feet. Isn't that amazing? Wow? Yeah, And a lot of people don't know that. We even have an upstairs where we keep
all of our medical equipment. You know, we loan medical equipment, like small medical equipment like walkers and canes and wheelchairs, and so we store those upstairs. So Frank and his crew every day, you know, they'll transport porta potties or shower chairs, wheelchairs, walkers up and down those stairs to store them upstairs for the next person who needs them. So, well, it looks like you're ready for the Olympics, isn't it. Yeah, well
you took your mama's advice. Stay active, stay active. Yes, mom taught me. Well, you know, I've seen her work all the way past seventy and she lived a good old age and she always said, don't sit around. Oh yeah, that's the worst thing for you. That's the new smoking. I understand. I'm not trying to be funny, but that's what they say. Just be bad for you. It's being sedentary. Yeah,
oh, my goodness, akes, well this is great now. I understand that when we have to use the building for different purposes in different usages, you're the guy they call and say, hey, Frank, how do you think we got to do this? Yeah? My crew consists of two ladies and two guys. I have one assistant that is in his eighties. He's military, and we worked together on whatever Angie needs to set up these events, and we've had some wonderful, wonderful events. I can't imagine how
she does it. It's just awesome. And so we tear down, we set up and get it exactly why she wants. The video units, the sound system is all brand new this year and it is just awesome, awesome, Wow, that is incredible. You know, last year we had forty four events in our building. I believe that forty four eleven hundred people came through New Eyes. Yeah, I know, and there were some of those
events. You know. The dining room is our big room, and so that's where Daybreak meets every day for lunch, and they have round tables and it's really restaurant style dining for Daybreak. It's so beautiful. Well, when we were doing the Alzheimer's in our community events, we needed that to be
theater style because we had eighty people signed up for each of those. So Frank's team had to go in and tear down the Daybreak tables, store them and then bring out all the big chairs and set them up theater styles for another seminar, and then at the end of that they came in and tore the theater style seats down and put up all the round tables and table cloths and table decorations and chairs for daybreak, you know, to make it usable.
But you know that happened every day for several several weeks. My goodness sakes, that'll keep it going. Speaking of Daybreak, that's one of the many great programs that it's offered. Yeah, at elder tell us a little bit about that. Well, I think Daybreak is one of my favorite favorite programs. That was the flagship program that launched elder Care. There was a need that we saw in the community for families who wanted a choice to nursing
home placement. They were maybe their loved one had been diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer's or some other debility hating illness, and they needed care, but there was no place for them during the day. Nursing home placement was the only place. Eldercare became a day health center for those aging adults who needed support during the day. So we have right now in our building sixty percent of that thirty six thousand square feet that Frank mentioned is used just for daybreak.
They have therapeutic programs, exercise, art, cognitive games that they play with the participants to keep their brain strong. Frank mentioned the audio visual that we now have. You know, they're playing movies, they're playing television programs that these folks remember they wanted to listen to Elvis the other day that Sheila told me, and so they were excited to hear all of the music that was
coming through the speakers. But that happens Monday through Friday now from seven thirty to five thirty and includes transportation, a big fancy lunch, you know, it's a five course lunch that we bring over from Green Country Village thanks to Green Country Village. And then they have two healthy snacks. Healthy snack might be biscuits in gravy or pancakes or something yummy, something yummy like that.
And Chef Pam puts all of that together. I mean, can you think of a better place to calm during the day and socialize with people your own age? You know, be stimulated, lets your brain be stimulated and your body move and exercise. You just feel regenerated and rejuvenated every day that you come. And it's daybreak, daybreak Adult Day Health Center Monday through Friday, seven thirty to five thirty. My goodness, akes, you got it all
out there, doesn't you. Yeah. On top of that, you know that you were talking about some of the things that you can do with the different puzzles and things that kind of keep you going on and just having a lot of fun. What it's it called the reflex Slogs reflection board, right, Yeah, it's a big electronic light board and they use that in physical therapy. You know. It's kind of like I call an arcade game. You know, those boxes are squares or the game displays on the board in
front of you. It's about three feet wide led lights, you know, and the objective is to touch the dots or touch the boxes and squares before they hit the bottom of the bow, you know. Or it is like an arcade game. But you know, even fun things like that keep our brains, our brains active. Sure, yeah, that is so cool. What a great resource we have. Now you're out there at twelve twenty three swand drive right and nicely located. You got the wide opens right out there
for you, but still close to everything. But we do want to remind people this is not an in house type of deal. It's not a resident not residential no, No, this is coming as you are. Bring your loved one out there for the day break if if that's what's necessary. And you've got so many different things out there. Got the doctor's office there, that's just really been expanded nicely, right, the CHC Health Clinic with doctor
Jerrel he's a gerontologist. He's been an internist in Bartlesville for over forty years. You know, if you say doctor Jerrold's name, everybody and now Ronda Line is there, you know. And so they're expanding and bringing in other providers and services. Yeah, it's a great opportunity for aging adults. And also let's not forget foundation therapy right, physical therapists there. Yeah, I got to tell you there are so many people I know who have benefited so
much from just the little things they do. Yeah, and they I know when you say, oh, I don't know if I want to go to therapy, that sounds like it's a bother. It sounds like a paint. Well guess what after a couple of visits it's like when are we going back? Right? Well, that's that's a thing. Yeah. I've been there nine times with all my surgeries, and Josh and Tracy and and Christie and all of them have brought me back from surgeries and I've been up and running
the minute they start, and they do a fantastic job. I'm a I'm a sole laver of it. And just look at me. I'm still go up the steps every day going out and like a soldier, Yes, there you go, what there we go? I always say, safe, bet higher a vet. That's right, and he is and great deal. Hey, thank you for your service, not only for Eldercare, but to our country. Thank you. Alrighty, Now, what's the best way folks can do to help keep our resource elder care going in our community. Well,
you know, we always need donations. Cash donations are always helpful. If someone has a qualified charitable distribution that's coming up from their IRA and they would like to share that with elder Care, we can use those resources. Or a stock if they have a stock they would like to get to elder Care. We can take stocks and cash gifts and that helps our programs, you know, it helps programs like Daybreak with the food and transportation helps us hire
staff, qualified staff to work with the elderly. And so that's really the best way that they can help us. Us with cash donations and they can call me if they'd like to discuss a QCD or a stock transfer or a cash gift, and my number is nine one eight three three six eighty five hundred. That's the main number. Just ask for Angie. Oh wow, great, that's how easy it is. Hey, thanks for being with us here. Frank is nice meeting you, Thank you, Thank you. When
I grow up, I want to be you. Yeah, I'd like to add to that. You know, over the years that I've been there, we have looked at equipment that been around a two thousand dollars range and now it's up to about six or eight thousand dollars. So it's very very important to keep that equipment updated. And thanks to the donations of everybody in town that keeps that operation going. You know, no matter how well we take care of it. A lot of this equipment has lasted over ten twelve years.
Wow. But as it goes on, you know, clock's ticket on that stuff, clocks ticking. So every dollar helps us tremendously alrighty, so, folks, remember that when you're looking to make a charitable donation, make sure you keep elder care in your in your thoughts. Now, elder care is just you just turn forty forty. Right, So we're into forty one here, and we're forty one era, we're spritting to fifty. We are Oh, this is great. Been around a long time. Let's keep it
around a lot longer, folks. Thank you both for being here with us today. Folks you've been listening to and watching our community connection one K one, the one you trust