Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome in his time now for our community connection on our nation's birthday, and with Eldercare, we have our good friend Angie Thompson with is how are you today in the happy America's birth Independence Day? Right? Hey? Yeah, so happy to be here. I got my hot dogs and hamburgers already on the grill. So when I get out of here, I'm going to run home and have some relation all that good stuff. Relation is a good time.
You know something you said, independence in Independence Day are holiday. But independence is a key word when we talk about Eldercare because what Eldercare is here for, it's it's not a residential service right at all. You're not living there. It's to help you live independently, keep your independence as long as you can. You know it, And that's true, and that's our goal. You know, everything we do is to help help aging adults remain happy,
healthy and independent for as long as possible. And when you think about it, even though you and I may be in our sixties, we still need a little bit of help. And that's what elder care is all about. It is it's a little bit of help, but to help from a friend is really what it is. Because everyone connected with elder care is just so friendly and we got that common goal, and that's to help you be the best you you can be and help you agent play as long as you can.
That's right. We want everyone to experience life to the fullest, right to the very last minute. Well, you know something, you got a lot going on there, and it's all about being fifty plus and really kind of celebrating it too at the same time. You know, And in the rest of the year, we've got some really great seminars and events planned that I think people of all ages are going to find really helpful and important. Valerie Unru some of you may remember Valerie. She's a fine artist. She
was here in Bartlesville for a number of years. Recently moved to Collinsville to open her own art studio. But she's coming back to hold a pain class for any adults who are interested. It's a six week class. It's two hundred and fifty dollars and sign up is going on now. It begins July seventeenth, will end on August twenty first. It's from ten to noon. You know, every Wednesday, you can come and create a landscape in oils and have one of the very finest artists in our region teach you how to
do it. My goodness sakes, and just for two hundred and fifty dollars, you're getting basically a college course in this and you're going to have a lot of fun. You Plus you're going to run into people you haven't seen in a while and maybe even new friends you know, And this is a great opportunity to bring someone you know if maybe you're you know, your book
club, or maybe you like to do those fine art paintings. There may be several of folks who would want to come and be a little team, could be mother and daughter, mother and daughter in law, a husband and wife team. But it's six weeks of really great education from Valerie. Wow, that's great. Other things that popping up on the calendar all over the place goes. You know, we're at the beginning of a brand new monthly boom it is. You know, I encourage everyone to get online and look
at our calendar. It's about eldercare dot org forward slash events to see what's happening for the rest of the year. You know, it would take me a week I think to go through everything, but I'm just going to hit the highlights of what's coming up. In July, we have a fraud seminar with Trisha Richards from our Vest Wealth Management and she's going to be talking about how to stay safe and secure and keep your account safe. You don't have to be an our Vest member to come to that. It can hits open
to anyone in the community who would like to avoid fraud. That's on July seventeenth to three. And then on the thirty first, I'm really excited that Amanda French will be there. She's going to talk tech and we're calling it Tech Talk with Amanda. She says, bring your questions, bring your laptops, your tablets, iPhones, and you know, if you don't know how to use those things, that will be the format for the day. Just let her help you and everyone else in the room. That's at three on
July thirty first. And actually those things kind of go together, you know a little bit. You know, we like to think that we're back in a certain time in our life where you can trust somebody. That broad thing speaks volumes. You're gonna be surprised how many trixtures. They are out out there, and of course with the tech, okay, a lot of us are okay with the cell phone, you know how to make a call, we can do a text, we can sometimes take good pictures of our grandkids.
There's so much more that's going on there. And of course with the laptop computer, a lot of things are going that way, your health records, things like that that you need to kind of be on top of. So if you've got a little bit of tech going on, this is a way to get into the water. You can wade in knee high, then may be waist deep. We're not gonna throw you in the deep end. We're just gonna get you started here. Yeah, you know. And the good news is it's just for an hour. It's from three to four.
Were on the thirty first, that last Wednesday of the month. And Amanda is so much fun. She's a young, vibrant individual with an IT background. She works for a major corporation here in Bartlesville. But she said, have everyone bring their you know there, let's try to stump the instructor questions and you know, bring it to her and let her help you that day. I'm excited to bring her in. Oh, that's going to be great. You know, there's going to be some folks really working on something.
They will what else got going on? Well, listen, last year we did the downsizing after Decades. Yeah, it was one hundred and eighty nine people came through for that. We're going to hold it again this year. It'll be on two different dates, August eighth and August fourteenth. The first panel will include Linda and Wayne Vineyard and Robin Fullerton. Now you know,
Linda and Wayne are the proprietors of the Minutemen Auctions. So they're going to talk about how to create estate sales and the things you need to think about. And then Robin on that same day, is going to talk about the
process of letting go. You know, she's a family counselor, she's professional licensed family counselor, and people had those questions, how do I know how to have the talk with my mom that I really don't want those lace doilies, even though she thinks I love them, you know, but how do you let go of things? So that first panel will be on August eighth from three to four thirty, and then the second one is August fourteenth at three, and it will include a checklist. You'll have folks there on the
panel who are professionals that help you dispose of hazardous materials. Maybe your laptops. You don't know what to do with them, but you want to get rid of them. Trust Officer Brandy Roblez from Arvestworth Management. We'll talk about some of the key things you need to know as you downsize. Kathy Cowen, who's a local real ator and she's so much fun. She'll talk about what you need as a homeowner to downsize. So it'll be a really great
panel. That's on the August fort August fourteenth. For that second panel in August eighth, both begin at three. Oh my goodness, this is great. Now, do we need to call in and get reservations in on that or do you RSVP to make sure we got room? You can and our phone number is nine one eight three three six eighty five hundred, or if you want to find the sign up link, just look at our website calendar
about eldercare dot org forward slash events. Now, I don't want to get too far ahead, but I understand that we have another one of our senior cannects coming up in August. August twenty second. Andy Taylor is going to be the featured speaker. And Andy is a part of the Chronicle and Independence. He's a storyteller. He's going to present some really fun and interesting stories about VIPs from the Kansas and Oakland and Washington County regions. So he was
here last October and talked about Nip van Winkle. He was really entertaining, and he will be there on August twenty second. It begins at five point thirty and the cost is thirteen dollars and fifty cents. I will tell you that's the best value for a dinner intershell. That's right now. You can find anywhere. I dare you to find anything that's going to bring you that kind of value for that. So a few dollars and it's a great way
to connect with other people. Get a table of your friends and maybe just come by yourself or with someone else and we'll pair you up. There's plenty of a room there, right, And I want to emphasize that all of our events are open to adults of all ages. All ages, So you know, if you're in your thirties and this sounds interesting to you, we want you to come. You're in your eighties and it sounds interesting. We want you to come. Well, there you go. Now, speaking of
availability, we have a Foundation Therapy. How's that going? You know, they serve about eight hundred individuals each month. They have five yeah, five doctors of physical therapy, physical therapist assistance, and a physical therapist. Yeah, occupational therapist Susan Clifton can help you with your occupational therapy needs. And of course Abby is our speech and language pathologist and she can help you if you need help there. And they're going to be at the next community connections
with you, so yeah, all right, that'd be great. And of course we've got the clinics there and a lot of people think, well, you have to you know, have to be some sort of a age or some sort of a prerequisite to come in there, but you don't really know. I mean, they are treating children and adults. Doctor Gretchen McGee is now on staff. She has a discipline in obg yn and family practice. She will treat families. And of course doctor Jerald is still there. It
will always be there. He's our geryontologist. He's worked with seniors for many years and he's continuing to see seniors there. But doctor Gretchen McGee is with the CHC clinic now it's right there inside elder Care and she treats family and then also Ronda Lyne, who's a physician's assistant, she also treats patients there. Wow, this is great. The more we ask questions, the more we know things about Eldercare, and it's nothing what you might think. We
need to hear the name of Eldercare. So we want to make sure that everybody knows what's going on. Forty years and going strong and probably for another you know, forty to fifty more. Thanks I can tell. But my goodness sake, where can we find you? In case books want to just drop by and take a visit, see what's going on. Listen, they can call us at nine one eight three three six eighty five hundred, and I'll mention we have an open house that's coming up on the first Monday of
every month, so come and see us on August fifth. But Caul, if you want to come and learn more about Eldercare, that's nine one eight three three six eighty five hundred, or you can visit our website. I like to say about elder care. It's all one word. What do you want to know about elder care? About elder care dot org. Thank you very much, Angie,