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H.E.A.R.T. 4 Seniors Foundation - Elderly Care Technology · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Eight oh five, think about kercdtalk station. Happy Friday, maybe
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Speaker 1: even extra special Happy. My friends from Heart for Seniors
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Speaker 1: are in studio. Heart the Number four Seniors dot org.
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Speaker 1: It's an amazing organization which principal point is to help seniors,
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Speaker 1: whether they're in assisted living facilities or being cared forward home,
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Speaker 1: and that's a growing number of the population. They always
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Speaker 1: struggle with incontinence issues. We've talked about the smart incontinence
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Speaker 1: undergarment that they have and they rolled that out some
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Speaker 1: time ago and that has really, really, really done a
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Speaker 1: world of good for seniors and avoided a lot of
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Speaker 1: medical risks that go along with letting them wallow in
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Speaker 1: their own you know. So improvements in that along those lines,
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Speaker 1: but they keep advancing the technology and offering more and
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Speaker 1: more products. And Patty, Alex and Tim from Hart for
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Speaker 1: Seniors all in studio to talk about an amazing advancement
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Speaker 1: with this Heart for Seniors Alert Response technology. Welcome folks,
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Speaker 1: it's great to have you in the studio and thanks
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Speaker 1: for joining us this morning. Thanks freezing that microphone up
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Speaker 1: in front of your face. There no one's going to
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Speaker 1: be able to hear. Patty will always start with you
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Speaker 1: bubbly and happy you always are, and I know you
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Speaker 1: love what you're doing and helpless seniors out. You showed
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Speaker 1: me the new smart watch. Yes that this is ready
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Speaker 1: to go.
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Speaker 2: We are ready to go.
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Speaker 3: If your listeners are interested by the end of this,
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Speaker 3: they just need to call and we'll have them set
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Speaker 3: up in a matter of no time at home. So
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Speaker 3: obviously we'll give the number and everything later.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we will.
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Speaker 3: We have been testing in home with our smart watch
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Speaker 3: and our technology app on real live seniors.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're going to have some great examples of that
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Speaker 1: to give the real world.
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Speaker 3: Real world history experience. So we'll just take one person
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Speaker 3: to give an example. This is a seventy year old
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Speaker 3: man lives independently.
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Speaker 1: Let's make sure my listeners are clear. So what we're
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Speaker 1: talking about here is your typical sort of Apple smart
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Speaker 1: watch looking.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very simple.
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Speaker 1: And then you have an app YEP that lives on
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Speaker 1: the phone, on the loved one's phone. The people who
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Speaker 1: are doing the monitoring that people will cry for mom
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Speaker 1: or dad, all right.
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Speaker 2: Correct piece.
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Speaker 3: And if the senior, which is like my dad has
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Speaker 3: a flip phone and doesn't have a phone, we provide
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Speaker 3: the phone.
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Speaker 2: Oh oh, okay, yes, so we.
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Speaker 3: Will provide the phone and the watch together to live
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Speaker 3: in the house with them if that's what they need,
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Speaker 3: and travel with.
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Speaker 1: So, if you're not talking about it, maybe dementia Alzheimer's
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Speaker 1: patient that a senior themselves will get this information and
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Speaker 1: can use it to their own advantage. Correct, Oh, that's great.
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Speaker 2: Correct.
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Speaker 3: So this particular individual, seventy year old man, his children
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Speaker 3: live out of town. They're in Columbus and Cleveland, but
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Speaker 3: he lives here independently with his wife. He kept falling
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Speaker 3: and he didn't know why he was falling, went to
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Speaker 3: the doctor, did his vitals, put him on some meds,
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Speaker 3: thinking that it was just maybe blood pressure related, whatever
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Speaker 3: the case may be. Right, comes home, still falls. Family
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Speaker 3: reaches out to us and we said, fine, let's put
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Speaker 3: our technology on him.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Within the first three days we started noticing patterns. And
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Speaker 3: the patterns were his heart rate at night was dropping
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Speaker 3: to thirty three word or in the morning it was
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Speaker 3: dropping to thirty three. So we were getting ranges for example,
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Speaker 3: of anywhere from and I'll show you these high lows
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Speaker 3: here if you can just look. We were getting ranges
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Speaker 3: from thirty two to eighty seven thirty two to one
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Speaker 3: hundred and three.
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Speaker 1: Oh right, So that's throughout the day.
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Speaker 3: Twenty four hours a day, we're getting we're pulling data
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Speaker 3: in not just on heart rates fluctuation, right, not just
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Speaker 3: on heart rate, but on pulsa. We're also doing HRV.
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Speaker 3: We are also doing two feet on the ground symmetry,
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Speaker 3: we're doing walking asymmetry, we're doing a FIB and we're
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Speaker 3: now doing a regular heartbeat rhythm.
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Speaker 1: All of that capture, all of that.
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Speaker 3: Captured in our technology.
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Speaker 2: It's amazing.
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Speaker 3: So here's what happened, Brian, and then I'll let our
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Speaker 3: chief technology take over. So after really looking at him,
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Speaker 3: we started seeing these patterns, right, and these clusters that
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Speaker 3: were just pretty incredible. And we were like, okay, once
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Speaker 3: most technology can't combine. You just get a heart rate
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Speaker 3: reading or you get a pul sox reading, nothing ever
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Speaker 3: combines it in a cluster medical fashion, right, so we.
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Speaker 1: Can get at that moment in time, you've got heart rate,
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Speaker 1: pulse socks and all the other day to real time.
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Speaker 2: And real time twenty four to seven.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 3: So we then took his meds and we said, can
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Speaker 3: you give us the meds? We threw him into a
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Speaker 3: program we have where it's looked at and analyzed really
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Speaker 3: really deep. And three of the meds he was on
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Speaker 3: side effects.
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Speaker 2: Low heart rate, Oh wow.
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Speaker 1: Okay, and I mean the traditional pharmacy days. The pharmacist
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Speaker 1: was the one that was supposed to identify the interaction
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Speaker 1: between meds. I guess that doesn't happen anymore.
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Speaker 3: No, no, And so we were able to see, unlike
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Speaker 3: somebody just going to the doctor getting their vitals, once
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Speaker 3: the doctor prescribes, they leave, they don't see him for
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Speaker 3: another six months, right, we were able to see the
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Speaker 3: time correlations between when he took his meds versus things
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Speaker 3: that were happening. So let's just take from this perspective
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Speaker 3: as far as the client was concerned. The patient, the
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Speaker 3: seventy year old, he now is getting alerted. Okay, alert
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Speaker 3: pops up on his phone and it says abnormal low
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Speaker 3: oxygen real time, real time, So he knows his oxygen
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Speaker 3: level has dropped. He knows that he's had a heart
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Speaker 3: rate issue. The family is getting this also at the
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Speaker 3: same time.
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Speaker 1: Oh and okay, there's an acknowledge button.
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Speaker 3: If you don't acknowledge, it's going to keep going because
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Speaker 3: they want the family member to know and they want
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Speaker 3: him to know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I imagine there are steps he has
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Speaker 1: been told to take. If you are having a low pulse.
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Speaker 3: You get an alert that means stay put right until
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Speaker 3: you see that it's gone back up. Right, so we
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Speaker 3: prevent falls, or be careful when you're standing up, so
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Speaker 3: that you really can kind of understand your walker can
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Speaker 3: there correct, slowly correct. But what takes this to a
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Speaker 3: whole different level, okay, is the reporting. So how many
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Speaker 3: people go to their doctor and don't really know what
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Speaker 3: to say, or they kind of say something and then
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Speaker 3: they are like, well, forget what to say in that category, right,
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Speaker 3: forget what to say? So right here you have a
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Speaker 3: little report calculator. Right, you can hit report, you can
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Speaker 3: say share pdf. You can put your name on it
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Speaker 3: or not put your name on it if you want.
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Speaker 3: And guess what, all of a sudden, you get a
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Speaker 3: complete detailed report hour by hour with your doctor.
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Speaker 2: Just print it out and hand it to your doctor
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Speaker 2: four hours. You can do seven day patterns.
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Speaker 1: Or the doctor could say, hey, can you give me this.
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Speaker 4: Correct And we've had instances where people went into the
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Speaker 4: doctor and they showed the report and the doctor was amazed, like,
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Speaker 4: how do you I've never seen someone come with that
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Speaker 4: much data.
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Speaker 1: The doctor's amazed.
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Speaker 2: The doctors like where'd you get that? I know, like,
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Speaker 2: how do you have so much?
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Speaker 3: So then we actually got feedback from the doctors. So
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Speaker 3: the cardiologists were saying, well, okay, heart rate data, oxygen data,
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Speaker 3: that's all good, but we like to see clusters. We
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Speaker 3: like to see actual like together clusters. We like to
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Speaker 3: see variability, frequency and clusters together. We were like, okay,
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Speaker 3: that's fine.
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Speaker 1: So there it is.
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Speaker 2: There it is.
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Speaker 3: So our chief technology officer here was able to actually
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Speaker 3: take it and do exactly what the doctor wants to see.
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Speaker 2: That's out, and it's out.
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Speaker 1: You just click it. You just because you didn't identify
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Speaker 1: Alex as a chief technology maps and all. Nice work.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's a game changer.
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Speaker 2: Game changer, I mean absolutely so we really nothing like
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Speaker 2: it on the mark.
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Speaker 4: We've built an ecosystem where, you know, we can take
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Speaker 4: any wearable device that's in the market and integrate it
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Speaker 4: into the into the system.
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Speaker 1: So someone's got the Apple phone or the other kind
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Speaker 1: of a Google phone, whatever the hell's out there. I
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Speaker 1: don't own one, see look, but they don't have to
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Speaker 1: get the separate phone. They can use the one they've got, correct, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: oh well done.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but if they don't have one, we want to provide.
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Speaker 3: That's what we are where A five.
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Speaker 2: And one that.
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Speaker 3: That we I mean most seniors, right, but think about
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Speaker 3: it for us right as Sandwich generation. Our parents right
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Speaker 3: are in their eighties, a lot of us some of
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Speaker 3: them are in their sixties seventies. But even I am
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Speaker 3: wearing it, like I'm actually wearing the technology as well.
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Speaker 2: I'm a senior. I'm gonna admit it. I'm a senior.
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Speaker 1: Now you're like my age.
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Speaker 2: We're seniors though, Brian.
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Speaker 1: Is that why I got my ARP solicitation?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: And you know, quite honestly, Friday, Patty, Sorry, sorry, that's okay,
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Speaker 3: but you know it's important. It's important even for us
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Speaker 3: to know, right from a longevity perspective, like let's catch
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Speaker 3: something early, right so we can be proactive. But for
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Speaker 3: my my parent who's four hours away.
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Speaker 1: Right, you could be watching them right there, right.
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Speaker 3: There next and my mom is able to like physically
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Speaker 3: see it and know it and understand what's happening as well.
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Speaker 3: So we're so excited, we're ready to go. Like if
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Speaker 3: anybody has someone at home, far away, local. You're a
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Speaker 3: senior yourself, and you're kind of like, man, I'm I'm
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Speaker 3: not feeling well. I haven't been feeling well. Not sure
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Speaker 3: why I'm not feeling well. And you go to the
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Speaker 3: doctor and they take your your vitals and then you
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Speaker 3: leave with medication, and then you're still not feeling well. Well,
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Speaker 3: it's probably somewhere hidden in the data. It is, it's
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Speaker 3: hidden in the data.
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Speaker 1: So and she's listening right now. So I'm thinking about
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Speaker 1: my mom, you know, And she pointed out, note she's
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Speaker 1: not eighty six, she's eighty six and a half. She
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Speaker 1: even joked about this yesterday. She's remember when you're like
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Speaker 1: five years old and half years met a whole lot
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Speaker 1: because that starts meaning a whole lot to me. So
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Speaker 1: she's I'm mean six and a half. But I don't
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Speaker 1: view her. She's independent, she could still capable of driving,
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Speaker 1: manages her own limitations to a great degree, and that's wonderful.
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Speaker 1: But sounds to me like she'd be a great person
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Speaker 1: to an ideal Candida for something like that.
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Speaker 3: We would love to have her on it, absolutely love
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Speaker 3: to have her.
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Speaker 1: It's peace of mind, that's mine for me.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's empowerment. Right. You see your own health data, right,
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Speaker 4: you be able to be proactive and that allows you
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Speaker 4: as a senior to stay at home as long as
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Speaker 4: possible because ultimately you want to stay away from the
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Speaker 4: nursing home.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the way you enjoy independent living. Yes, there
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Speaker 1: are some fantastic senior facilities that have activities every single
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Speaker 1: hour of every single day. And I can see the
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Speaker 1: benefit of wanting to be in that environment with people
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Speaker 1: your age, maybe make new friends, but always have something
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Speaker 1: to do. But you know, even though you are free
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Speaker 1: and independent, but you know this, this data is just
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Speaker 1: is great regardless of living circumstance. I would argue, well,
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Speaker 1: we'll bring back Heart for seniors here in a moment
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Speaker 1: with Patty, Tim and Alex. It's Heart the number four
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Speaker 1: Seniors dot. Or you can check out the technology yourself.
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Speaker 1: We'll learn about how you can acquire it. Stick around
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Speaker 1: with you right back. He RC the Talk Station eight
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Speaker 1: twenty fifty about KRCD Talk Station harnessing technology to improve
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Speaker 1: the quality of life and even save lives if you
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Speaker 1: think about it, because a fall could equal a broken
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Speaker 1: him could equal death. When we're talking about the senior community.
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Speaker 1: That's what it's all about. With Heart the number four
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Speaker 1: seniors dot org. Find them online talking about this brand
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Speaker 1: new rollout of the smart device which they had before.
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Speaker 1: So you got the smart watch, even if you own
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Speaker 1: one already. According to the tech experts sitting in the
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Speaker 1: room here Alex at Heart for seniors, you can hook
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Speaker 1: that watch up to this new technology. So you got
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Speaker 1: the app on your phone. Your loved ones have the
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Speaker 1: app on your phone, so mom's taking care of yourself
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Speaker 1: at home. You immediately know what the vitals are and
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Speaker 1: a whole whole host of vitals you talked about, Patty,
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Speaker 1: the way they cluster the data, you can see trends.
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Speaker 1: It's all right there. Your doctors can rely on this
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Speaker 1: information and making proper diagnosis. This is nothing but great
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Speaker 1: rolled up now. The only problem is it's Friday. Tech
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Speaker 1: Friday is on Friday, and Dave Hatter and I have
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Speaker 1: come to agreement. Apps are bad for the most part.
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Speaker 1: They're hoovering up data. So pivoting over to Alex, I
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Speaker 1: asked you off air, have you thought about privacy and
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Speaker 1: security because this is really this is confidential information.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and then this is this is so you know
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Speaker 4: we're getting into the hippo territory, yes, sir, and we
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Speaker 4: you know, we take care.
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Speaker 5: Of the data.
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Speaker 4: The data is encrypted, it is living on a person's device.
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Speaker 4: We get some data in the cloud, but it is
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Speaker 4: de identified.
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Speaker 1: De identified meaning they don't know anybody's name associated with
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Speaker 1: that data.
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Speaker 4: And we're not looking to monetize this. We are using
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Speaker 4: that data to train our algorithms so we can pick
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Speaker 4: up on those patterns, make it better, make it better,
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Speaker 4: identify a potential health issue, so we can send out
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Speaker 4: an alert to the caregiver or to the in themselves
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Speaker 4: and so they can take action.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's the key.
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Speaker 1: And in terms of you know, someone's out there going,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, this is great, but mom or dad,
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Speaker 1: they struggle with technology. I mean, they're not going to
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Speaker 1: know how to do this. They're not even know how
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Speaker 1: to install the app on their phone. And you know
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Speaker 1: they're a little distant from me. How am I going
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Speaker 1: to do this? That is where Tim comes in the
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Speaker 1: field text right.
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Speaker 5: We do the We do the installs ourselves before we
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Speaker 5: send the equipment out, or I take it out myself
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Speaker 5: and do the install. So the apps are installed. Most
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Speaker 5: of the most of the work that goes into doing
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Speaker 5: the installs. You know, it's done right there with the
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Speaker 5: person on hand, right, get the watch on them, show
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Speaker 5: them how the data comes through, and it's set up
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Speaker 5: in their home and that's it.
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Speaker 3: The watch, that's it. That's it, just and they just
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Speaker 3: have to charge it. They don't have to do anything.
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Speaker 4: And they even get notifications when they need to charge it.
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Speaker 4: It basically doesn't tell your little battery.
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Speaker 5: And one of the things that we didn't mention earlier
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Speaker 5: I don't think is we have fault detection. So if
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Speaker 5: there is a fall the the person's family member.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that'd be that you don't have to worry about
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Speaker 1: them pressing right, I fall in and can't get up
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Speaker 1: right and they know it right of all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but on top of it, we're being proactive.
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Speaker 3: So we actually remember I showed you the two percent
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Speaker 3: feed on the ground symmetry and the walking, so we're
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Speaker 3: getting ahead of the fall detection to where if we
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Speaker 3: see that the balance you want to explain the balance to.
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Speaker 4: Symmetry, we're tracking different metrics in terms of how you walk,
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Speaker 4: and then we can detect if your balance starts to
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Speaker 4: degrade and then maybe you can do physical therapy, or
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Speaker 4: maybe it's start to get a walker when we see
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Speaker 4: serious degradation of balance.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so we're trying to get ahead of the false Well, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, actually nothing but great in all of this, and
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Speaker 1: there's really no downside. All right, Well, let's talk about
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Speaker 1: the price, because this is where you know, the rubber
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Speaker 1: tends to meet throat all. It sounds great, but I
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Speaker 1: can't afford that. That's where Heart for Seniors really shows up,
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Speaker 1: as well as philanthropic people who want to help the
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Speaker 1: Heart for Seniors mission by making a donation. Patty, how's
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Speaker 1: that work?
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Speaker 3: Yes, we don't want to have to charge at all,
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Speaker 3: and as long long as we keep the donations coming in,
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Speaker 3: we're not going to charge. So worst case scenario, let's
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Speaker 3: just say we have no donations that have come in.
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Speaker 3: We're going to continue to support it. Our actual technology
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Speaker 3: itself is about ninety nine dollars a month in order
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Speaker 3: to have all the data and the support and the
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Speaker 3: tim going out to the house and things like that.
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Speaker 3: But our goal is to never have to charge it.
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Speaker 3: We're not charging it right now. If anybody calls and
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Speaker 3: wants to be on and once to try it, we've
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Speaker 3: even said try it. If after thirty ninety days you
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Speaker 3: don't like.
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Speaker 1: It, we'll tell us give it back, take it back.
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Speaker 1: Of course you will take it back.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we're not here to make money. We're here
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Speaker 2: for quality.
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Speaker 3: Care, improving the lives, improving the lives of seniors and
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Speaker 3: those with disabilities.
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Speaker 1: This is this is fantastic technology. Heart the number four
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Speaker 1: Seniors dot org. For my listeners who may not have
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Speaker 1: a laptop or a smart device, call us.
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Speaker 3: Here's the number, Patty five one three four four four
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Speaker 3: twenty thirteen. Please call us. We'd love to hear from you.
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Speaker 3: We want to help. And of course we still have
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Speaker 3: the skin tear technology, we still have the bandages, we
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Speaker 3: still have the incontinence care any and all. But we
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Speaker 3: finally have all the watches in so we're ready to
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Speaker 3: roll on the watches.
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Speaker 1: Get a watch. Five one three four four four twenty thirteen.
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Speaker 1: Heart four Seniors to get the watch, get the diapers,
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Speaker 1: get the wound care bandages, and right there upper right
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Speaker 1: hand corner, donate. Yes, please donate help a senior in
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Speaker 1: your community by donating hard for Seniors. I'll tell you what. Alex,
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Speaker 1: Tim and Patty God bless each and every one of
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Speaker 1: you for doing what you're doing and saving lives as
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Speaker 1: I point out, and I know you'll be back with
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Speaker 1: even greater improvements on this technology down the road. You
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Speaker 1: are committed to doing this car or to helping out
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Speaker 1: with this cause. Thank you very much, you all, no.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Brian.
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Speaker 3: You're literally your supporters. We hear all the time. I
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Speaker 3: trust Brian. I trust Brian. I listened to Brian all
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Speaker 3: the time, and they call us and tell us that
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Speaker 3: it's you.
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Speaker 2: I mean, really is your listener base.
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Speaker 1: I can never lie to anybody, and you sold me. Man.
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Speaker 1: I'm just glowed to be in a position where about it. Okay,
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Speaker 1: put a watch on me and also come to modern
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Speaker 1: technology if know the reason to help with the beta
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Speaker 1: stick around. Coming up next to Jack Windsor, editor in
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Speaker 1: chief of the Ohio Press Network, Will