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BARTLESVILLE HEALTH AND REHAB · One on One With a Professional

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: It's time now for one on one with a bro.
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  Speaker 1: Actually it's two on one, and it's okay.
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  Speaker 2: It's all right. These folks know a lot of things.
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  Speaker 2: There are friends here from.
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  Speaker 1: Bartlesville Health and Rehab. We have a Tammy Founder, director
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  Speaker 1: of Nursing. Hello, Hello, and also Janet Graham, who is
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  Speaker 1: here today's she's the director of Rehab.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 1: How are you? I will soon to be wonderful, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: because we're going to be talking about how we get
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  Speaker 1: better faster, and that is one of the cool things
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  Speaker 1: about Bartlesfield Health and Rehab is the rehab.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 4: I'm an occupational therapy assistant. I've worked at Bartlesville Health
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  Speaker 4: and Rehab for twenty seven years now. I've also worked
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  Speaker 4: part time or PRN at other facilities, and Bartlesville Health
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  Speaker 4: and Rehab has always just been my home.
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  Speaker 3: It has my heart because I know that they care
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  Speaker 3: about their residence.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's something we run into an awful lot,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of long term a lot of long term employees.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about Bartschweel Health and Rehab in particular here
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  Speaker 1: that give us the overarch well.
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  Speaker 5: It is owned by Alex Siminci Dald of course, and
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  Speaker 5: they're good friends of both of ours, and of course
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  Speaker 5: I'm kind of new to the facility, but it's a
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  Speaker 5: great place. They've you know, they they we have long
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  Speaker 5: term care, we have skilled uh nursing, we have of
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  Speaker 5: course the rehab that's happening. We got the new memory
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  Speaker 5: care that last time I was here we talked about,
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  Speaker 5: and uh, we've got a lot of good things happening new.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Cordell Rumsey came back and I've me and
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  Speaker 5: him kind of came along within the short time period together.
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  Speaker 5: So I think we're all just excited about the big
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  Speaker 5: changes and and what we can do to you know, uh,
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  Speaker 5: keep up with the market and keep up with the needs,
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  Speaker 5: and and take good care of our residents.
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  Speaker 2: To get back to the rehab services.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, for the folks who are there for
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  Speaker 1: a short time, I understand these little victories each and
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  Speaker 1: every day you're kind of celebrated, aren't they.
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  Speaker 3: They are when someone comes to.
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  Speaker 4: Us after they've had a surgery or a brief illness,
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  Speaker 4: in the hospital, they get to a level that they
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  Speaker 4: may not.
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  Speaker 3: Be able to get home quite safely.
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  Speaker 4: So they'll come to us as kind of transitional period, right,
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  Speaker 4: and we get to see them from the start, talk
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  Speaker 4: to them, talk to their families, find out their goals,
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  Speaker 4: and we make their goals our goals. We want to
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  Speaker 4: if they're going to go home, we want them to
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  Speaker 4: be able to go home. We try to encourage them
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  Speaker 4: to stick with us for a short period of time
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  Speaker 4: so that allows us to get them to the highest
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  Speaker 4: level of independence and safety possible so that their success
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  Speaker 4: and can make it back.
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  Speaker 2: To their home. That's great.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's got to be hard coming off of
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  Speaker 1: high hospital stay and then you know, you got a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of hope that you know, I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 1: back home, but I got to do some work. Does
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  Speaker 1: it get a little overwhelming the first couple of days
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  Speaker 1: for the typical typical person coming.
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  Speaker 3: Into it, it does. And I usually talk to them about.
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  Speaker 4: You know, just stay with us, well, let's work this
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  Speaker 4: week and next week. Where you're going to look back
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  Speaker 4: and see where you were and where you are now.
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  Speaker 4: And that's how they can.
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  Speaker 3: See their progress from week to week.
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  Speaker 4: They a lot of times feel like they're not doing
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  Speaker 4: well and will point out, hey, last week you couldn't
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  Speaker 4: walk five feet and today you walk sixty five feet.
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  Speaker 4: So you know they're they're just because they they're their
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  Speaker 4: own worst critic. Basically, that's kind of a human thing,
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  Speaker 4: is So we basically they have to do the work,
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  Speaker 4: and we were quite clear with them on that.
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  Speaker 3: We're just kind of the directors.
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  Speaker 4: We kind of guide them through the process.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, yes, so we we push a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's good because you know, you can get some
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  Speaker 1: stubborn folks like me in there, you know, and without
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  Speaker 1: that little push.
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  Speaker 2: Or maybe a you know, box of dynamite or something
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  Speaker 2: like that. You know, I'm not going to go too far.
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  Speaker 2: So I understand.
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  Speaker 1: You know, everybody is different and you have to work
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  Speaker 1: with him the best way you can engage and push forward.
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  Speaker 2: So that that's really great.
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  Speaker 1: So you got a little bit of psychology and a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of a whole lot of different tools at
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  Speaker 1: your toolbox to help people be the best.
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  Speaker 2: They can be. Yes, absolutely, my goodness sakes.
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  Speaker 1: And with the long term care folks, that's it's a
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  Speaker 1: little different, but we still work with them.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's a little different because the majority of them,
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  Speaker 4: because they're long term, they're going to be there. Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: long term care is only a couple of years. Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: it's for the rest of their lives. Sure, So we
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  Speaker 4: work on slowing the disease process as they get you know,
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  Speaker 4: like if they have Parkinson.
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  Speaker 3: Or COPD or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: We just work on them being as strong as independent
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  Speaker 4: as they can be in that facility so that they're
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  Speaker 4: much happier.
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  Speaker 1: That you can do for.
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  Speaker 4: Yourself, the happier you're going to be. You can live
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  Speaker 4: here and you can make a happy life here. That
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  Speaker 4: you'll be happiest if you do the majority of you know,
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  Speaker 4: like taking yourself to the bathroom or dressing yourself or
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  Speaker 4: just getting out of the room and attending social events.
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  Speaker 4: Anything you can do to make yourself as independent as
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  Speaker 4: possible will make you happier there.
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  Speaker 1: Just being independent enough to be social is probably a
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  Speaker 1: big thing for everyone.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And if they don't meet the skilled needs anymore,
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  Speaker 5: where maybe Jana or we have another friend named Gabe
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  Speaker 5: that helps her out. And we have a restorative program
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  Speaker 5: also that they can kind of transition over to. Oh
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  Speaker 5: and that is with one of our restorative aids who's
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  Speaker 5: more specialty trained to helping, whether.
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  Speaker 3: It be like a walk to dine.
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  Speaker 5: Is one of the things that he does just to
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  Speaker 5: encourage people to still kind of work.
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  Speaker 3: They may not, you know, qualify.
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  Speaker 5: To do skilled therapy, but he still works with them
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  Speaker 5: too kind of keep a maintained baseline of being able
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  Speaker 5: to move around and.
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  Speaker 3: Keep their body up to optimum.
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  Speaker 1: I can almost sense that some of the patients will
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  Speaker 1: establish like personal challenges for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to do this today. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: do this a little bit better tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: This is my goal for today, and you know, with
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  Speaker 1: any luck, I can do a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Better to it.
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  Speaker 1: It's very much a little series of individual challenges, isn't.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely Absolutely, we encourage them just to be the best
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  Speaker 4: version of yourself each day, each day and if you
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  Speaker 4: have a set back and don't let that determine the rest.
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  Speaker 3: Of your week or the of your life.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, there's ways tomorrow, let's try again, and let's get
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  Speaker 4: better and better.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of times that's all it takes is
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  Speaker 1: just that one more try.
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  Speaker 2: Now, one more try. That's great.
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  Speaker 1: And of course with the memory care we talked about
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  Speaker 1: that the last time you were here. But this is
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful thing because not that long ago, if your
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  Speaker 1: memory was kind of on pause or they're not, it
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  Speaker 1: just felt like people threw up their hands and just said, well,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do the best we can.
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  Speaker 2: But now we've got.
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  Speaker 1: More tools that are fused to keep people, as she say,
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  Speaker 1: be the best possible you you can be for the
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  Speaker 1: longest amount of time.
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  Speaker 5: And just because their memory care doesn't mean that they
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  Speaker 5: don't qualify for some skilled service. Jana has several that
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  Speaker 5: she goes back into the memory care unit and does
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  Speaker 5: some skilled therapy with them, and.
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  Speaker 3: Our speech therapist especially.
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  Speaker 4: She's just phenomenal when it comes to that because she
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  Speaker 4: can train the staff too on how to approach the
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  Speaker 4: person that has dementia or whatever, so that so that
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  Speaker 4: the communication is so much better and more comfortable for
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  Speaker 4: that resident.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, nobody needs to be startled, nobody needs to
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  Speaker 1: be confused, exactly. We can avoid that. You guys are special,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like angels on Earth. You're taking care of
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  Speaker 1: taking care of folks when they're having difficulty.
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  Speaker 2: Taking care of themselves.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It takes a special heart to do that, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: I've always known I was going to work in Jerias.
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  Speaker 4: I just have always felt like that we owe that
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  Speaker 4: generation everything.
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  Speaker 1: I had.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, now I'm part of that Jerry populations. So
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  Speaker 4: but it's it's funny because I don't feel like I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I still feel like I'm that younger person talking to
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  Speaker 4: him that I do. I just feel like we owe
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  Speaker 4: them the life that we have, the freedoms that we have.
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  Speaker 3: Everything we owe that generation, you know, so say it
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  Speaker 3: back to them.
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  Speaker 1: That is a beautiful story, a full line of thinking too.
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  Speaker 1: My son, I'm sixty five, I'm not exactly a young
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  Speaker 1: fun but my son, who's forty five, says, Dad, what's
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  Speaker 1: it like being old? I looked at any person and
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  Speaker 1: he said, you look starting when I said that, I said,
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  Speaker 1: I am. I said, until I catch a glance of
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  Speaker 1: myself in a reflection in a mirror or a window,
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  Speaker 1: a little glare or something like that. I'm still thirty
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  Speaker 1: thirty five years old, and it's not until I see
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  Speaker 1: a reflected image of myself that it dawns on me
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: And I get the feeling.
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  Speaker 1: That many of us, as we age, that's pretty much
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  Speaker 1: where we are, and sometimes we can't understand why is
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  Speaker 1: it I can't move like that anymore, and it's very confounding.
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  Speaker 2: Is that part of the.
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  Speaker 3: That's part of it, and part of it is that
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  Speaker 3: saying use it or lose it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I really encourage people to exercise and want
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  Speaker 4: as much as possible people out in the community, because
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  Speaker 4: when you stop, that's when it all especially as you're
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  Speaker 4: getting older, and if you get ill, it just kind
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  Speaker 4: of all goes away and then you have to start
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  Speaker 4: over again.
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  Speaker 1: With me that that is one of the best things
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  Speaker 1: you can do without having to see a doctor. Is
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you can go a mile a day,
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  Speaker 1: maybe two, and again you're not sprinting, you're just enjoying
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  Speaker 1: the outdoors. Yeah, just block out some time to do that.
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  Speaker 1: That pays dividends. Now at the Bartonswell Health and Rehab
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  Speaker 1: it's really easy to find. I understand that there's a
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  Speaker 1: heck of a landmark just right in front of you, just.
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  Speaker 3: Right behind the hospital, well the north of the hospital,
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  Speaker 3: I guess in Yardsville.
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  Speaker 5: North of the hospital thirty four thirty four Kentucky.
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  Speaker 2: Please can we come and visit and take a little look?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, come come in and anyone at the front who
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  Speaker 5: greets them, they can ask for a tour, and one
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  Speaker 5: of us will will come and grab them and take
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  Speaker 5: them around and show them what things look like there.
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  Speaker 1: And of course any time the day, anytime did they
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  Speaker 1: make a call, it'd probably be the best thing to
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  Speaker 1: day time, you're probably.
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  Speaker 5: Gonna catch catch the more staff there to to show
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  Speaker 5: you around. But we're you know, we've got staff twenty
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  Speaker 5: four hours a day and they all work hard.
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  Speaker 1: So and of course the residents they have a nice
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  Speaker 1: little social life going on there. I understand that Patio
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  Speaker 1: gets to work out the green spaces.
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  Speaker 3: Still garden growing some vegetables out there. They were carrying
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  Speaker 3: in peppers the other day. Alex was helping them pick.
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  Speaker 5: Pick peppers outside and brought them carrying it in.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was some tomatoes and oh just in time.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they love it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's got to be something here.
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  Speaker 1: When when the people who own the place actually work
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  Speaker 1: there and they go out there with the residents and
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  Speaker 1: they're getting dirty with them in the garden and just
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  Speaker 1: having a ball with each other, you realize that, you know, family,
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  Speaker 1: the ownership, local ownership.
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  Speaker 2: He's big dividends.
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  Speaker 1: You're not a number, You're absolutely you're not somebody's a
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  Speaker 1: little dollar worry in New York or LA.
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  Speaker 2: You're right here.
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  Speaker 1: You got a name and they use it. Yes, kind
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  Speaker 1: of a kind of a neat little community.
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  Speaker 2: Think that really is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we work, We work well as a team together.
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  Speaker 5: I mean even though.
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  Speaker 3: We have different departments.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, every day, you know, Jana has to come find
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  Speaker 5: a nurse or come find an aid to help with somebody.
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  Speaker 5: We all have to communicate together to make sure these
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  Speaker 5: residents get the best care.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is just amazing, and you know, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for sharing your story. And you knew at an early
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  Speaker 1: age you're going to be doing.
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  Speaker 4: Wow in between marathons that she Oh you run marathons sometimes,
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  Speaker 4: I have.
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  Speaker 3: She's very active.
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  Speaker 2: I did that one time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that was at It was sponsored by Marathon Oil,
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  Speaker 1: so it was called the Marathon Marathon. Oh came in
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  Speaker 1: seven and seventy third. I got beat by people twice
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  Speaker 1: my age.
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  Speaker 3: It happens. But you did it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well the finish line was uphill.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like going, oh, why, Well, I think that's that's
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  Speaker 1: true for real life.
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  Speaker 3: The finish line sometimes absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Training that's got to be crazy.
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  Speaker 3: It can be.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't have to be insanely crazy. I've done more
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  Speaker 4: than just marathons, and you.
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  Speaker 2: Do those triathlons too.
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  Speaker 4: No, I've done a couple of the mini ones, but
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  Speaker 4: I think my goals one hundred milers were the thing
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  Speaker 4: that I really really love to do.
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  Speaker 3: So it takes some little bit of time. That training
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  Speaker 3: is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: That's four that's roughly for marathon, but it's.
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  Speaker 4: Good training for what I do. It takes mental you know,
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  Speaker 4: toughness and it's a challenge, you know, and so a
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  Speaker 4: lot of times I just dig into that to work
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  Speaker 4: with a patient to show them, you know, their progress
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  Speaker 4: or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: So wow, that is just incredible.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank you both for sharing your story
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  Speaker 1: with us today and remember Bartletwell Health and Rehab folks,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you.