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BARTLESVILLE HEALTH AND REHAB COMMUNITY · 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, it's all right.
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  Speaker 1: These folks know a lot of things. There are friends
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  Speaker 1: here from Bartlesville Health and Rehab.
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  Speaker 2: We have a Tammy Founder, director of Nursing.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, and also Janet Graham, who is here today's
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  Speaker 1: 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 Bartlesviille 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. It has
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  Speaker 4: my heart because I know that they care about their residence.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's something we run into and off a lot,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it. A lot of long term A lot of
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  Speaker 2: long term.
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  Speaker 1: Employees tell us about Bartsweel Health and rehab in particular
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  Speaker 1: here 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 6: 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 1: I want to get back to the rehab services first
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  Speaker 1: of all, for the folks who are there for a
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  Speaker 1: short time. I understand these little victories each and every day.
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  Speaker 1: You're kind of celebrated, aren't they.
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  Speaker 4: They are when someone comes to us after they've had
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  Speaker 4: a surgery or a brief illness. In the hospital, they
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  Speaker 4: get to a level that they 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 it
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  Speaker 4: if they're going to go home, we want them.
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  Speaker 3: To be able to go home.
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  Speaker 4: We try to encourage them to stick with us for
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  Speaker 4: a short period of time so that allows us to
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  Speaker 4: get them to the highest level of independence and safety
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  Speaker 4: possible so that their success and can make it back
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  Speaker 4: to their home.
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  Speaker 2: 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: a 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.
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  Speaker 2: Do some work.
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  Speaker 1: Does it get a little overwhelming the first couple of
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  Speaker 1: days for the typical typical person coming.
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  Speaker 3: Into it, it does.
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  Speaker 4: And I usually talk to them about you know, just
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  Speaker 4: stay with us, well, let's work this week and next week.
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  Speaker 4: Where you're going to look back and see where you
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  Speaker 4: were and where you are now. And that's how they
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  Speaker 4: can see their progress from week to week. They a
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  Speaker 4: lot of times feel like they're not doing well and
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  Speaker 4: will point out, hey, last week you couldn't walk five
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  Speaker 4: feet and today you walk sixty five feet. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: they're they're just because they they're their own worst critic. Basically,
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of a human thing, is so we basically
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  Speaker 4: they have to do the work, and we were quite
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  Speaker 4: 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 do we push a little.
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  Speaker 1: Bit, but that's good because you know, you can get
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  Speaker 1: some stubborn folks like me in there, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: without that little push or maybe a you know, box
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  Speaker 1: of dynamite or something like that. You know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to go too far. So I understand. You know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody is different and you have to work with him
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  Speaker 1: 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 they can be.
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  Speaker 3: 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's or.
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  Speaker 3: 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 3: That the more you can do what you can do
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  Speaker 3: for yourself, the happier you're going to be.
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  Speaker 4: You can live here and you can make a happy
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  Speaker 4: life here. That you'll be happiest if you do the
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  Speaker 4: majority of you know, like taking yourself to the bathroom
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  Speaker 4: or dressing yourself, or just getting out of the room
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  Speaker 4: and attending social events. Anything you can do to make
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  Speaker 4: yourself as independent as 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 6: Also that they can kind of transition over to.
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  Speaker 5: Oh and that is with one of our restorative as
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  Speaker 5: who's more specialty trained into helping, whether it be like
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  Speaker 5: a walk to dine, is one of the things that
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  Speaker 5: he does just to encourage people to still kind of work.
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  Speaker 5: They may not, you know, qualify to do skilled therapy,
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  Speaker 5: but he still works with them to okay, kind of
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  Speaker 5: keep a maintained baseline of being able to move around and.
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  Speaker 6: 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. Yeah, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do this today. I'm going to do this a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better tomorrow. This is my goal for today, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, with any luck, I can do a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better to it. It's very much a little series
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  Speaker 1: of individual challenges, isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely, And we encourage them just to be the
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  Speaker 4: best version of yourself each day, each day. And if
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  Speaker 4: you have a set back, don't let that determine the
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  Speaker 4: rest of your week or the rest of your life. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: there's always to let's try again and let's get better
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  Speaker 4: and better.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of times that's that's all it takes,
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  Speaker 1: is just that one more try, one more try.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. And of course with the memory care. We
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  Speaker 2: talked about that the last time you were here.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a wonderful thing because not that long ago,
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  Speaker 1: if your memory was kind of on pause or they're not,
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  Speaker 1: it just felt like people threw up their hands and
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  Speaker 1: just said, well, we're going to do the best we can.
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  Speaker 2: But now we've got more tools that are just.
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  Speaker 1: Fut to keep people, as you say, be the best
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  Speaker 1: possible you you can be for the 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 2: Oh yeah, nobody needs to be startled, nobody needs to
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  Speaker 2: be confused exactly.
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  Speaker 1: We can avoid that. You guys are special, kind of
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  Speaker 1: like angels on Earth. You're taking care of taking care
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  Speaker 1: of folks when they're having difficulty.
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  Speaker 2: Taking care of themselves. Yeah, it takes a special heart.
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  Speaker 2: 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 3: I mean, now I'm part of that Jerry population.
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  Speaker 4: So but it's it's funny because I don't feel like
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I still feel like I'm that younger person
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  Speaker 4: talking to him, but I do. I just feel like
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  Speaker 4: we owe them the life that we have, the freedoms
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  Speaker 4: that we have. Everything we owe that generation, you know,
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  Speaker 4: so say back to them.
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  Speaker 1: That is a beautiful story. That's a beautiful line of
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  Speaker 1: thinking too. My son, I'm sixty five, I'm not exactly
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  Speaker 1: a young fun but my son, who's forty five, says, Dad,
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  Speaker 1: what's it like being old? I looked at any person
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  Speaker 1: and I said, you look starting when I said that,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I am.
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  Speaker 2: I said, until I catch.
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  Speaker 1: A glance of myself in a reflection in a mirror
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  Speaker 1: or a window, a little glare or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still thirty thirty five years old.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not until I see a reflected image of
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  Speaker 1: myself that it dawns on me that I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: And I get the feeling that many of.
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  Speaker 1: Us as we age, that's pretty much where we are
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes who can't understand why is it I can't
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  Speaker 1: move like that anyfore? And it's very confounding. Is that
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  Speaker 1: part of the that's.
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  Speaker 3: Part of it, and part of it is that saying
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  Speaker 3: use it or lose it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I really encourage people to exercise and walk
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  Speaker 4: as my just 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 Barniwell 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.
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  Speaker 6: Just right behind the hospital, well the north of the hospital,
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  Speaker 6: I guess in Yardsville, north of the hospital thirty four
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  Speaker 6: thirty four Kentucky.
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  Speaker 2: Please can we come and visit and take a little.
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  Speaker 5: Cher absolutely come come in and anyone at the front
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  Speaker 5: who greets them, they can ask for a tour and
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  Speaker 5: one of us will will come and grab them and
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  Speaker 5: take them around and show them what things look like there.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, you day anytime, did they make a call,
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  Speaker 2: it'd probably be the best thing to do.
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  Speaker 5: Daytime, you're probably going to catch catch the more staff
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  Speaker 5: there to to show you around. But we're you know,
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  Speaker 5: we've got staff twenty four hours a day and they.
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  Speaker 6: 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, still garden.
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  Speaker 6: Growing some vegetables out there. They were carrying in peppers
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  Speaker 6: the other day. Alex was helping them.
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  Speaker 5: Pick pick peppers outside and brought them carrying it in.
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  Speaker 6: I think it was some.
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  Speaker 3: Tomatoes and oh just in time.
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  Speaker 6: 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,
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  Speaker 1: family ownership, local ownership.
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  Speaker 2: He's big dividends You're not a numbers.
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  Speaker 1: You're not somebody's a little dollar worry in New.
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  Speaker 2: York or l A. You're right here. You got a
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  Speaker 2: name and they use it. Yes, kind of a kind
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  Speaker 2: of a neat little community.
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  Speaker 6: When you think of that really is Yeah, we work.
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  Speaker 6: We work well as a team together. I mean even
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  Speaker 6: though 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 6: We all have to communicate together to make sure these
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  Speaker 6: 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 stories. And you knew at an early
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  Speaker 1: age you're going to be doing.
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  Speaker 6: In between marathons that she Oh you run marathons.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes I have.
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  Speaker 6: She's very active.
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  Speaker 1: I did that one time. Oh that was a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: It was a sponsored by Marathon Oil. So it was
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  Speaker 1: called the Marathon Marathon. Oh came in seven seventy third.
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  Speaker 1: I got beat by people twice 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, and I'm not going.
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  Speaker 3: Oh white, Well, I think that's that's true for real life.
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  Speaker 6: The finish line sometimes absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Train that's got to be crazy.
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  Speaker 4: It's it can be. It doesn't have to be insanely crazy.
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  Speaker 4: I've done more than just marathons, and.
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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 my goals one hundred milers were the
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  Speaker 4: thing 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 always.
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  Speaker 3: Good training for what I do.
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  Speaker 4: It takes your mental you know, toughness and it's a challenge,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and so a lot of times I just
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  Speaker 4: dig into that to.
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  Speaker 3: Work with a patient to show them, you know, their
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  Speaker 3: progress 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 barttwell health and rehab folks.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you.
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