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

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Speaker 1: Eight o five and fifty five KCD Talks station a
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Speaker 1: very Happy Friday to you. Let's move over to something
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Speaker 1: that is truly happy. Born of problems and an ever
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Speaker 1: growing population of seniors out in the world needing assistance,
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Speaker 1: whether in the home or in an assisted living facility,
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Speaker 1: and the problems and complications that go along with that
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Speaker 1: because quite often they are not properly cared for, which
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Speaker 1: is a sad reality, but it is in fact a reality.
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Speaker 1: When I think of my dad in the facility when
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Speaker 1: he was dealing with his Alzheimers. My mom was there
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Speaker 1: every single day because, of course she loved him, but also,
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Speaker 1: of course because she was painfully aware of the realities
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Speaker 1: of being an assisted living facility and that he would
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Speaker 1: not be tended to her level of desire. And that
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Speaker 1: is literally the case everywhere. Welcome back to the fifty
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Speaker 1: five KOC Morning Show from Heart Number four Seniors dot Org,
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Speaker 1: Hard for Seniors dot R. We're going to talk about
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Speaker 1: what they are doing for seniors out there. Patty and
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Speaker 1: Roger back in the studio to talk about something that
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Speaker 1: I had no idea about now. Previously, Patty Roger, you
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Speaker 1: were talking about the modern technology you have the incontinence
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Speaker 1: undergarments to immediately notify staff through a software app that
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Speaker 1: someone needs to have their diaper change, because of course,
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Speaker 1: if they don't, they'll just follow the schedule that they're on,
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Speaker 1: and that person, your loved one, may be wallowing in
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Speaker 1: it for hours and hours before they ultimately reach the
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Speaker 1: place on the schedule, or they're dry when it comes
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Speaker 1: time for them to be checked on, and five seconds
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Speaker 1: after the nurse leaves the room, that's when it happens.
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Speaker 1: So the software as fires up and it provides a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of other information. It's just an amazing development
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Speaker 1: and thanks to Heart for Seniors for that. But the
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Speaker 1: reason that is a problem, I understand is wallowing and
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Speaker 1: that can lead to a urinary tract infection and that
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Speaker 1: is not good. But what else can lead to a
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Speaker 1: urinary tract infection? And I found that out this morning, laziness.
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Speaker 1: If I could sum it up, if I got that right,
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Speaker 1: Let's start with ro and Patty. I love having you here,
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Speaker 1: thank you, and I understand the phone's ringing off the
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Speaker 1: hook over hard for seniors.
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Speaker 2: We appreciate all the phone calls so much from all
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Speaker 2: of your listeners, all the donations, we really do appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, let's talk about the what's really going on
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Speaker 2: here with regards to laziness.
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Speaker 1: Well, and it started with this. You call this a TP. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: well it's a little tent. It's a little placard and
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Speaker 1: they brought it and immediately handed it to me and
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Speaker 1: it says do not insert urinary catheter without family consent.
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Speaker 1: I was looking at that. Wait a second, why would
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Speaker 1: anybody just sort of randomly use a catheter on someone.
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Speaker 1: Roger's got the answer to that, and it's sad and disturbing.
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Speaker 1: Roger explain how this happens and why it's a bad thing.
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Speaker 3: Well, there are reasons for using a urinary catheter a
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Speaker 3: foley catheter, which are pretty well spelled out by the
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Speaker 3: CDC guidelines. But what we see often happening as we
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Speaker 3: have patients, in particular in the hospital environment, where the
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Speaker 3: person's using the call light to go to the bathroom
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Speaker 3: or you know, they're they're having incontinent needs and they
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Speaker 3: summon the staff and this becomes a problem and at
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Speaker 3: some point the staff decides, well, we're just going to
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Speaker 3: insert a catheter, and that is not an appropriate reason.
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Speaker 3: That's a staff convenience issue. That is not an appropriate
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Speaker 3: reason to insert a catheter. And this is really a
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Speaker 3: problem because catheter associated UTIs are the highest reason for
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Speaker 3: infections in the hospital environment.
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Speaker 1: Well, you're introducing a foreign object in an area that
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Speaker 1: shouldn't have a foreign object in under normal conditions, and
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Speaker 1: I would think that is a ripe opportunity to bring
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Speaker 1: about an infection.
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Speaker 3: Correct. And so what we see happening in particular with
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Speaker 3: the seniors is about seventy five percent of these people
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Speaker 3: are going to get UTI. It's a very high infection rate.
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Speaker 3: And once they have that UTI, it goes to the bladder,
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Speaker 3: it goes to the kidneys that can go to the bloodstream.
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Speaker 3: It's a high mortality rate for seniors. In particular, for seniors,
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Speaker 3: they're vulnerable to this. So, yeah, this came up in
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Speaker 3: our technology pilot that we're doing. We've seen it happen
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Speaker 3: a number of times now, so you know, at this
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Speaker 3: point we think it's an education and an advocacy issue.
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Speaker 3: The best way to handle this is to communicate with
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Speaker 3: the staff of the hospital as much as you can,
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Speaker 3: as effectively as you can that you do not want
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Speaker 3: that cather inserted unless there's an appropriate reason for it.
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Speaker 1: Well, and you know, again, I had no idea that
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Speaker 1: this was a problem. It's born of laziness. They don't
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Speaker 1: want to deal with having to do a diaper change
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Speaker 1: or something. But the person doesn't really need a catheter
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Speaker 1: because everything I guess is functioning quote unquote normally. But
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Speaker 1: that they would come in and just put it in.
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Speaker 1: I always thought that if there was a catheter in place,
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Speaker 1: and that was because a doctor ordered it, I didn't
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Speaker 1: realize they had the leeway and liberty to just go
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Speaker 1: ahead and put one in anytime they damn well felt well.
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Speaker 3: Actually, it's the opposite of that. Sometimes. I think Patty's
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Speaker 3: mother when she was in the hospital had an order
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Speaker 3: on the chart to not put why not use a
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Speaker 3: urinary cath a specific order.
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Speaker 2: I had a specific order to not put a cather
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Speaker 2: in her because if you remember, we've talked about this
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Speaker 2: years prior to that, she had broken her hip. They
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Speaker 2: had used a catherterin surgery and they didn't take it
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Speaker 2: out for days. After we kept saying it, she dealt
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Speaker 2: with a UTI for nine months. Oh, we couldn't get
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Speaker 2: rid of it. So then she was back in the
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Speaker 2: hospital for a completely different reason I specifically put in
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Speaker 2: the order, do not cather her. She needs assistance to
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Speaker 2: get up to go to the bathroom. But it works.
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Speaker 2: She's not incontinent, she can hold it until she gets there.
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Speaker 2: She kept ringing, ring and ring and ring and ring
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Speaker 2: and ring, and they wouldn't come in, they wouldn't get
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Speaker 2: her up, and so at night they caught her, even
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Speaker 2: though I had a note in the file not to cathere.
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Speaker 2: Immediately went back in the next day and told him
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Speaker 2: to pull it because and again she got a UTI.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, just in that short time period. It was
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Speaker 2: so frustrating.
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Speaker 1: Well, put the explanation point on Roger's pointed out, you
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Speaker 1: can die from these infections.
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Speaker 2: My father in law died of sepsis from a UTI
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Speaker 2: in twenty four hours from a catheter, from a from
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Speaker 2: a catheter.
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Speaker 3: I would say the numbers that we've seen, as much
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Speaker 3: as seventy five percent of the UTIs that occurrent hospitals
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Speaker 3: are from the catheters.
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Speaker 1: Not a quote unuote naturally occurring thing. No, because you
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Speaker 1: can get a UTI without a catheter, correctly correct.
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Speaker 3: It is the most common calls of secondary bloodstream infections,
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Speaker 3: and those are deadly. That's a trip to ICU. At
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Speaker 3: that point, you're in trouble. And so why would we
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Speaker 3: want to use a catheter because somebody's using their call
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Speaker 3: light or because somebody needs assistance going to the bathroom,
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Speaker 3: And that then becomes staff convenience And it's absolutely not
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Speaker 3: a reason to do this. And when you're doing this
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Speaker 3: with a thirty year old, that's one thing. But when
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Speaker 3: you're doing this to an eighty year old or a
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Speaker 3: seventy five year old or an eighty five year old,
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Speaker 3: you're now dealing with a completely different problem. A lot
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Speaker 3: of these folks just don't recover and it's a pretty
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Speaker 3: common cause of death. So we want to educate, We
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Speaker 3: want to we want to teach families how to advocate
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Speaker 3: because these people need advocates they do. They really need
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Speaker 3: family members to step up and say no, no, no.
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Speaker 3: So we came up with HEART did this.
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Speaker 1: Tent.
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Speaker 3: It's like a folding tent you can put on the
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Speaker 3: bedside table. It's a sign that says do not insert
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Speaker 3: yourinary catheter without family consent. We're giving these away heart Is.
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Speaker 2: They're free. All you have to do is reach out
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Speaker 2: five one, three, four for four twenty thirteen. You can
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Speaker 2: email us, you can call. We're sending these out free.
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Speaker 2: Along with that one page little flyer there that gives
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Speaker 2: them the CDC guidelines does cut what's real and what's not.
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Speaker 1: Also, it's not just some sort of random march arbitrary
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Speaker 1: thing coming from a family member. Here is our placard
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Speaker 1: saying do not do it without our consent, and here's
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Speaker 1: the CDC guidelines go along with it and telling you
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Speaker 1: exactly why. Correct. Oh, that's outstanding. Correct, that's outstanding. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know the website, as they pointed out, you can
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Speaker 1: get your plackard through the website too. Just click on advocacy.
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Speaker 1: There's a pulldown many's at the top of heart number
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Speaker 1: four seniors dot org. Click on advocacy, get your placard.
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Speaker 1: Call it a tpe, called a tent. It's a piece
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Speaker 1: of paper that folds into something that stands upright and says,
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Speaker 1: do not insert yourn a catheter without family consent. Now
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Speaker 1: is there? I'm sorry, I'm still a lawyer. Is there
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Speaker 1: liability connected with this? Because if they're not under CDC
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Speaker 1: guidelines supposed to insert a catheter and they do it
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Speaker 1: simply because they don't want to respond to the calllite
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Speaker 1: and that leads to a urinary tract infection, which leads
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Speaker 1: to the death of a loved one. Is that exposed
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Speaker 1: the Obviously, I'm saying this out loud in these pigg
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Speaker 1: terms because people in the healthcare community might hear my
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Speaker 1: voice and go, oh jeez, I didn't realize we might
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Speaker 1: be sued for that. Is that potential right there?
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Speaker 3: That sort of well, absolutely, you go, and the CDC
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Speaker 3: makes it very clear that catheters are not to be
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Speaker 3: used as a substitute for nursing care, period you go, period.
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Speaker 3: And when they do this as a substitute for nursing care,
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Speaker 3: they just violated the CDC guidelines for use of these.
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Speaker 3: All right, So yeah, I think there's liability. But here's
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Speaker 3: the thing, if you think about it, when people go
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Speaker 3: in the hospital, when their loved ones in the hospital,
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Speaker 3: we have this almost unbending trust that the hospitals are
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Speaker 3: the pinnacle of our healthcare system and they're going to
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Speaker 3: just do the right thing. They're not going to do
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Speaker 3: anything like this to our loved one. This is where
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Speaker 3: education and advocacy comes in, because if you don't know,
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Speaker 3: if you haven't educated yourself on this issue, and if
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Speaker 3: you don't advocate, You're going to come in and tomorrow
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Speaker 3: morning when you visit your mom or your dad, and
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Speaker 3: there's going to be a catheter in them. So the
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Speaker 3: idea here is to stop that before it happens by
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Speaker 3: putting the sign up, maybe getting an order on the chart,
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Speaker 3: which they will ignore sometimes, Patty, but you have to advocate.
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Speaker 1: You have to advocate. You have to protect.
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Speaker 3: Your elderly loved ones from this problem because it will happen.
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Speaker 1: Period. It will happen. Two people sitting in front of
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Speaker 1: me the seat all the time, one who lost her
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Speaker 1: father as a consequence of this happening. In spite of
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Speaker 1: the order in the chart, do not insert your in
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Speaker 1: a catheter without family consent. Get your placard at heartfort
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Speaker 1: Seniors dot com. Call them up at five one, three,
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Speaker 1: four four four, twenty thirteen. More info from Heart for Seniors,
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Speaker 1: Patty and Roger. After these brief words, don't go away.
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Speaker 4: Fifty five krc RC the talk station.
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Speaker 1: Hey, twenty fifty five KRCD Talk Station, Very happy Friday
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Speaker 1: to you. Distressing news, but I am so happy to
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Speaker 1: be in a position to let other people know about this.
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Speaker 1: I certainly had no clue in spite of the fact
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Speaker 1: my dad was in an assistant living facility and did
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Speaker 1: have a cather to one point over use of catheters,
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Speaker 1: there are inappropriate uses and their appropriate uses for catheters,
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Speaker 1: and so Heart for Seniors Patty Roger here with their
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Speaker 1: little placard, which you can get by simply calling five
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Speaker 1: one three four four four twenty thirteen free for you.
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Speaker 1: Go to the website Heart number four Seniors dot org,
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Speaker 1: click on the advocacy link get your placard. There it says,
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Speaker 1: do not insert your ain area catheter without family consent.
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Speaker 1: They're using them inappropriately as a substitute for obtaining your inspecimens.
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Speaker 1: For example, for dealing with a senior that might need
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Speaker 1: to get assistance to go to the bathroom, not for incontinence,
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Speaker 1: just because it's inconvenient for the staff to have to
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Speaker 1: respond to a call aid. So in goes a catheter
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Speaker 1: and along with that a good chance of getting a
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Speaker 1: urinary tract infection, which for most, notably the senior community,
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Speaker 1: we learn from Roger that they could be deadly. Patty
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Speaker 1: knows from this personally her father died from UTI that
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Speaker 1: he shouldn't have had a catheter in him and they
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Speaker 1: put it in anyway. Let's address the pushback patty. His
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Speaker 1: chart said do not use a catheter. They did it anyway.
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Speaker 1: And I know that you've had some experience with these
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Speaker 1: little placards that some institutions welcomed them and will honor them,
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Speaker 1: while others will remove them from the patient's room. It
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Speaker 1: depends on who you're dealing with.
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Speaker 2: So we just started the advocacy a few weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: We've already had one local hospital that embraced it, completely
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Speaker 2: supported it, sat their bedside, The family loved it. They
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Speaker 2: had open communication, and I'm happy to report the senior
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Speaker 2: did not get a catheter inserted in and they came
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Speaker 2: in and they helped him to the restroom and he
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Speaker 2: got out totally fine and he's back home, wonderful. We
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Speaker 2: had another situation and another institution where the tent was
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Speaker 2: removed and stayed.
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Speaker 1: A placard because it's a state tent. I think of
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Speaker 1: that camping.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little tpe. It's a little it's a
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Speaker 2: little triangle tpe.
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Speaker 1: It's not very large.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's per It just sits right bedside. You can
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Speaker 2: see a picture of it on our website. And they
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Speaker 2: took it out. They took it out then said that
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Speaker 2: we had to meet with hospital administration and the family
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Speaker 2: was like why, Like I want this on the chart.
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Speaker 2: Like all I'm saying is don't insert a catheter until
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Speaker 2: you call me and tell me why why.
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Speaker 1: And then you can look at the appropriate indications, which
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Speaker 1: information hard for seniors will give you along with a
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Speaker 1: TP ten placard. Call it what you will when is
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Speaker 1: it appropriate acute urinary retention or bladder outlet obstruction? So
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Speaker 1: a family member can say why are you inserting the
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Speaker 1: catheter when there's no obstruction, When they have the conversation,
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Speaker 1: and then they can go through and say why, Well,
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Speaker 1: because your father has acute urinary retention, you can say, okay,
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Speaker 1: that's a reason, and it justifies the cath use other
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Speaker 1: accurate other reasons, accurate measurement of urinary output in critically
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Speaker 1: ill patients, perioperative use for selected surgical procedures, check assistance
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Speaker 1: in healing open sacral or paranial wounds, fine, patient requires
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Speaker 1: prolonged and mobilization, unstable spine, multiple traumatic injuries, fine, and finally,
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Speaker 1: end of life comfort care. So in those situations it's justified.
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Speaker 1: But if you have the conversation with a family member,
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Speaker 1: my medical provider friends, you can at least explain it
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Speaker 1: to them. This is within the CDC guidelines on what
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Speaker 1: you are proposing to do, in which case the family
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Speaker 1: member can say, okay, I consent, Catherin problem solved.
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Speaker 4: Correct.
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Speaker 1: That's the process. That's the process.
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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, what happens instead is second shift nurse decides to
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Speaker 3: insert to catheter because they're short stout, they're busy, they
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Speaker 3: don't want to answer the call light. And now we've
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Speaker 3: introduced a deadly in fact potentially deadly infection to a
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Speaker 3: senior and it's just a sad outcome at that point.
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Speaker 1: Well, and you know, I will observe and comment maybe
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Speaker 1: again from this because we've talked about it before. It
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Speaker 1: is very difficult, like with senior living facilities to get
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Speaker 1: people to even work there, and when they do work there,
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Speaker 1: they usually underpaid. And overworld they've got more people than
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Speaker 1: they're taken care of them. They should be taken care of.
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Speaker 1: Following that again, checking the linens and the diapers schedule,
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Speaker 1: there's only so much of those people can do, but
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Speaker 1: heartforce seniors hard. The number four Seniors dot org has
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Speaker 1: got great technology not to stand in the way of
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Speaker 1: them wanting to do some easy path out of dealing with
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Speaker 1: your loved one long while by like inserting urinary cathers,
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Speaker 1: but getting the software and the diapers that tell the
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Speaker 1: individuals there and that they need to be changed as
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Speaker 1: opposed to following the schedule just doing it when it's necessary.
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Speaker 1: Simple things like that can make their jobs much easier
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Speaker 1: and maybe even making a more appealing profession to pursue.
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Speaker 1: It's a tough gig.
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Speaker 2: It's a tough gig, and so many families. Now, I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'm a sandwich generation. I've got my parents and I've
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Speaker 2: got my kids, and I'm right stuck in the middle,
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Speaker 2: still working. And I mean, here's the deal.
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Speaker 1: We're all.
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Speaker 2: I mean, my mom's independent living at home. Your mom's
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Speaker 2: independent living in it.
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Speaker 3: She is.
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Speaker 2: They want to stay at home, and I want them
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Speaker 2: to stay at home, but we need the tools. So like,
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Speaker 2: my mom has the watch right and she's not in
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Speaker 2: continent yet.
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Speaker 1: So I'll tell you what hold on that. Since we
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Speaker 1: really dedicated a good amount of time in the first
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Speaker 1: couple of segments to the urinary tract issue, people now
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Speaker 1: know about it and can call five one, three, four, four, four,
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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, let's remind people about the watch and the
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Speaker 1: other technology because this, if you haven't heard about it,
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Speaker 1: this is going to make everyone's life much better. Whether
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Speaker 1: you're a provider, or you're the loved one in bed
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Speaker 1: getting tended to, or you're a family member of the
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Speaker 1: loved one and you feel like you're a witch end,
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Speaker 1: let's make your life easier. Heart number four seniors dot
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Speaker 1: or don't go away. We'll bring them back and share
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Speaker 1: their experiences. And they want you to share your stories too.
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Speaker 1: If you've got a urinary tract infection story, it sounds
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Speaker 1: weird to ask for it, you can get that on
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Speaker 1: you can post it online at Heart for Seniors dot
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Speaker 1: or correct and you're you want people, we want to share.
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Speaker 2: Their We want their stories because we want to be
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Speaker 2: able to help them, and we want to educate other people.
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Speaker 2: And we're going to post those stories with their permission,
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Speaker 2: just to have them out there.
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Speaker 4: Again.
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Speaker 2: It's about education and add see, we have to educate
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Speaker 2: family members on how to take care of these seniors.
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Speaker 1: You got to educate providers as well. Apparently eight twenty
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Speaker 1: things for seniors that are dealing with get an assisted
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Speaker 1: living facility or getting care at home. Obviously frail, maybe
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Speaker 1: struggling with other medical complications. Family members worried about them,
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Speaker 1: keeping track of them, helping out when they can other
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Speaker 1: people like care providers and assisted living facilities or in hospitals.
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Speaker 1: They have a lot of work on their plate, and
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Speaker 1: quite often, as we found out in the last couple
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Speaker 1: of segments, they're well taking a shortcut route putting it
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Speaker 1: a catheter in when they are not under a CDC
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Speaker 1: guidelines to even get a catheter. So you can get
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Speaker 1: your little placard, put it next to your loved one's bed.
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Speaker 1: No catheter without family consent, Fine, do that. It's easy
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Speaker 1: to get the placard five one three, four four four
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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. But moving away from the UTIs I've had
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Speaker 1: you folks on this as Patty and Roger in studio
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Speaker 1: from Hard for Seniors about the advancements in technology that
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Speaker 1: is helping I would say family members as well as
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Speaker 1: medical providers perhaps get ahead of problems and solve some
18:18
Speaker 1: of the issues with this wonderful diagnostic tool that that
18:21
Speaker 1: watch has become. So remind my listeners and those who
18:25
Speaker 1: don't know what you're going to be talking about about
18:27
Speaker 1: this amazing, amazing thing that everybody hearing my voice can
18:30
Speaker 1: get for their loved one. It's a smart watch, but
18:33
Speaker 1: it's a whole lot smarter than a smart watch.
18:35
Speaker 2: It is it's alert response technology, and it's really taking
18:38
Speaker 2: the watch and putting it with our software system, which
18:40
Speaker 2: is what is the most powerful piece ever.
18:43
Speaker 1: That's the app.
18:44
Speaker 2: That's the app, and it now can be used for
18:46
Speaker 2: home base. And here's the deal with it. So you go,
18:49
Speaker 2: your loved one goes to the doctor's office maybe once
18:52
Speaker 2: a year or twice a year, they get their vitals
18:55
Speaker 2: and they leave, right, nobody knows after they leave from
18:59
Speaker 2: that one in take of the vitals, what really goes on.
19:02
Speaker 2: This is twenty four seven monitoring and not just heart rate,
19:07
Speaker 2: not just pull socks, not just HRV, two feet on
19:11
Speaker 2: the ground, symmetry walking. I mean, my mom, right, I
19:14
Speaker 2: mean I can detect early on. I want to prevent
19:16
Speaker 2: a fall. I don't want more falls. And what's really
19:19
Speaker 2: interesting is it takes in time. So for example, last night,
19:23
Speaker 2: I can pull up and see exactly what her low
19:26
Speaker 2: heart rate, what her high heart rate was when it
19:28
Speaker 2: was all the above, and there is a correlation, for example,
19:32
Speaker 2: in when she takes her medication. So everybody should understand
19:36
Speaker 2: because we've had members that have been working with us
19:39
Speaker 2: who kept falling and the family members were like, why
19:41
Speaker 2: are they falling? Put the technology on and we're realizing, well,
19:45
Speaker 2: it's at five am, it's at seven am. Well, ironically
19:48
Speaker 2: it's after they've taken their medication. So for example, if
19:52
Speaker 2: you're on a medication, it's very sensitive the older that
19:55
Speaker 2: you get.
19:56
Speaker 1: Okay, And one of the ones that Roger brought up
19:58
Speaker 1: in the break was Flomax trouble urinating. You're getting up
20:01
Speaker 1: three four times at night. Guys, quite often they'll put
20:03
Speaker 1: you on Flowmax, but sadly, as you get older, for.
20:06
Speaker 2: An eighty five year old, it was making them dizzy
20:09
Speaker 2: and causing faults. They took our reports and the data
20:14
Speaker 2: to their doctor. He looked at it and he was like, wow,
20:19
Speaker 2: I'm taking you off a flow Maax took him off
20:21
Speaker 2: of Flowmax. Haven't had any false no.
20:23
Speaker 3: False Sense's what's really interesting, and I think as the
20:27
Speaker 3: critical part of this to not miss is we're flowing
20:30
Speaker 3: a lot, a lot of data. Yes, it's a lot,
20:34
Speaker 3: and we've developed a very powerful artificial intelligence engine which
20:40
Speaker 3: takes that data and produces for the family and for
20:45
Speaker 3: the physician and analysis of all the data and summarizes
20:51
Speaker 3: it into a couple of paragraphs and describes medically what
20:56
Speaker 3: might be going on here.
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Speaker 1: And it's a hints in suggestion, not necessarily conclusions, but
21:01
Speaker 1: here are some things you might want to look at,
21:02
Speaker 1: the possible recommendations. And then we have human in the loop, right,
21:07
Speaker 1: have the doctor involved so he can look at those
21:10
Speaker 1: that report. If he doesn't want to look at days
21:13
Speaker 1: and days of data, he gets a very powerful AI
21:17
Speaker 1: engine summarizing for him what might be going on here
21:23
Speaker 1: and giving him suggestions. Yeah, and you think about that again,
21:26
Speaker 1: going back to your point on it, it's twenty four
21:27
Speaker 1: to seven is being collected twenty four hours day, seven
21:31
Speaker 1: days a week. There's not a physical I don't care
21:33
Speaker 1: how many times you go see your doctor. No one
21:35
Speaker 1: has that amount of information about somebody.
21:37
Speaker 3: No, and it's a senior focused AI region. It's not.
21:43
Speaker 1: So it's not I would wear one necessarily, although I'm
21:46
Speaker 1: getting up in years. But it isn't for me, it's
21:48
Speaker 1: for folks.
21:48
Speaker 3: I would recommend it for anybody because if to me,
21:53
Speaker 3: no matter how old or young you are, he could
21:55
Speaker 3: have a problem and not know it true until something happened, right,
22:00
Speaker 3: and it makes you aware of it. And so what
22:02
Speaker 3: this does is it streams all this data and then
22:07
Speaker 3: analyzes it for you. AI is an amazing tool. It
22:12
Speaker 3: can be properly extremely.
22:15
Speaker 1: Powerful doctor and Dave had her this morning for Tech Friday.
22:19
Speaker 1: It isn't always great thing, but it can be. And
22:22
Speaker 1: you know, I've always viewed AI just from a ten
22:24
Speaker 1: thousand foot perspective, since I'm not cast savvy on things
22:28
Speaker 1: medical necessarily or AI, but it is it seems to
22:33
Speaker 1: be a perfect tool for medicine because what doctor in
22:38
Speaker 1: the world is the ultimate perfect diagnostician, What doctor in
22:42
Speaker 1: the world has all of this information and what doctor
22:45
Speaker 1: in the world could just literally take all the information
22:47
Speaker 1: to the extents right in front of him and crunch
22:49
Speaker 1: it down and put it into one neatly digestible piece
22:52
Speaker 1: of boiled down information. AI does all.
22:54
Speaker 2: That, and the issue is too Brian is here in Cincinnati.
22:57
Speaker 2: We have multiple wonderful healthcare systems, but especially seniors. They'll
23:01
Speaker 2: have a cardiologist, they'll have a pomonologist, they'll have a
23:04
Speaker 2: kidney doctor. Sometimes they're not all on my chart together,
23:08
Speaker 2: so they're actually prescribing different medications and no one's actually
23:14
Speaker 2: looking the polypharmacies. It's huge, a huge issue in seniors, these.
23:18
Speaker 1: Medicines in or are I know, you know, And that
23:20
Speaker 1: was the other thing I was thinking about. Pharmacists were
23:23
Speaker 1: the ones that usually were used to be charged with
23:25
Speaker 1: knowing what drug interactions can be tolerated and where the
23:29
Speaker 1: red flags pop up. I don't know that they're even
23:31
Speaker 1: doing that anymore. That's just me speaking out of turn, perhaps,
23:34
Speaker 1: But someone's got to know what the end individual who's
23:38
Speaker 1: taking the drugs all about, all the drugs and all
23:40
Speaker 1: the information. So when someone starts following, you may be
23:42
Speaker 1: able to deduce that, oh gee, it's that addition of
23:44
Speaker 1: flows back.
23:44
Speaker 3: It goes back to advocacy. Okay, the pharmacist is not
23:48
Speaker 3: your advocate. Your son or your daughter is right, or
23:53
Speaker 3: your loved one somebody who really cares about you. And
23:57
Speaker 3: the way this system works is we communicate with this
24:00
Speaker 3: SAB not just with the patient, but the son, the daughter,
24:05
Speaker 3: two daughters and two sons can all.
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Speaker 1: Right now, mom, Hey, your vital signs are looking really good.
24:14
Speaker 3: To say you can advocate when you have information, yes
24:17
Speaker 3: you can, but you can't when you don't.
24:19
Speaker 2: And let me say one last thing, and I hate
24:21
Speaker 2: to say this, but I'm going to say it. We
24:24
Speaker 2: can't continue to advance this technology without funding.
24:26
Speaker 1: That's true.
24:27
Speaker 2: And I'm going to say something here that might be
24:29
Speaker 2: a little off base, but I'm going to say it anyway.
24:31
Speaker 2: All of our funding has come from individuals. We have
24:35
Speaker 2: not had any company step up, really none, No companies
24:40
Speaker 2: have stepped up. They're all donations from individuals. We would
24:43
Speaker 2: love a Cincinnati based company to care and really help
24:48
Speaker 2: us donate. They're small little donations that come in and
24:51
Speaker 2: they're fine. But I don't understand why companies are not
24:55
Speaker 2: supporting our senior.
24:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is tax deductible five oh one three C
24:58
Speaker 1: type of organization we're talking out here, So it is
25:01
Speaker 1: a and what a societal benefit, Oh my word. If
25:05
Speaker 1: you can get ahead of these medical problems and you
25:07
Speaker 1: don't end up with a UTI or a fall or
25:09
Speaker 1: a hip break or anything that saves everybody a heapload
25:12
Speaker 1: of money. All Right, we'll bring them back because there's
25:15
Speaker 1: I just kind of want to get not only just
25:16
Speaker 1: to boil down a summary of the technology you have
25:19
Speaker 1: it hard for seniors, but also we'll give out the
25:21
Speaker 1: information on how people can help out because they are
25:24
Speaker 1: really doing God's work here Hard for seniors. Don't go wait,
25:28
Speaker 1: it's eight thirty eight right now. If you have KRCIT talk.
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Speaker 4: Station fifty five, KARC the talk station, Hey forty one
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Speaker 4: fifty about KRCD talk station Patty and Rodger from hard
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Speaker 4: number four Seniors dot org and pivoting over over the
25:42
Speaker 4: breakdown even more wonderful information.
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Speaker 1: Okay, who out there is got a senior loved one?
25:47
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking of Mom mom when you can't reach
25:52
Speaker 1: them on the phone. Mom's got a cell phone, Mom's
25:54
Speaker 1: got a landline. If I call both of those and
25:56
Speaker 1: she doesn't answer either of them. She's eighty six, she
25:58
Speaker 1: does live alone, she can still and she gets around.
26:01
Speaker 1: That freaks me out. Where is she?
26:05
Speaker 3: Well?
26:06
Speaker 1: Could be a phone problems. She's had some of those lately.
26:07
Speaker 1: But you have an answer and a solution to that problem.
26:09
Speaker 1: Going back to the app you can get from Hard
26:11
Speaker 1: for Seniors and the watch problem solved, problem solved. Where's
26:15
Speaker 1: your mom right now?
26:17
Speaker 2: My mom actually is a I know exactly where she
26:19
Speaker 2: and Delia, and I also know her heart is beating
26:22
Speaker 2: and her pull sox is good and she has HRV.
26:25
Speaker 1: But there's peace of mind.
26:26
Speaker 2: It's peace of mind. It actually happened to me personally
26:28
Speaker 2: last night. My cousin called panicking and anyway, long story short,
26:32
Speaker 2: she was sleeping, but we had the watch on her,
26:34
Speaker 2: so we knew vitally she was doing well. And however,
26:40
Speaker 2: this one, we've had a lot of members call us
26:44
Speaker 2: begging because they're seeing early signs of dementia and people
26:48
Speaker 2: are starting to leave their home. And these are people
26:50
Speaker 2: that are living at home. Their spouses are wanting to
26:53
Speaker 2: keep them at home. But a scary thing is is
26:55
Speaker 2: you go to yoga class, so you go to the
26:57
Speaker 2: grocery and you come back and all of a sudden,
26:59
Speaker 2: someone has left the premise. So we actually are testing
27:03
Speaker 2: right now. It's it will be released here in the
27:05
Speaker 2: next several weeks. Our GPS segment to the watch and
27:09
Speaker 2: it's got two features geo fencing, so we can set
27:12
Speaker 2: a perimeter of two hundred feet or whatever the distances
27:15
Speaker 2: that you want. If somebody leaves the house, it will
27:17
Speaker 2: alert you alert response technology.
27:19
Speaker 1: That's better than the ankle bracelets we have in the
27:21
Speaker 1: state of Ohio for felons who have been put on
27:23
Speaker 1: probation in their own homes and aren't allowed to leave
27:25
Speaker 1: and then cut them off and wander around for months
27:27
Speaker 1: only to go and kill somebody in their own apartment.
27:30
Speaker 1: And then also yours actually were or will work.
27:35
Speaker 2: It does and then you can actually find them. So
27:38
Speaker 2: that's the second piece of it is you can actually
27:40
Speaker 2: locate exactly where they are.
27:41
Speaker 3: There's a map where and you can go get them.
27:46
Speaker 1: What amazing peace of mind that bring about so over
27:51
Speaker 1: at the website again Heart number four Seniors Thought or
27:53
Speaker 1: right the upright hand corner, you can do a donate button.
27:56
Speaker 1: If there's a business out there and you're looking for
27:57
Speaker 1: a worthy worthwhile charity. I can't think of something better.
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Speaker 1: This is money saving, life saving, peace of mind providing.
28:06
Speaker 1: It's good for providers, it's good for your loved one,
28:08
Speaker 1: it's good for you. There is no downside. And I'll
28:10
Speaker 1: tell you what. Next time I get my chemo treatment,
28:12
Speaker 1: I'm taking over your bandages. The skin tear bandages seniors
28:17
Speaker 1: deal with this all. This is one of the first
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Speaker 1: things that you and I ever talked about, Patty for
28:20
Speaker 1: Heart for Seniors. Senior's skin is frail and it rips easily,
28:24
Speaker 1: like a simple band aid will tear the skin, and
28:27
Speaker 1: of course that's an opportunity for infection. Of course it's
28:29
Speaker 1: a pain in the butt if that's where the bandage was. Anyway,
28:32
Speaker 1: But every time I go and I get the line
28:33
Speaker 1: put in my arm and then they tape it down,
28:35
Speaker 1: and the tape that they use literally rips all of
28:38
Speaker 1: the hair off of my arm. And they even warn
28:41
Speaker 1: me about it ahead of time. Oh you're gonna get a
28:42
Speaker 1: you're gonna get hair, gonna hurt. Even it's like every
28:46
Speaker 1: time I'm over there, like why didn't I bring the
28:47
Speaker 1: nose stick bandages? The bandage is that stick but easily
28:50
Speaker 1: come off right there. Skin Tear Skill Silicon bandages, all
28:54
Speaker 1: shapes and sizes for you at heartfor Seniors dot org.
28:58
Speaker 1: And you can even get free sample.
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Speaker 2: Of those free samples, free samples, so free everything today
29:04
Speaker 2: again donations then please, we we just to make it
29:09
Speaker 2: very clear we are not paying our board. We have
29:12
Speaker 2: everybody that works for us as volunteer. Nobody is getting
29:14
Speaker 2: a salary. Every single dollar that's being brought in is
29:18
Speaker 2: being put back to the technology, to the watches, to
29:21
Speaker 2: the phones, to the skin tear bandages. Like we live
29:24
Speaker 2: and die on donations.
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Speaker 1: That is great to know. He's reminding me of Matthew
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Speaker 1: twenty five. You give a buck to Matthew twenty five,
29:31
Speaker 1: a buck goes to the charity. You give a buck
29:33
Speaker 1: to United Way, maybe fifty cents because they got huge overhead,
29:37
Speaker 1: giant salaries. Oh my god, four to one cave contributions,
29:40
Speaker 1: they got it all. So yeah, make this is a
29:42
Speaker 1: great bang for the buck. So again an appeal to
29:44
Speaker 1: businesses out there who can't afford to make a more
29:46
Speaker 1: sizable contribution. Help hard. Four seniors out at dot org
29:49
Speaker 1: out all right. In conclusion, Patty and Roger, you have
29:53
Speaker 1: the anti skin tear bandage technology. Yes, you have got
29:57
Speaker 1: the little do not insert urinary catheter without family consent
30:01
Speaker 1: placards which right there and just you know where you
30:03
Speaker 1: can go, folks are for seniors dot org and there's
30:06
Speaker 1: the shop link. That's where you can rent it all
30:09
Speaker 1: the technology. Can my listeners get the watch and the
30:12
Speaker 1: app from your website as well?
30:14
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, they just click on it. If they
30:17
Speaker 2: already have an Apple eleven, there's certain criteria. But if not,
30:22
Speaker 2: I will say we've partnered with Verizon and we can
30:26
Speaker 2: actually offer, believe it or not, a full package plan
30:30
Speaker 2: to where they get unlimited phone calls, unlimited texting, as
30:33
Speaker 2: well as our entire ecosystem, and it's way cheaper than
30:35
Speaker 2: anybody else has.
30:36
Speaker 3: The Verizon stepped IBM helped with the AI.
30:40
Speaker 2: Oh we are centel donations, but a cool, valuable, valuable.
30:47
Speaker 3: Very very affordable five G watches, very very affordable iPhones.
30:54
Speaker 2: Yes, seventeen Bran new.
30:56
Speaker 3: The IBM mephistructure has been critical for our AI develop
31:00
Speaker 3: and that AI piece is it's like the tip of
31:03
Speaker 3: the spirit.
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Speaker 2: It's huge.
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Speaker 3: At the end of all this data stream, it gives
31:08
Speaker 3: you an absolute analysis of what just happened in the
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Speaker 3: last twenty four hours or seven days, thirty d or
31:15
Speaker 3: fourteens or thirty days, whatever you want to decide you
31:18
Speaker 3: want to look at, and it gives you an intelligent
31:22
Speaker 3: summary of what is happening with your loved one multiple
31:26
Speaker 3: metrics or metric.
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Speaker 1: Multiple metrics, and again you know for the small price
31:31
Speaker 1: that this actually costs, and the amount of peace of
31:33
Speaker 1: mind and information, and the fact that it is literally
31:36
Speaker 1: life saving in the sense of these the notices you
31:40
Speaker 1: get like the I fallen and I can't get up
31:42
Speaker 1: notice you automatically get if your loved one falls. I mean,
31:47
Speaker 1: we want to prevent the fall, prevent the fall, and.
31:52
Speaker 2: We want to make their life worthy. It's I mean,
31:55
Speaker 2: they shouldn't be ignored at all.
31:58
Speaker 1: I agree, everything should not be get weepy eyed thinking
32:01
Speaker 1: of my father dealing with some of the same things
32:03
Speaker 1: that you're talking about every time you come on the program.
32:06
Speaker 1: Roger Patty, thank you for all the work that you're doing,
32:08
Speaker 1: and that it's volunteer, unpaid. It's just a real beautiful thing.
32:12
Speaker 1: You are doing God's work as I mentioned before, and
32:14
Speaker 1: helping seniors out in the community. Folks, it's herd number
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Speaker 1: four seniors dot org. Check it all out, call them up.
32:20
Speaker 1: They'll be happy to talk with you about the technology,
32:22
Speaker 1: the acquiring the watch, and everything you might need. Five
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Speaker 1: one three four four four twenty thirteen five one three
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Speaker 1: four four four, twenty thirteen. Patty Rogers, God bless you
32:32
Speaker 1: both for being there. No, thank you out there and
32:34
Speaker 1: the work that you're doing, and obviously I'm so pleased
32:37
Speaker 1: to be able to tell people about it. It's just great. Great.
32:40
Speaker 2: You have been so consistent with us, and I will
32:42
Speaker 2: tell you you're so respected by so many of these
32:45
Speaker 2: seniors and your love. You are completely loved and the
32:48
Speaker 2: family members. You're a resource, So thank you for the
32:51
Speaker 2: support you've given us.
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Speaker 1: I'm more than pleased to do it, and I'm not
32:54
Speaker 1: looking for any love or adulation or anything. I love
32:57
Speaker 1: being able to bring this to people's attention. It's one
32:59
Speaker 1: of the beauties of being able to come to work
33:00
Speaker 1: here every day. Thank you again, and thanks for spending
33:03
Speaker 1: time here this morning and educating all of us. It's
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Speaker 1: eight forty eight fifty five KRC Detalk Station. Come back,
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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes left and then we'll move on
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Speaker 1: with our weekend.
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Speaker 4: I'll be right back fifty five KRC Sex