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Very happy Friday to you.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Put a smile on my face to have Patty Scott
and Roger King, Roger King's on the line, Patty Scott's
in studio Heart for Seniors. We've had them on before
and I'm from the bottom of my heart, I want
to thank all my listeners for supporting the organization. They're
doing wonderful things for seniors in you know care centers,
you know Alzheimer's facilities, senior living centers, where they're quite
(01:23):
often not closely watched and tended to. It's not that they,
you know, intentionally neglect someone, but it's the concept of
being able to know when someone is in need of
some attention along the lines of incontinents, changing diapers and things,
because otherwise you're stewing in your own juices, to put
it lightly. Patty, always a pleasure to have you in
the studio. Welcome back, Roger. It's good to have you
(01:46):
on as well, sir, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Thank you, and Brian again, thank you for having us,
because it's your listener base that has taken such an
interest in this topic and they're alway supporting. And what
I love is after the show, uh, they always call
in and we're helping them. We've had and which is
why we've launched the podcast, because we had so many
(02:09):
questions from so many of your listeners that needed help.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well that's great, it's you know.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
One of the reasons I get up in the morning
is because I get an opportunity to spread news and
information about organizations like yours. And what a simple concept
and and and genuinely, you know, easily affordable concept you
guys have brought about. It just sounds like why didn't
someone do this before? So why don't you remind my listeners,
(02:37):
maybe the someone who's not familiar with It's It's heart
the number four seniors dot org. That's the website where
you can learn about their mission and maybe donate. I
provided them with a donation myself. I was so inspired
by what they're doing. So one of you, Roger or Patty,
take it over and explain the concept what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Okay, well I'll launch this off. Well let's just talk
about the problem. And basically, when you look at incontinence
care and nursing homes and assists of living and other
aggregate living situations, the lack of responsiveness to incontinent episodes
(03:16):
is a major area of concern. I would say that
when you're looking at fifty to eighty percent of the
population in a nursing home being in continent.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
And right, we're seeing often and it's not incumbent at
all to see people lay for twelve hours without being
changed or more. And sometimes by then, of course they've
had several episodes of incontinence, and you know, you're you're
looking at some really negative outcomes that can occur from that.
(03:53):
Usually the first thing is you get you know, red
blistered skin, which is painful.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Tip you'll see that epidermal.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Erosion turn into a wound, and of course of the incontinent, uh,
and attention continues that woind's going to get infected. This
is a spiral downward and often you'll see these wounds
get very deep and with with a systemic infection, you know,
(04:23):
you can you can be looking at a hospitalization and
even death. So it's it really is an area of
care that is just fundamental and can lead to some
pretty serious negative outcomes. So what we need to.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Do is do better in a way that doesn't.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Punish people or use you know, punishments as the way
of going about it. And that's that's been what we're about.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, and you and you say punishment.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You're talking about the caregivers at whatever facility that are
responsible for going around in checking on the status of
each individual patient. But if you get a facility that's
got a lot of people in it, and there's always
there's always not enough people to take care of the
people in the facility. And Patty's nodding in great approval.
So the ratio of providers to patients, if we can
(05:14):
call them patients, is inadequate. But that's difficult thing to overcome.
And the other component is, you know, they're not always
the most highly trained, skilled people. You're not talking about
skilled nurses taking care of folks. You're talking about, you know,
people who have just been given a certain set of
training and like, okay, every two hours or every five
hours or every ten hours, I once you to do
this particular wing, and once you check them, and then
(05:36):
you go back to your posts. So I get that,
But punishing them for something that they have, well, an
inability to get their heads and hands around, just seems
like it just a worthless effort. So we'll pause and
we'll bring back Roger and Patty to talk about a
much much better way to go about doing this, and
It's really terrific, and I know my listeners are going
(05:57):
to go directly to the facilities where their loved ones
are and demand that this be brought about. That's what
we're hoping that happens. So let's pause for a moment.
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Seven forty fifty five KRC the talk station. Very Happy
Friday to you. Air Force Colonel Josh McConkey with his
book Be the Weight behind the Spear. After the top
of the our news and the return of vets and
Bruis for the Bourbon Raffle and concert Matt Demarrison Shay
Hensley at eight thirty. In the meantime, plan please to
have Patty Scott and Roger King on the show to
talk about Heart for Seniors. It's Heart the Number four
(08:41):
Seniors dot Org. They address elder abuse and neglect in
nursing homes and elder care facilities. And we were talking
about incontinent It's a huge problem. It's almost impossible for
everyone to stay up on it, which is why, as
Roger pointed out in the last segment and sorry to
hear it, with eighty percent of the patient's experiencing a
and that's a figure I was not aware of. That's
(09:02):
a lot. So you have a huge volume of people
who need their diapers change regularly, and he Roger already
outlined all the medical implications behind that not happening. So
now we address the problem with a unbelievably simple, ingenious solution.
You want to take care of that, Roger, Patty is
at your turn.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Roger, I can talk about it here as well. So
Hard for Seniors actually funds with your donations. Additional technology.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It's simple.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It's alert response technology and it literally is technology that
is a smart brief specifically with incontinence. And Roger can
go into more detail of that. That simply alerts the
healthcare worker that there's been moisture.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Right, so second floor room B got to go there
because you've got a situation.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Oh, go ahead, No, it's better than that. It is
it is missus Smith in room one hundred that the
steff knows exactly who it is. It's when you think
about this, you first have to look at the protocol
that most of these nursing homes are using. Now they say, well,
(10:17):
to the staff, you're supposed to check every resident every
two hours to see if they've had an incontinence episode.
Of course there's no accountability for that. Now, when you
do the math, if you have just fifty people in
a building with twelve nursing assistants, you're supposed to check
those people six hundred times a day. If you're doing
(10:38):
it every two hours, it doesn't work. The numbers don't work.
And when I've asked nursing assistants.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Well, how do you check? How do you check?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Well? You hear things like I touch, I smell, I feel,
I peak. It's undignified for both parties, really, and when
you set up when you set up a protocol, hall,
that's doomed to failure, and everybody knows that eventually you
get surrender, and surrender equals neglect, So the numbers don't work.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
And with the technology, what we.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Do is you forget all that only go when you're
alerted that there's an episode. So now instead of trying
to run around and check everybody, we're directing traffic and
we're saying to the nurse aid, go to room one hundred,
check on missus Smith, and it talks to a smartphone
the nurse AD's carrying, and she goes to the room,
(11:34):
and then the technology monitors how fast they got there,
you know, and and tracks the time it took.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
To take care.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
What we're seeing with the bioling technology is about a
one hour response time on average, which is excellent. We're
getting there quick, so the and then the staff. Ultimately,
as the software tracks what's going on and creates daily reports,
we do an incentive program which gives rewards points to
(12:05):
the nursing assistance for moving faster and working harder, so
we get better efficiency overall, and we get better outcomes
and better responsiveness to the needs of these residents.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That's just the entire that's the entire process.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It's just so logical and reasonable. And I always wonder
because you know, this type of technology has been available
or could have easily been available, for quite some time.
But it's just amazingly impactful. And I like the incentive
program built on top of it, because again, getting people
to get up and do something that they probably is
the least desirous part of their job. Okay, you're going
(12:45):
to get to interact with seniors and maybe help them
if you get joy and enlightenment from that. Help them
with their meals and move them around, get them outside.
That kind of thing all up can be uplifting components
of the job. But when it comes to dealing with this,
I gotta imagine it's probably bottom on the list of
things that folks want to do. So having an incentive
to get up there and clean them up real quickly
(13:06):
is just an extra benefit of this, of this this
software and this technology. Now I'm on your website again,
heartfour Seniors dot org. Does it monitor other things? Because
I see you talk about irregular heartbeating, dehydration and respiratory
conditions and things of that nature.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Does it also do that well?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
The brief system itself will monitor for fevers. It will
also monitor for turning a position. But within that software,
we will alert if someone hasn't urinated in a certain
period of time, so we're looking at dehydration, we're looking
at some other kinds of factors that you can information
(13:49):
you can derive from the output of the human body.
So there's that, but we have additional hardware that feeds
them to. Ultimately, the goal is to have an entire
ecosystem of technology over a building. So we're alerting on
lots of different needs. So there's a riskwearable device that
(14:09):
looks at pulse sc symmetry, it looks at heart rate,
it will alert on tacocardia, bradycardia, and we're looking at
fever with that as well. So if something goes above
or blow a certain threshold and it's patient specific, it
sends out an alert to the smart devices and tells
(14:31):
us that, hey, missus Jones in room two hundred has
a fever, or we've got to drop in pulsec symmetry,
you know, seventy five percent instead of you above ninety,
whatever the case may be. So the technology is designed
to tell the staff there's a need that exists. Potentially
(14:52):
with a resident, we need you to go check on them.
We need you to go deal with this, as opposed
to just you know, having some sort of protocol or
neglect happen, as the case may be. I can imagine
how long it might be if someone has a fever
in a nursing him before it's detected.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It can go for a while.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
And the earlier you get there, the faster you respond
to these needs, the better the outcome.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Well, and I'm for your idea.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And I'm staring at your results at on heartfurseniors dot org,
and I'm just kind of wondering as I see the
insane increase in improvement eighty six percent improvement in response time,
ninety three percent reduction in hospitalizations, ninety five percent reduction
amiss early warning signs, ninety percent increase in overall patience satisfaction.
(15:46):
And it's kind of one of the things I was thinking,
are these facilities rated by state organizations or entities? Do
they get scores themselves like oh that one's got a
bad rep, that one's got a good rep. This could
in and of itself create a much more positive environment
and a much higher satisfaction rate among the patients because
they're being taken care of. The family members know that
(16:06):
this technology is there and they're not going to get neglected.
They're going to see the scores and the numbers. I mean,
this is this is good for the facility, it's good
for the families who are worried about their loved one,
and more fundamentally, it's good for the loved one who's
laying there.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I would agree it's it's a win win win, and
ultimately it's uplifting to the caregivers.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
You're talking about employees who make let's just say twenty
dollars an hour for a nursing assistant. That's not a
living wage. And we come in with the technology and
we say, you know what, if you move fast, if
you work harder, if you learn some new skills around technology,
we're going to give you additional rewards. And Brian, what's
really interesting is a nursing assistant. You know, every two
(16:49):
weeks we issue the gift cards to these people and
let's just say it's one hundred and fifty dollars. That's
gasoline in their car, that's groceries to the family. That's
extra money they haven't they look forward to that. It's
amazing how much difference it makes to them. So we're
looking to not just impact that residence, but the workers,
(17:14):
the healthcare workers themselves, you know, and make sure that
they're uplifted along with the quality of care.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Amen to that.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
You are a five oh one C three nonprofit and
of course you provide these resources to folks and it's
all funded through individual contributions and donations. And I strongly
encourage my listeners. You're saving lives with this, and you're
improving people's quality of life, especially in those years where
a lot of people suffer from a lack of quality
of life. Heart Number four Seniors dot Org upright hand corner.
(17:47):
Little button says donates easy to do. I've been there
and done that, and I sure got a great amount
of satisfaction for knowing that that money was being spent.
I mean, you know, this is a worthwhile donation.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And Roger, it has been a real pleasure having you
back on and I feel so much better about the
seniors and those facilities thanks to the work that you're doing.
And again I'll encourage my listeners to help you out
with the donation. On your website learn more about the
entire program. Keep up the great.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Work, Brian. Thank you for your support. I could not
do it without you, and we encourage anybody who wants
to go deeper about incontinence head out to the podcast.
We are on all platforms, including the iHeart platform, and
it's a deep dive. It's a long one, but Roger
and doctor SHAWNA. Rutherford go deep into incontinence care, wounds,
(18:37):
all kinds of things. And we're going to keep doing
the podcast because your listeners have asked, oh that's great,
They've wanted specific topics, so we're just going to keep
going with it.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
So it's Heart for Seniors podcasts. Search for it, you'll
find it and I'm sure you'll enjoy finding out all
the information and details. Thanks again for the work that
you're doing. Truly uplifting work it is, and love gett
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Here it is your Channel nine were first warning weather forecasts.
You got wind Advisor beginning at ten o'clock this morning
through seven pm. Beyond that, partly cloudy. Sky's high of
fifty seven down to thirty one overnight with clouds clearing
out tomorrow. We have clouds in the morning, sun sunshine
in the afternoon, maybe some flurries.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I have thirty eight overnight down at eighteen.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Sorry, and on Sunday, mostly Sunday with a high of
thirty eight thirty three. Right now, let's get an update
on traffic in Chucking Room.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
From the UCL Traffic Center. Around forty percent of cancers
are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference.
Called five on three five Big five U see scene scene.
Highway traffic continues to look good this morning. No major
time to legs to deal with or problems. Southbound seventy
five the heaviest and that's just slowing down a bit
at the lateral shock. Kingbram, I'm fifty five KRC the
(00:51):
talk station seven thirty here, fifty five AIRCD talk station.
Very happy Friday to you.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Put a smile on my face to have Patty Scott
and Roger King, Roger King's on the line, Patty Scott's
in studio Heart for Seniors. We've had them on before
and I'm from the bottom of my heart, I want
to thank all my listeners for supporting the organization. They're
doing wonderful things for seniors in you know care centers,
you know Alzheimer's facilities, senior living centers, where they're quite
(01:23):
often not closely watched and tended to. It's not that they,
you know, intentionally neglect someone, but it's the concept of
being able to know when someone is in need of
some attention along the lines of incontinents, changing diapers and things,
because otherwise you're stewing in your own juices, to put
it lightly. Patty, always a pleasure to have you in
the studio. Welcome back, Roger. It's good to have you
(01:46):
on as well, sir, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Thank you, and Brian again, thank you for having us,
because it's your listener base that has taken such an
interest in this topic and they're alway supporting. And what
I love is after the show, uh, they always call
in and we're helping them. We've had and which is
why we've launched the podcast, because we had so many
(02:09):
questions from so many of your listeners that needed help.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well that's great, it's you know.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
One of the reasons I get up in the morning
is because I get an opportunity to spread news and
information about organizations like yours. And what a simple concept
and and and genuinely, you know, easily affordable concept you
guys have brought about. It just sounds like why didn't
someone do this before? So why don't you remind my listeners,
(02:37):
maybe the someone who's not familiar with It's It's heart
the number four seniors dot org. That's the website where
you can learn about their mission and maybe donate. I
provided them with a donation myself. I was so inspired
by what they're doing. So one of you, Roger or Patty,
take it over and explain the concept what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Okay, well I'll launch this off. Well let's just talk
about the problem. And basically, when you look at incontinence
care and nursing homes and assists of living and other
aggregate living situations, the lack of responsiveness to incontinent episodes
(03:16):
is a major area of concern. I would say that
when you're looking at fifty to eighty percent of the
population in a nursing home being in continent.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
And right, we're seeing often and it's not incumbent at
all to see people lay for twelve hours without being
changed or more. And sometimes by then, of course they've
had several episodes of incontinence, and you know, you're you're
looking at some really negative outcomes that can occur from that.
(03:53):
Usually the first thing is you get you know, red
blistered skin, which is painful.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Tip you'll see that epidermal.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Erosion turn into a wound, and of course of the incontinent, uh,
and attention continues that woind's going to get infected. This
is a spiral downward and often you'll see these wounds
get very deep and with with a systemic infection, you know,
(04:23):
you can you can be looking at a hospitalization and
even death. So it's it really is an area of
care that is just fundamental and can lead to some
pretty serious negative outcomes. So what we need to.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Do is do better in a way that doesn't.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Punish people or use you know, punishments as the way
of going about it. And that's that's been what we're about.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, and you and you say punishment.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You're talking about the caregivers at whatever facility that are
responsible for going around in checking on the status of
each individual patient. But if you get a facility that's
got a lot of people in it, and there's always
there's always not enough people to take care of the
people in the facility. And Patty's nodding in great approval.
So the ratio of providers to patients, if we can
(05:14):
call them patients, is inadequate. But that's difficult thing to overcome.
And the other component is, you know, they're not always
the most highly trained, skilled people. You're not talking about
skilled nurses taking care of folks. You're talking about, you know,
people who have just been given a certain set of
training and like, okay, every two hours or every five
hours or every ten hours, I once you to do
this particular wing, and once you check them, and then
(05:36):
you go back to your posts. So I get that,
But punishing them for something that they have, well, an
inability to get their heads and hands around, just seems
like it just a worthless effort. So we'll pause and
we'll bring back Roger and Patty to talk about a
much much better way to go about doing this, and
It's really terrific, and I know my listeners are going
(05:57):
to go directly to the facilities where their loved ones
are and demand that this be brought about. That's what
we're hoping that happens. So let's pause for a moment.
And I feel so terrible. You know, a big fan
of Gene Hackman. I'm not going to get down to
the road about you know, movies and movie stars and
the like, but great actor. And they found him, his wife,
and their dog dead in their house. And the first
thing they went through my mind because there was no
signs of foul plan. I know it has been fully investigated.
(06:19):
Carbon monoxide has been talked about as a possible reason
for their death. And that's why I always like to
use the Chimney Care Fireplace in stove commercials to just
do the right thing and get yourself a carbon monoxide
detector and of course to take care of your safety.
That's what Chimneycare Fireplace and stove is all about. It's comfort,
but yes, it's also safety. Have your chimney inspected. For
(06:40):
you wood burners out there, they have a wood burning
sweep and evaluation called the Winter Special for just one
hundred and sixty nine dollars and ninety nine cents plus tacks.
They'll inspect your chimney top the botto. If it needs
to be swept, they'll sweep it. Maybe their lining's cracked.
That's nice information to know. They know how to do relining.
Anything that's wrong, including water damage, they'll find out about it.
That's the point of an inspection, and of course is
(07:01):
sweep so woodburning sweep in evaluation LOLO price of one
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Seven forty fifty five KRC the talk station. Very Happy
Friday to you. Air Force Colonel Josh McConkey with his
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Hensley at eight thirty. In the meantime, plan please to
have Patty Scott and Roger King on the show to
talk about Heart for Seniors. It's Heart the Number four
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Seniors dot Org. They address elder abuse and neglect in
nursing homes and elder care facilities. And we were talking
about incontinent It's a huge problem. It's almost impossible for
everyone to stay up on it, which is why, as
Roger pointed out in the last segment and sorry to
hear it, with eighty percent of the patient's experiencing a
and that's a figure I was not aware of. That's
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a lot. So you have a huge volume of people
who need their diapers change regularly, and he Roger already
outlined all the medical implications behind that not happening. So
now we address the problem with a unbelievably simple, ingenious solution.
You want to take care of that, Roger, Patty is
at your turn.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Roger, I can talk about it here as well. So
Hard for Seniors actually funds with your donations. Additional technology.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It's simple.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It's alert response technology and it literally is technology that
is a smart brief specifically with incontinence. And Roger can
go into more detail of that. That simply alerts the
healthcare worker that there's been moisture.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Right, so second floor room B got to go there
because you've got a situation.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Oh, go ahead, No, it's better than that. It is
it is missus Smith in room one hundred that the
steff knows exactly who it is. It's when you think
about this, you first have to look at the protocol
that most of these nursing homes are using. Now they say, well,
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to the staff, you're supposed to check every resident every
two hours to see if they've had an incontinence episode.
Of course there's no accountability for that. Now, when you
do the math, if you have just fifty people in
a building with twelve nursing assistants, you're supposed to check
those people six hundred times a day. If you're doing
(10:38):
it every two hours, it doesn't work. The numbers don't work.
And when I've asked nursing assistants.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Well, how do you check? How do you check?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Well? You hear things like I touch, I smell, I feel,
I peak. It's undignified for both parties, really, and when
you set up when you set up a protocol, hall,
that's doomed to failure, and everybody knows that eventually you
get surrender, and surrender equals neglect, So the numbers don't work.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
And with the technology, what we.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Do is you forget all that only go when you're
alerted that there's an episode. So now instead of trying
to run around and check everybody, we're directing traffic and
we're saying to the nurse aid, go to room one hundred,
check on missus Smith, and it talks to a smartphone
the nurse AD's carrying, and she goes to the room,
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and then the technology monitors how fast they got there,
you know, and and tracks the time it took.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
To take care.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
What we're seeing with the bioling technology is about a
one hour response time on average, which is excellent. We're
getting there quick, so the and then the staff. Ultimately,
as the software tracks what's going on and creates daily reports,
we do an incentive program which gives rewards points to
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the nursing assistance for moving faster and working harder, so
we get better efficiency overall, and we get better outcomes
and better responsiveness to the needs of these residents.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That's just the entire that's the entire process.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It's just so logical and reasonable. And I always wonder
because you know, this type of technology has been available
or could have easily been available, for quite some time.
But it's just amazingly impactful. And I like the incentive
program built on top of it, because again, getting people
to get up and do something that they probably is
the least desirous part of their job. Okay, you're going
(12:45):
to get to interact with seniors and maybe help them
if you get joy and enlightenment from that. Help them
with their meals and move them around, get them outside.
That kind of thing all up can be uplifting components
of the job. But when it comes to dealing with this,
I gotta imagine it's probably bottom on the list of
things that folks want to do. So having an incentive
to get up there and clean them up real quickly
(13:06):
is just an extra benefit of this, of this this
software and this technology. Now I'm on your website again,
heartfour Seniors dot org. Does it monitor other things? Because
I see you talk about irregular heartbeating, dehydration and respiratory
conditions and things of that nature.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Does it also do that well?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
The brief system itself will monitor for fevers. It will
also monitor for turning a position. But within that software,
we will alert if someone hasn't urinated in a certain
period of time, so we're looking at dehydration, we're looking
at some other kinds of factors that you can information
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you can derive from the output of the human body.
So there's that, but we have additional hardware that feeds
them to. Ultimately, the goal is to have an entire
ecosystem of technology over a building. So we're alerting on
lots of different needs. So there's a riskwearable device that
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looks at pulse sc symmetry, it looks at heart rate,
it will alert on tacocardia, bradycardia, and we're looking at
fever with that as well. So if something goes above
or blow a certain threshold and it's patient specific, it
sends out an alert to the smart devices and tells
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us that, hey, missus Jones in room two hundred has
a fever, or we've got to drop in pulsec symmetry,
you know, seventy five percent instead of you above ninety,
whatever the case may be. So the technology is designed
to tell the staff there's a need that exists. Potentially
(14:52):
with a resident, we need you to go check on them.
We need you to go deal with this, as opposed
to just you know, having some sort of protocol or
neglect happen, as the case may be. I can imagine
how long it might be if someone has a fever
in a nursing him before it's detected.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It can go for a while.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
And the earlier you get there, the faster you respond
to these needs, the better the outcome.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Well, and I'm for your idea.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And I'm staring at your results at on heartfurseniors dot org,
and I'm just kind of wondering as I see the
insane increase in improvement eighty six percent improvement in response time,
ninety three percent reduction in hospitalizations, ninety five percent reduction
amiss early warning signs, ninety percent increase in overall patience satisfaction.
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And it's kind of one of the things I was thinking,
are these facilities rated by state organizations or entities? Do
they get scores themselves like oh that one's got a
bad rep, that one's got a good rep. This could
in and of itself create a much more positive environment
and a much higher satisfaction rate among the patients because
they're being taken care of. The family members know that
(16:06):
this technology is there and they're not going to get neglected.
They're going to see the scores and the numbers. I mean,
this is this is good for the facility, it's good
for the families who are worried about their loved one,
and more fundamentally, it's good for the loved one who's
laying there.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I would agree it's it's a win win win, and
ultimately it's uplifting to the caregivers.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
You're talking about employees who make let's just say twenty
dollars an hour for a nursing assistant. That's not a
living wage. And we come in with the technology and
we say, you know what, if you move fast, if
you work harder, if you learn some new skills around technology,
we're going to give you additional rewards. And Brian, what's
really interesting is a nursing assistant. You know, every two
(16:49):
weeks we issue the gift cards to these people and
let's just say it's one hundred and fifty dollars. That's
gasoline in their car, that's groceries to the family. That's
extra money they haven't they look forward to that. It's
amazing how much difference it makes to them. So we're
looking to not just impact that residence, but the workers,
(17:14):
the healthcare workers themselves, you know, and make sure that
they're uplifted along with the quality of care.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Amen to that.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
You are a five oh one C three nonprofit and
of course you provide these resources to folks and it's
all funded through individual contributions and donations. And I strongly
encourage my listeners. You're saving lives with this, and you're
improving people's quality of life, especially in those years where
a lot of people suffer from a lack of quality
of life. Heart Number four Seniors dot Org upright hand corner.
(17:47):
Little button says donates easy to do. I've been there
and done that, and I sure got a great amount
of satisfaction for knowing that that money was being spent.
I mean, you know, this is a worthwhile donation.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And Roger, it has been a real pleasure having you
back on and I feel so much better about the
seniors and those facilities thanks to the work that you're doing.
And again I'll encourage my listeners to help you out
with the donation. On your website learn more about the
entire program. Keep up the great.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Work, Brian. Thank you for your support. I could not
do it without you, and we encourage anybody who wants
to go deeper about incontinence head out to the podcast.
We are on all platforms, including the iHeart platform, and
it's a deep dive. It's a long one, but Roger
and doctor SHAWNA. Rutherford go deep into incontinence care, wounds,
(18:37):
all kinds of things. And we're going to keep doing
the podcast because your listeners have asked, oh that's great,
They've wanted specific topics, so we're just going to keep
going with it.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
So it's Heart for Seniors podcasts. Search for it, you'll
find it and I'm sure you'll enjoy finding out all
the information and details. Thanks again for the work that
you're doing. Truly uplifting work it is, and love gett
an uplifting message on a Friday, particularly take care of both.
You have a wonderful weekend and I'm sure we'll be
hearing from you again down the road at least I hope. So, folks,
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