H.E.A.R.T. 4 Seniors Foundation - Elderly Care Crisis

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It's seven p thirty seven thirty one fifty five KRCD
talk station. And been looking forward to this moment in time,
knowing full well that Patty is going to be back
in the studio. That'd be Patty Scott from one of
my favorite charities at Heart number four Seniors, heartfor Seniors
dot org. Check out the website uh TO five oh

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one C three nonprofit and it stands for Healthcare Evolution,
Alert Responsive Technology and what they do is fund research
and development for advanced alert response technologies to help offset
the substantial cost that follows from incontinence. For example, a
senior in an assisted living facility wallowing in their own

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urine feces results in massive problems, uncomfortable. Absolutely, healthcare problems abound. Yes,
there is a quick, easy and affordable solution for all that,
and Heart for Seniors delivers on that. But they do
so much more, as we've learned, Patty, it is always
a pleasure seeing you and your smiling face. Welcome back.
I understand you've got some good news for us today, Brian.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
We have so much good news, so much good news,
I don't even know where to start. First of all,
your listeners are amazing and I always.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Give my listeners a big props and I appreciate that well.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
But I love them because that's what we're here for,
is to help them. And let me tell you, it's
hard to navigate out there the healthcare system.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
A oh really, Yeah, healthcare is complicated.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
It's very complicated.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
And you know, us in this wonderful age group here,
we're kind of navigating both sides of things, from our
children to our parents.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
And you know, it's been really interesting since we've been
on in the last several months, and I kind of
have to share with you because it's been tough. And
this is exactly why we're here, and this is what
I want to share with you, the success of what's occurred.
And it kind of ties back into the Cunningham which
your favorite people by the way they were.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
They came over to my mom's house because I gave
them a contribution, And if you contribute to Heart for Seniors,
you'll get a little visit from the Cunningham sisters, who
are absolutely not just adorable, but they are so amazingly talented.
They did a couple of a cappella numbers from my mom. Oh,

(03:25):
my god. She was so moved by that. Oh and
they were so friendly and charming and just filled with
like honest love. You know, you can see when someone's
faking it. Those girls do not fake it. What they
do comes from their heart, and it does. It's a
pleasure to behold it does.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
So let me kind of share with you. One thing
that Heart for Seniors does is we're just trying to
fix things and become solutions. And especially for your listeners,
you know, we're getting messages every single hour upon hour
upon people.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Needing help and resources.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
So yes, it's about the alert response technology, yeah, but
it's also about helping people find solutions because it's just
so hard to navigate. So everything from I don't know
how to change a YouTube.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
I need help with some moond care.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
I don't really know how to get my mom over
to dialysis. I've been trying this agency and they don't
take my mom's insurance. I don't know what to do.
I have to work, we have all this post operative care.
It's just it's really so stressful. It's so stressful.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh yeah, and it persually extra stressful because you're talking
about probably someone who is your mom or dad, a
loved one, someone you care profoundly and deeply about. So
you're really desperately trying to find answers to these questions.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
And imagine even in the summer months, if you're the
care team and you're about to go off of vacation
and you don't have anybody to stay at home, and
or you're taking your kids off to college or whatever
the case may be, your parents are five hours away,
six hours away. So let me just share with you
something local that occurred that has transitioned into this that

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now has really something cool that's connected the Cunningham sister. So,
the Cunningham sister's mother, as you all know because they've
talked about it, has been at a veteran's hospital for
twenty plus years. She's a nurse and has all kinds
of psych history as well as just patient advocacy, respite care,
you name it from a nursing perspective, she has clinical

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background to do it. Many weeks ago, we got a
phone call from a very he's going to be coming
on the show next month, a very well known basketball
college coach locally.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
His father was in Georgia had transferred from a hospital
to a short term care facility. That was a very
very bad experience. They were basically just drugging him with
a drug to keep him. Just stated we had to
get him up here for them normal transport you call

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the companies things like that.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Fourteen fifteen thousand dollars. Oh horrible.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
The bigger issue is he was now on dialysis and
had anthem. Do you realize there's not many facilities that
do dialysis and or take anthem. Oh, that in itself
just completely freaked him out. Can you imagine wanting to
move somebody here, your loved one. You can't put him
in your house because of situations and issues. He's incontinent,

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so he knew he needed our system. And two, but
where do you put him? Because every facility he called
they either had dialysis but they didn't have anthem, or
they had anthem but they didn't have dialysis. Long story short,
Tara has now branched out and has partnered with Hartford Seniors.

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She actually has called Care by Tara. She is fully
offering all services. So we actually flew down this person.
This head coach hired her. We flew down. There's so
many complicated things when you go to transport a senior

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much less out of a nursing home. There's wellness checks
that have to take place. There's doctor's notes Delta. Thank god,
I'm not promoting them, but they were amazing to work with.
Did you know you have to fill prescriptions after you
leave a facility. You have to go to a clinic
to actually fill a prescription, before you get onto a flight,
before you cross state lines. There's so many checklists and

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things that have to take place. And it was like
this Navy seal mission that took place that we all
got done in a twelve hour period of time with Coach.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Oh my god, it is amazing.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
What was amazing, though, Brian was once we broke him
out of there, he was just like it's sunlight and
he was reading signs and he was so happy.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Because he wasn't in a drug induced koma anymore.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
And but what was so amazing.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
I just I tell you we're out of time. I
don't want to get the Harry eyeball from Joe. So
we will continue on this track and we'll have more
good news to deliver from from Patty Heart Number four
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Seniors dot org help them out up a right hand
corner on the website. Donate because you'd be doing a
world of good for seniors in assisted living facilities, but
also beyond that, and Patty Patty Scott from Hart for
Seniors in studio to add to the good news. Now,

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we previously talked about the nursing homes and assisted living
facilities Alzheimer's dimension facilities where there are so few people
handling so many patients. They have a scheduled check, they
go to a room on schedule, they see they check
the diaper and see, okay, it's dry, but they walk
out the door and that's when the diaper gets soiled.
But they don't show back up to that room for
another fifteen to twenty hours or whatever the rotation is. Meanwhile,

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that person is living in misery. It can cause complications health.
We've talked about that multitude of times. That's in senior
living facilities. What new development do you have for my
listeners who are caring for a loved one in that
condition in their homes, Patty.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
So we've been telling you we've been working on We
knew the technology would work at home, but we wanted
to make sure that we've been testing it and making
sure we didn't have any issues because our biggest issues
is we knew it would work inside the house, but
people leave to go to doctor's appointments, right and right right,
they're mobile, and so we needed to make sure that
not only did it work for the caregiver inside the home,
but if they left to go to the doctor's offices

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and things, things wouldn't click off and they would be
mobile with them on their phone as well.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
So I wanted to visually bring with you.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
It's hard for your listeners to see and understand, but
I wanted you to see how tiny a.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Pack of playing cards. It's the size of a pack
of playing cards. It's a computer that plugged into your device,
and that's it. That's it. It's this small.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
But if you saw the inside of it and saw
how complicated it looks, it's it's literally the coolest thing ever.
It'll plug straight into a router and we if you
don't have your own smart phone, you'll get a smartphone,
so it'll be provided. If you don't, it's all covered
and there's an app and we'll teach you.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
It's so simple.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
You buy the briefs, obviously, which are the smart briefs.
They talk to it and so on and so forth.
A risk wearable which does the pul sox, the heart rate,
the whole nine yards. What's really, really, really super cool
is when you leave the home with your loved one
to go to the doctor's office, that obviously little computer

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router technology system of ours stays in your home. You
don't take it. Everything transfers over onto that smartphone.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
You take that with you.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
It remains remains in contact, the data remains there. And
what the next phase of that will be, which is
we're really excited about, is all that data is living
and we'll be able to, you know, share with your
healthcare provider, with your loved one's healthcare provider, like we'll
have real data, live statistics that if they want to

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see urinary patterns, right toileting patterns. Your dad is toileting
at this time every single day, your mom is toileting
at this time every day. They have had a bow movement,
they haven't had a bow movement. When was the last
time they had one? What is their pulsex? When is
their pull sox dropping? What's their heart rate throughout the day?
I mean, does anybody know what their heart rate is

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throughout the day if they're not really monitoring, especially like
my dad who's eighty eight. An Apple Watch doesn't work
on him because his pull sox drops below ninety and
an Apple Watch won't cover below ninety. It's mostly just
for healthy people. And my dad's pul sox can drop
to forty four sadly if he drops off his oxygen

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at night and he takes it off or doesn't realize
he takes it off. So alert response technology is so
incredibly important.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, this also works with diabetic diabetes levels.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well that's interesting because we actually, we actually are working.
We've reached out to Abbot because a lot of people
in nursing homes have the Libra, but the Libra can't
talk to the system yet.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Okay, right, it talks to their system.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it just sits.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
In the room and it doesn't alert, and it's one
of the biggest frustrations nurses have. So we're we're trying
to get a hold of some people at Abbot to say, hey,
we already have the system. Can we just connect in
and let it talk right exactly? This just work with us,
Just let it connect in. I don't know if you
have any Abbot connections out there, but if they can,
if they can call, that'd be awesome.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
We just I mean, we're trying.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
This is amazing.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Again, we don't it doesn't have to be our proprietary software.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
Quite honestly.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
If there's other software that people have that is incredibly
important for somebody's health, call us and we can fit
it into the ecosystem. Again, it's important for us to
be very responsive alert response technology.

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Speaker 4 (16:05):
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Speaker 1 (16:07):
Service to America Part number four Seniors dot orgs the
website and Patti Scott from Hard for Seniors and Studio.
What an amazing, amazing, amazing thing. Now this technology that
you have in nursing home facilities memory care facilities now
available for you in your home. Small device about the
size of a pack of playing cards, which will monitor

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the smart underwear that your senior has to make sure
there's no incontinence issues. It keeps all this data you
just talked about, reams and realms of very important data
that your doctor, physician, other healthcare providers can use. And
what amazing peace of mind you mentioned. You can leave
the home and they will report the activity to your smartphone.
And I was thinking along the lines of, Wow, if

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you've got an outside caretaker coming into your home, you
might have the same worries and concerns that you would
have if you have a senior in an assistant living facility.
Are they really taking care of my loved one? Or
are they watching TV and playing on the smartphones? You'll
know you get an alert on your phone, you can
call them up and say, hey, Dad needs his underwear

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chain or he's having an issue with his oxygen level.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yeah. Well, let me tell you what else is really
cool about that.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Let's say we're in ten facilities right right now. But
let's say that somebody one of your listeners has their
parents in a facility.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
That we're not in. Oh yeah, okay, but they want this.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
This technology in the room that they're loved ones in.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, we can do that.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
We set up their room as if it's their home.
We can train their nurse. Right, that's in there straight.
We just put it right on their phone. It's an
app right and it's alert responds technology, so.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
It's very simple.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
We're getting extra specially doesn't have right, doesn't have to
be an entire facility, can just be a single individual patient.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Although if you are an assisted facility manager, you're the
personal response before it. Maybe an owner of assisted living facility,
you really really want this technology. It will improve the
lives of your patients. You'll have a much higher review rate.
You'll have a much more satisfied group of family members

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who are probably constantly worried about whether Dad or Mom's
being checked on properly. Maybe they're the ones that discover
that no, Dad's been laying in his own feces now
for the last six hours. Thank god I came in
to visit them, so I can raise three forms of
Holy Hell with the staff members. This makes it all easy.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Or they've taken their oxygen off and there spo two
drops to sixty, or maybe an insolent shot has been
given when it shouldn't have been given.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Potential liability issues there that you can avoid by adopting
this technology. Yeah, put my lawyer cap on on that one.
There's just so many reasons and I can't thank you
and everybody in all that hard for seniors for just
for doing what you're doing.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
We can't thank you enough for giving us the exposure.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Your listeners were here to help, like they're the best,
and they reach out and we want to help.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
We want to help them, We want to be a resource.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
And consider that story you told earlier about the local
basketball coach and his father and the struggles they had
getting them removed from that facility and up to where
they were going to be taken care of. You helped
deal with that problem as well, so a variety of services.
It's easy to reach them. Heart four Seniors Heart the
number four seniors dot org. Please check out their website,
check out what they do, and you know, I strongly

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encourage you to make a donation. That contribution would huge,
huge return on investment for a lot of people out
there in the world. Patty, God bless you and everything
you do. You always make my day when you show up.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
God bless you.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Brian and Hug the Cunningham Sisters for me.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
I will, and hey, don't forget for all those donations,
they get a nice.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Song out of it. Yeah, oh, we're all continuing to
do that.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
I was afraid to ask.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yes, No, that's on going right there, folks.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
A donation to Harker Seniors, you're gonna get a live
performance and someday, someday they are so talented you'll be
able to look back when they're like gold records selling,
record selling. They came to my house and sung to
my mom and dad in the living room. I know them,
I met them, I got pictures with them when they
were no. One. And congratulations the Cunningham sisters on signing.

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They got a record contract. So you will be hearing
more from them. Patty, God bless you can keep up
the great work, folks. Stick around, Jess Obert. More charity
work coming up. It's Peyton Lemonade stand season. Jess Obert
on the phone to talk about that. We'll hear from
Brian Miller about the gen Zs shifting over to the
trades in Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati. The Building Industry Association

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of Northern Kentucky's Brian Miller at a thirty I'll be
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