Issue 2 Volume 20 An Elder Care Publication February 2019 1223 Swan Drive Bartlesville, OK 74006 918-336-8500 www.abouteldercare.org 5 Reason to Love DayBreak Page 3 Eat 5, Move 10, Sleep 8 Page 4 Leave a Legacy Page 5 Prime Times 8 Learn to Love Your Heart Page 2 Richard enjoying a Valentin'e Art project lead by the DayBreak Acitivities Leaders Thank You For Your Support Private contributions play an important role in the success of Elder Care’s many programs and services. The generous support of our donors enables us to serve senior adults and their caregivers throughout the community. For information about making a gift please contact: Deirdre McArdle, Director of Development, at 918-336-8500. January 2019 Donors: James and Caryl Bell Barbara Bunge Mary K. Chapman Foundation Cresap Family Foundation Donald Doty Ford and Vanessa Drummond Elizabeth Gallery Lloyd and Shelly Gautney Mark and Debbie Haskell Gretchen Hoyt Ann and Larry Johnson Kerr Foundation John and Xandra Manley Pat Murphy Donald Norwood Mr. and Mrs. Sowers Memorials: In memory of Tom Burris Ron and Christy Hart In memory of Norma "Mickie" Preston Pam and Joe Williams In memory of Charles K. Smith Paul and Kelly Curtis In memory of Sandy Tharp Lin and Alberta Bashford Golden Opportunities Sponsors: Golden Sponsor: Medicalodges Dewey Silver Sponsor: Bartlesville Health & Rehab Members Only Sponsor: Adams PARC Social Sponsor: Comforting Hands Hospice Elder Care Calendar February 18- GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm 19- Caregiver Support, 10 am PWR! Moves*, 11:15 am GO: Stretch & Tone*, 1 pm GO: Bunco*, 3 pm 20- GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm GO: Mercantile Trip*, 10:15 am 21-Caregiver Support, 10 am PWR! Moves*, 11:15 am GO: Stretch & Tone*, 1 pm Parkinson Support Group, 5 pm 22 -GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm 25 -GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm 26- PWR! Moves*, 11:15 am GO: Stretch & Tone*, 1 pm GO: Bunco*, 3 pm 27-GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm 28-Caregiver Support, 10 am PWR! Moves*, 11:15 am GO: Stretch & Tone*, 1 pm GO: Bunco*, 3 pm Golden Hour, 5:30 pm March 1- GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm 4-Elder Care Open House, 10 am GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm 5-Caregiver Support, 10 am PWR! Moves*, 11:15 am GO: Stretch & Tone*, 1 pm GO: Bunco*, 3 pm 6-GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm 7-GO: Stretch & Tone*, 1 pm PWR! Moves*, 11:15 am 8- GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm GO: Bingo*, 2 pm 11- GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm 12- Caregiver Support, 10 am PWR! Moves*, 11:15 am GO: Stretch & Tone*, 1 pm GO: Bunco*, 3 pm 13- GO: Tulsa History Tour*, 10:15am GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm 14- PWR! Moves*, 11:15 am GO: Stretch & Tone*, 1 pm 15- GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm 18- GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm *Enrollment Fees Apply
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Issue 2Volume 20
An Elder Care Publication February 2019
1223 Swan DriveBartlesville, OK 74006918-336-8500 www.abouteldercare.org
5 Reason to Love DayBreakPage 3
Eat 5, Move 10, Sleep 8Page 4
Leave a LegacyPage 5
Prime Times8
Learn to Love Your HeartPage 2
Richard enjoying a Valentin'e Art project lead by the DayBreak Acitivities Leaders
Thank You For Your SupportPrivate contributions play an important role in the success of Elder Care’s many programs and services. The
generous support of our donors enables us to serve senior adults and their caregivers throughout the community.
For information about making a gift please contact: Deirdre McArdle, Director of Development, at 918-336-8500.
January 2019 Donors:James and Caryl BellBarbara BungeMary K. Chapman Foundation Cresap Family FoundationDonald DotyFord and Vanessa DrummondElizabeth GalleryLloyd and Shelly GautneyMark and Debbie HaskellGretchen HoytAnn and Larry JohnsonKerr FoundationJohn and Xandra ManleyPat Murphy
Donald NorwoodMr. and Mrs. Sowers
Memorials:In memory of Tom Burris Ron and Christy Hart
In memory of Norma "Mickie" Preston Pam and Joe Williams
In memory of Charles K. Smith Paul and Kelly Curtis
In memory of Sandy Tharp Lin and Alberta Bashford
Golden Opportunities Sponsors:
Golden Sponsor: Medicalodges Dewey
Silver Sponsor: Bartlesville Health & Rehab
Members Only Sponsor: Adams PARC
Social Sponsor: Comforting Hands Hospice
Elder Care CalendarFebruary 18- GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm 19- Caregiver Support, 10 am PWR! Moves*, 11:15 am GO: Stretch & Tone*, 1 pm GO: Bunco*, 3 pm 20- GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm GO: Mercantile Trip*, 10:15 am 21-Caregiver Support, 10 am PWR! Moves*, 11:15 am GO: Stretch & Tone*, 1 pm Parkinson Support Group, 5 pm 22 -GO: Enhance Fitness*, 1 pm
With so many hearts around us at Valentine’s Day, it’s important that you pay your own heart a little attention. After all, your heart is incredible. The average heart rate of an adult is 72 beats per minute. If you live to be 80 years old, your heart would have beaten almost 3 billion times. The heart is an amazing organ that keeps beating involuntarily and powers blood circulation for the entire body. Here are some important considerations for your heart health.
While genetics play a part in heart disease, lifestyle choices have a significant impact. The fact that you may have heart disease in your family tree should be the driver of change in your lifestyle. We know that smoking, unhealthy eating habits, and living a sedentary lifestyle negatively impact heart health. Here’s how physical thera-py can help.
Exercise helps you burn calories, lowers your resting blood pressure and heart rate, reduces bad cholesterol and boosts good cholesterol. Physical therapists are uniquely qualified to assess your mobility and physical activity levels and create an appropriate plan for you to improve. A quality assessment of muscle strength, endurance, and vital signs, taking into account past medical conditions and medications, is imperative in creating a successful pro-gram. A therapist will provide patient education and teach proper technique and performance of exercise. If you are not used to exercising, a therapist is excellent at setting suitable intensity and viable goals for activities.
Learn to Love Your HeartBy Josh Lindblom DPT, Director of Physical Therapy
It’s important to recognize that being active doesn’t neces-sarily mean that you are running on a treadmill or going to a work out class, yet both of those can be good options. Your plan could be as simple as taking a daily walk, park-ing farther away from the store to add more steps to your day, or taking stairs instead of an elevator. Maybe it’s get-ting back into playing a sport or participating in a physi-cally active hobby. A physical therapist can help you work through the details.
The decisions you make today help shape the story you can tell tomorrow. Find something you love to do and get moving! You owe it to your incredible heart to tell a good story and we would love to help.
The physical therapy department at Elder Care specializes in administering individualized care in a compassionate environment. We dedicate ourselves to provide high-qual-ity skilled services to manage multiple medical conditions and the impairments that accompany these conditions. To schedule an evaluation, contact us directly at (918) 766-0391.
Timmy loves to raise his heart rate with a bit of boxing.
Elder Care Jan. 2019 Volunteers:Juqueeta BartleyPatty BjugstdLinda BoudreauxDanielle CastroJackie Caviness
W.R. Bohon Senior Health ClinicJosh Lindblom, PT, DPT
Physical Therapy DirectorDeirdre McArdle
Development DirectorLeah Alexander
Adult Day Health Director Jennifer Ennis
Administrative DirectorKearl Coke
Brigher Living Services Director
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By Leah Alexander, DayBreak Director5 Reason You'll Love DayBreak
DayBreak at Elder Care provides social interaction that is both enjoyable and good for you. You may be thinking…Why should my loved one or I attend DayBreak? What can they offer? Here are 5 good reasons to attend:
1. SOCIAL CENTER; DayBreak has activities to enhance your quality of life, offered in a safe and secure environment. We try to reach all interests and hobbies…table games, active games, gardening, cooking classes, discus-sion groups, arts and crafts, parties, dances, music, day trips, and more.
2. EXERCISE for the mind and body; Day-Break offers stretching classes and range of motion classes for participants. Day-Break also offers a unique exercise program “Enhance Fitness.” A national program that is based on scientific research and input from older adults. It focuses on three compo-nents of fitness, strength training, flexibility, and cardiovascular conditioning. It provides warm up aerobic activity and strength train-ing with weights, stretching and a cool down period.
3. MUSIC; DayBreak offers several different music opportunities. We have a performing choir that sings for the other participants as well as nursing facilities in the community. We enjoy weekly tone bell ringing and sing a-longs with our wonderful volunteers.
4. ART; DayBreak offers painting, drawing, ceramic, sewing, bead work, and many others. We are proud to have our award winning art shown at the county fairs, the public library, Price Tower.
5. HEALTH MONITORING; Although DayBreak is a social center, our licensed nurse works with your doctor to help monitor your blood pressure, weight, pulse, respirations, and administration of medication. Our staff can help with bathing, dressing, or other personal needs you may have. We offer two healthy snacks and a hot lunch daily. For more further information or if you would like to schedule a tour, please feel free to call Elder Care’s Daybreak at 918-336-8500.
Think Positive and Reduce StressBy Christina Bishop, Operations Director
The staff at Mayo clinic writes that positive thinking helps with stress management and that it can improve your health! I have often found that there are two cat-egories that most of us fit into; those who are filled with optimism and those that are filled with pessimism. These are considered personality traits. You can probably look at your family and friends and fairly quickly identify who falls in which category. The good news, we can change the way we think and choose to start thinking positive.
Positive thinking doesn’t mean that you bury your head in the sand and ignore the unpleasant things in life. It just means that you approach the unpleasant parts of life in a different manner. The first step often starts with how we talk to ourselves. Is it positive or negative? If your self-talk is negative it’s time to make a change. Self-talk is the endless stream of unspoken thoughts that run through your mind. You can learn to turn negative think-ing into positive thinking.
The many positive benefits that come from thinking pos-itively are; increased life span, lower rates of depression, better psychological and physical well-being, reduced
Top: Charles enjoys making various crafts at DayBreak. Bottom: Moe and Lindsey are always
happy to win at Bingo.
risk of cardiovascular disease and better coping skills during hardships and times of stress just to name a few. The following are some simple steps you can take to start making a difference in the way you think and reduc-ing your stress:
1. Identify areas you typically think negatively about whether it is work, your relationship or health issues. You can pick one area and start focusing on a more posi-tive approach.
2. Check your thinking periodically during the day, if you find that your thoughts are mostly negative, stop and put a positive spin on them.
3. Give yourself permission to smile or life, especially dur ing difficult times.
4. Surround yourself with positive. Hanging out with negative people may increase your stress level and make you doubt your own abilities to manage stress.
5. Be gentle and encouraging with yourself. If a nega-tive thought enters your mind, evaluate it rationally and respond with affirmations of what is good about you.
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By Darion Anthony, LPN/CM Care Manager
When maintaining the health of your heart, it is always important to take into account all of the different factors that come into play that work together synergistically to keep the most powerful pump strong and healthy. If these factors are neglected, many chronic condations may result in high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, diabetes, and heart failure. There are some factors that are out of our control such as age, gender, and genetics. However, there are many factors that when controlled appropriately can greatly increase one’s lifespan and gen-eral physical health. The two biggest contributing factors that are important to maintain are diet and exercise.
In 2012 the Mayo Clinic released the book “Mayo Clinic Healthy Heart for Life” giving simple steps on exactly where to focus and how to start moving towards a heart healthy life. Here's a summary of the Mayo Clinic Healthy Heart Plan's quick start “Eat 5, Move 10, Sleep 8:
Eat 5. Eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day to boost your heart health. Start by eating breakfast and including at least one serving of fruit or vegetable. Snack on vegetables or fruits in between meals. Make a con-scious effort to include fruits and vegetables in your daily meals. Don't worry so much about foods you shouldn't eat — just work on getting five or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
The American Heart Association recommends that your diet contain whole grains, a variety of fruits and vegeta-bles, low-fat dairy products, skinless poultry and fish, nuts and legumes, and non-tropical vegetable oils.minutes makes a difference.
Eat 5, Move 10, Sleep 8
Move 10. Add at least 10 minutes of moderately intense physical activity to what you do every day. Sure govern-ment recommenda-tions say to include physical activity for 30 minutes or more a day, but the bot-tom line is even 10 minutes makes a difference.
For example, stud-ies have found just 60 to 90 minutes a week of physical activity can reduce your heart disease risk by up to 50 per-cent. That's a big benefit from a pret-ty small commitment on your part. It doesn't have to be elaborate — take the stairs, take a walk, just get moving. As you become more active, you can try to increase your total amount of activity each day.
Aerobics is a great choice for many individuals due to its nature of raising the heart rate and respiration rate without making it too difficult to breathe. Should it ever become too difficult to breathe or speak when exercising it is highly likely you are pushing yourself too hard and you should consider revising your workout regimen.
Sleep 8. Quality sleep is good for your heart. It can be a challenge to make time for good sleep, but it's important. For two weeks try to get eight hours of good, quality sleep each night. Yes, each person's sleep needs vary slightly, but eight is a good number to shoot for.
These life choices do not guarantee you will not experience any heart conditions; however it greatly decreases your odds and puts you on a path to maintaining a strong and healthy heart.
Planned gifts are a very important way to provide for the future of an organization that is important to you. The bequests Elder Care receives make significant contributions to our work with senior adults and caregivers. A planned gift is a gift that involves integrating personal, financial and estate planning concepts with a donor’s plan for lifetime giving. For the donor, a planned gift provides a way to give beyond the use of current assets, and it often provides significant estate tax benefits. A planned gift may require the assistance of a qualified legal or financial advi-sor to help complete the gift.
Many of our supporters have generously demonstrated their commitment to the mission and future of Elder Care by way of a planned gift. Leaving a gift is a uniquely per-sonal decision, but the steps are straightforward, and include:• Arrangingforagiftthroughyourwillortrustasa defined dollar amount, a percentage of estate or remainder amount, or specific items of personal property.• NamingElderCareasabeneficiaryofalifeinsurance policy or retirement account such as an IRA• ReceivingalifetimeincomethroughaCharitableGift Annuity
As we plan for the future, it is helpful to be aware of forth-coming gifts. Our Heritage Society was specially created to recognize donors who have chosen to name Elder Care in their will or estate plan and to insure that their wishes are honored.
Leave a Legacy with Planned GivingBy Deirdre McArdle, Development Director
Fran ensures she gets moving every day dur-ing independent aftercare.
Meet Elder Care's new Administrative Director, Jennifer Ennis.
For the last six years Jennifer served as the Community Relations Coordinator, success-fully increasing awareness and the membership of the Golden Opportunities program. She has also been a key asset in helping to plan and execute Elder Care's annual fun-drasier The Good, The Bad and The Barbeque.
In her new role Jennifer will bring her enthusiausm and knowledge to help further Elder Care's mission and create a welcoming atmosphere for both clients and staff.
