Plan Life Care owner Anthony Ford, was on the Focus on Senior Lifestyle show 4/12/18 starting at 8.30 am. I will be on once a month, every second Thursday at 8.30am
The topics include:
A unique integration of services to keep the senior safe, independent and at home.
How Anthony’s personal experiences have shaped how home care is delivered by Plan Life Care.
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yep and first up this morning we’re
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going to be talking with Anthony Ford
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he’s back with us
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he’s from planned life care and there’s
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lots to know about planned life care we
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learned last time about how Anthony all
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the all the different things that you’d
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do so welcome this morning
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well good morning well thanks for having
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me back home well you’re certainly
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welcome and what we learned last time
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was that you know you’re able to really
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bring services to people wherever they
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are you know we talked about it being
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home care but gosh there’s so many
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different ways that you can bring
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services people might be in the hospital
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maybe or maybe they’re in an assisted
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living but when they’re at home you know
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sometimes we love our home but our home
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doesn’t always love us back you know
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there there are issues that have to be
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done to make a home safe so talk a
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little bit about how you do that with
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plan Life Care well it’s the combination
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if you’re going to stay in the home the
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home had better be the best best place
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for you and so I came across this case
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so if I may just quickly talk it’s uh
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basically it was someone coming out of
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rehab the house needed some fixing it
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needed some safety features and he needs
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some cleaning out but then I can plan
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that together with the in-home
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services so that both services
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complement each other they happen at the
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right time and they bring the person
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safe back home from rehab
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yeah and that’s such a critical factor
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and timing is so important because you
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know when a discharge is going to take
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place many times you know you’re you’re
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almost getting last minute notice you’re
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trying to track it butBut you but you’ve
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got to be there right I mean the timing
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is a critical thing for a safe discharge
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you’ve got to be flexible there’s no
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doubt about it because rehabs like to
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spring surprises sometimes it’s like
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okay he’s ready to go out and you’ve got
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to have the house ready and you’ve got
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to have the home in home care ready as
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well and at least bringing those two
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services under one company really helps
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with the flexibility the planning of
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that and getting it done at the right
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time
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so for our listeners and they’re maybe
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they’re now sitting in their home
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they’ve got a cup of coffee they’re
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looking around and saying gee Anthony’s
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talking about whether my home is safe or
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not what are the kinds of things that
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you think people might be or should be
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concerned about when they are
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considering safety in their home well
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first of all the biggest misconception
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is you have to spend a lot of money to
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make these safety improvements some of
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it can be as simple as clearing the
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walkways so planning the route that the
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person who maybe has his mobility
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compromised planning the routes they’re
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going to take around the house and just
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make getting rid of the clutter it can
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be as simple as that
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then you move on to other things like
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grab bars ramps as appropriate and then
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there’s a whole ream of other
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adaptations you can do to make the home
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the best place yeah well in in I know
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it’s and it’s true that you know for
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many people you don’t even maybe even
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realize you know what what what’s going
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on in your home until it’s brought to
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your attention and can you go in and
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help people to just take a peek at their
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home and talk about the home safety oh
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sure yeah I’ll come along and I’ll talk
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to anyone no obligation no charge
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into a basic safety inspection I’ll make
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suggestions if you want to include my
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services to make those changes that’s
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that’s all well and good but I’ll come
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along and do an assessment for anyone
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well this is what’s important about
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really being a resource in the community
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as you are and and we’re gonna we’re
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gonna take a break and when we come back
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we’re gonna learn more Anthony about how
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planned life care is differentiated how
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people can know that the value in the
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services that you provide so we’ll be
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well welcome back to focus on senior
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lifestyles this is Tom on Lok I’m your
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host and we’re talking with anthony ford
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from planned life care and Anthony’s
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been telling us about the services that
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that he and his company provide and one
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of the things Anthony that we know is
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that there are lots of options out there
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many many different companies who try to
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help people in their homes and I know
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one of the things that you really focus
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on are kind of these guiding values that
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help you in how you help older people so
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could you talk a little bit about those
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values well I take a very simple
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approach to this I got into this
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business when I became Guardian of my
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own mother and I wanted to set up home
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care for her and it becomes very simple
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to know what the right thing to do is
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when you look at everyone through that
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lens you know what you went through with
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your mother
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you know how you’d react to that and
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that’s how you deal with any situation
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with with your clients it makes doing
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the right thing very easy yes yeah well
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I think as I know about your your
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history you’ve actually helped your
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mother I mean that’s that’s bouncing in
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your in your life experience yep she’s
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still going strong under home care and
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outlived all the prognosis I had so ya
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know very very good so it’s that it’s
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that personal approach and looking at
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each person individually and then
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responding to them right yes
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yeah but having those core principles
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which guide how you approach each
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individual situation but there are
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principles that override you know
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big-eyed what you should how you should
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be approaching everything and I know in
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addition to that you have you have
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principles with your with your employees
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as well and how you approach them and
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could you just comment briefly about
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about how you how you approach your your
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staff your your team it’s again very
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simple basis I treat them with respect I
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pay them above average
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giant of eyes in very specific ways in
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order to encourage the best possible
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experience so that they feel confident
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and happy and cared for so they can
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provide the good level of care
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well I we’re gonna we’re going to just
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do a little shift here Anthony and we
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also have in our in ours
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James Wood and it’s baseball time we’re
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gonna talk a little baseball here and
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have an opportunity to learn a little
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bit more about the art Tortugas and and
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the way that they’re they’re going about
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their their new season and so James
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welcome thank you thanks for having us
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today
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yeah good good to have you here and what
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an exciting time always you know that
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opening day that opening part of the of
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the season and there’s lots of optimism
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and excitement and and good news is this
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this team has gotten off to a great
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start that they have we were on a
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six-game winning streak we we had a
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doubleheader yesterday 111 to 8 and then
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2 to nothing last night which was also
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one of our Silver Slugger nights last
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night so see more about Silver Slugger
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so our silver sluggers are a sixty and
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order crowd where we offer a membership
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package 30 bucks for 11 games worth
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since we have one so there’s 10 games
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remaining it breaks down to about 3
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bucks a game that they get to come out
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and enjoy baseball throughout the entire
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summer terrific Wow and and how how is
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the participation been in that program
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we’ve we’ve increased our numbers over
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the over the last few years you know the
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senior population we know that they were
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kind of more on a fixed budget kind of
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deal so the the 30 bucks for the
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membership really works out great for
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them they can enjoy a great pastime
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history as far as being to enjoy
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baseball get to see some players that
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are growing up through the system
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learning as they go to make way on their
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major league on their way to the major
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leagues yeah yeah well in and you talk
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about how how affordable this is and
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that really is an important part for all
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of us but particularly
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people who are on fixed incomes right
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and you know along with the
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affordability we also tune into their
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their their health or the healthy being
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kind of deals so we you know one of the
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examples I was talking to you this
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morning about was the the stroll around
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the ballpark so we walk around the
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warning track to kind of get some steps
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in and some movement you know prior to
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the game starting so you know just count
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those last little few steps before
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getting the game underway so yeah and is
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it true that that’s a timed event that
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you have to have to finish it in a
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certain time yes it is everybody’s out
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there doing it’s not a straw for easy
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stroll for a reason right yeah exactly
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yeah yeah and so so this is really a
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unique experience how many of the how
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many those games do you have during the
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season so we have ten ten more Silver
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Slugger games remain in so there’s still
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good value on that on the dollar time
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for them and you know practically after
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they reached four games or ten four
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games they get their money’s worth it’s
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like the as I’d like to say so but then
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there’s also added value in the fact
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that we give them a you know a free
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drink you bond for a small soda or
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coffee they get a free t-shirt free
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parking on those nights so it’s a great
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value it’s so it did actually honestly
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pays for itself within the first two
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games excellent well we’re gonna take a
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break and when we come back we’re going
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to learn a little bit more about the
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experience of getting into the stadium
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and and the schedule of games and times
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and those kinds of things and how people
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daytona Tortugas and James talked a
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little bit about something new that’s
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it’s um we’ve got what we’re about to
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so a little bit tidbit early bird news
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gonna do a nice you heard it here on WSB
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be yeah so IB $24.99 per month they’ll
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be able to attend you’ll get a message
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on your phone and they’ll send you
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as you want for that one price so with
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typically 15 games per month at $24.99
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the great experiences for grandparents
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is being with their grandchildren and
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what a nice outing to be able to go out
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and see a game it is yeah well what kind
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of experiences do you have for or can a
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grandparent expect when they’re bringing
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their young person to to a game so we’ve
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and a accuracy pitch
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bit earlier about the volunteer
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get the popcorn peanuts hotdogs
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hamburgers out to our fans so there’s a
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couple of different variety of
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opportunities there James tell our
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listeners how they can reach the Dayton
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with tortugas you can email us at info
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at daytona Tortugas dot-com you can call
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the office three eight six two five
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seven three one seven two or visit our
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website
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Daytona Tortugas comm so great to have
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you here and we’re gonna know we’re
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gonna pick up our conversation with
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anthony ford now
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Anthony’s still with us in the studio
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and Anthony you know you’ve got a home
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run program going to so we’re not going
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to leave you out of this baseball
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analogy so I know that you know you’re
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out there in the community and you’re
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you’re making a lot of connections tell
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us a little bit about the about what
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you’re going on and who you’re
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interacting with out in the community
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might that might be helpful to our
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listeners well one of the great things
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about this area is the number of
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resources a number of great great people
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who are out there assisting seniors in
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all different aspects of their life I
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want to give a quick shout out if I may
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to Julian canty Leo he’s from our
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seniors net they also have a magazine
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type publication he’s doing wonderful
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work interviewing inspirational seniors
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and he’s just an old lovely person so
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want to give a quick shout out to my
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good friend they’re no good that’s great
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you know and one of the things that that
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I know I’m impressed with in the
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services that you provide and you’ve
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really been thinking about these
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transitions you know people you know
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life changes and sometimes maybe a
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person’s at home and they’ve got to be
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thinking about moving to an assisted
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living there are important ways that you
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can help them in that transition right
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well yeah I mean any of these
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transitions from home to assisted living
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or back from rehab into the home
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environment is a very stressful time I
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see that day-in day-out and I have
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specific programs in place to assist the
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right levels of care carefully fall out
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procedures protocols to assist in those
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processes yeah and and I know we’ve
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talked some about how you price those