Operating in the New Normal, Part 1 with Daphne Davis
Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about COVID-19 changes and operating in the “new normal.”
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The following podcast is provided by pinnacles senior placements LLC and answers for elders radio, and welcome everyone to answers for elders radio, as we are again working from our homes here and not the studio, and I am a so honored again that we have our very favorite guests, Daphne Davis, here with us for talking about how we’re dealing with the current scenario with covid nineteen and all the different things that are going on with our families in our senior living communities and specifically you definitely welcome to the show well. Thank you too much. I’m thrilled that we can use technology and figure out how we can keep some kind of, quote, normalcy in our routine here at answers for elders. We are and you know, Daphy, I have to say I am so thrilled to be able to talk to you. There’s so much going on and yet, you know, it seems like it’s the same old, same old, but as we are evolving with this process, it’s not seem all same old. There’s new things that are happening, there’s new things that are popping up where many of our counties are moving into phase two and what’s specifically, does that really mean, and all that stuff. So tell us a little good about what’s going on in the Industry today. Well, right now, I have to tell you that people are continuing to get good care. It’s just a little bit more creative in how we discover that good care and how we build relationships. But people are still doing fine. I want to tell you. I mean there’s weet. We’re getting weary. All of us are weary, whether you’re yeah old or ten years old and not in school or you know, doing your your thirty year old stuff that you do, or a year old, we’re all getting weary in this and so I implore everybody to just keep your patients, keep your smile, know that we’re all in the same spot together still and our humanity will rise to the occasion. Our hearts will be there if we focus on that. So keep our heart centered. Remember. I can’t say that’s enough. The smile keeping. I see so many people with long faces right now. We’re weary, and so I’ve been trying to do my my smile when I’m in my car or at the grocery store or something. Just what extra little dom in your eye might go a long way for someone. So it’s very simple. But we’re going to get to this. In terms of moving into face to there are some counties in our state are in faith too. We are not yet in King peers and SNOWHO whish, but we will be so, hopefully and hopefully unfortunately. Well, that’s a good thing that we’re moving forward in this forface thing, but for our seniors who are the most vulnerable to this virus, we still need to be very cautious and conservative in terms of our interactions. So right at that point of view that we still want to protect the most vulnerable people. So don’t don’t think that everything is going to be wider than here in terms of assisted livings or adults have we call hospitals nursing homes. Still going to have lots of guidelines for us to follow. Sure, sure, well, and you know it’s interesting, death need could because I think in a certain ways, at least the certain seniors that I’ve spoken to, there’s a little bit of fear factor there as the state is starting to open, because they are so vulnerable and because there’s been so much irresponsibility around people in the state that are making it harder. And I think one of the things that I have seen, like you know, it’s still appalls me that, you know, walking into my grocery store or I see probably a third of the people in there without masks on. That concerns me. You know, yes, for the people that are were not wearing masks, that’s that’s their issue right, but that the what scares me is that single mom that’s, you know, working as an essential employee for everybody else so that we can purchase our groceries and yet, you know, there’s no regard for them and what they’re bringing home to make thee that they have a senior loved one that lives with them or something like that. So there’s that element of fear that is going on. And then the other thing that I’m hearing from Executive Directors of communities as families are getting restless. It’s like, well, can I just take dad out for a walk outside when we both wear masks, or can’t I? You know, I if I wear a mask, why can I come and visit? You know, those kinds of things, and and it’s it’s making sure that everyone understands that this is for dad’s safety and it’s just we’re opening up and you know it is in the best interest of the senior living community to reunite seniors with their family members, and it’s a process you now if is there in life, and you know it is very hard and there’s lots of thoughts around everything that you just said. I personally think that we need to constantly remember your level of risk that you’re willing to take on personal level. Let’s say you don’t have the restrictions of community of Care Right. So, if you’re in your own homes and figuring out what’s best for your loved ones, go with what your information gathering is and what your personal family level of risk is. If your mom and dad are still in your own home, you have to make your own decisions there sure, and gather the information that you think is right for your family. So it is really hard, but we can continue to do creative things. I would love, Love, love love to have the mailman innovated with lots of mail going to our seniors. Just make those mail boxes full, have a daily post guard, send a wrapped up cookie and whatever it is. That something exciting to go. Oh, I’m going to go check my moil box today it’s so true and there are ways that we can be creative and I would love to talk about that later in the hour because I think that they’re as a lot of opportunities for us as a community to come together. I also know, just as senior communities as a whole, they’re doing everything kid thing that they can to ramp up the social interaction within their walls and within their you know, within their properties, and I think that’s really an exciting thing that’s going on and certainly, you know, everybody is stepping up and one of the things that I’m learning so much it’s just how much in I I am of our providers out there, people like you, people like you know are senior living organizations. I spoke with Antelo Brigands, who is the executive director ever at harbor point, just yesterday and she was telling me a lot about what they’ve done, done things extra in their communities so that, you know, seniors can come together and, you know, with their loved one in a new way. And on Mother’s Day they arranged a big parade getting believe, and they brought seniors out into the balconies of the property in the way it lays around. They had thirty cars and all they encourage reality come to dress up their cars. They they sent images of each one of their seen, you know, their family members. They took pictures in the community and then the community actually sent the family that they the proof so that they could go get up image blown up so that their loved one could see that it was their family. And what they did was they actually came in with all these cars and they showed pictures of their loved ones in this caravan and they had thirty cars. Thirty cars on Mother’s Day and she said it lasted for two and a half hours as they were all parked out there all the way around in like a surrounding the building and everybody. They had music, they had blues, they had all kinds of stuff that they celebrated mother’s Day that way and I thought, you know, that is so darn creative. I was so impressed with you know, it’s amazing how, hard times people could come together. You can. It’s just think it outside the box and doing a little bit extra. I mean it’s a little bit out of our normal routine, but it goes far. That little extra energy that you can is well well worth it. So very good. I yeah, I do think there’s a lot of positive things going on, but at the same time, just making that extra phone call, making the little things on an individual level remembered matters. If you three somebody, call them, if you somebody, send them the note. If you’ve got that box of cards that you’re intend to send everybody, how that box of cards empty, you know, by the end of June. Make it happen. Great idea. Pick up some stamps for you. I mean, not only does I give to somebody else, but you will be amazed at how it how it it motivates you, it gets you out of your own thoughts. You the listener right now. The little effect is huge by giving of yourself and it’s a smart little thing. S I think it’s a fifty two cent stamped and some time with the pen in your hand and sharing some thoughts. Yeah, and you know I’m going through all pic if you’re going through old pictures, throw in a picture or something that I might have done, you know, to your friend, you know, when you’re you know, grade school friends or something. Put the picture in the card and let that stimulate somebody’s mind and memories. I mean it’s little things it really doesn’t make that much and as we’re all in our own homes, think about how much we’re cleaning out things like. Well, am the mail body. You know, you have been such a wonderful lynchpin, and I you know you use that term metaphorically, to our senior communities because you really work with the families and help them figure stuff out. And I know now there’s a lot of challenges going on with how do I better take care of my senior loved one, and I would love to explore that in the next segment. So I’m definitely everyone definitely will be with us the whole hour today. So I know everybody loves to hear her and let’s talk about that. Let’s talk a little bit about how families can work with in the senior environment of what we have right now. And so, in the meantime, Daphne, how do it’s everyone reach you before we transition to the next saige segment? Well, I’ve been through pist so many people are reaching out to me, but it’s eight five five seven, three four one thousand five hundred is our phone number. That’s eight five five seven, thirty four one thousand five hundred and of course, that Pinnacle Senior Placementscom perfect well DAP May. Everyone will be right back right after this. The preceding podcast was provided by pinnacles senior placements LLC and answers for elders radio. To contact pinnacles senior placements, go to pinnacles senior placementscom
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Originally published May 17, 2020