Forget Dementia Day Care! A Visit to Via Cognitive Center

Welcome And Why This Matters

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Hey y'all, the Parenting Up family, we did it again. We went and found something. We're bringing you the hot news. We're at a facility called Via Cognitive Health in Augusta, Georgia. You thought Augusta was just about James Brown and the Master's Golf Tournament. Not. They are doing groundbreaking work on the care, dignity, and assessment of people living with dementia and their care partners. Of course, you know I'm always going to figure out what's going on for the family care partners. Today, I'm going to take you through a day in the offerings for a member. A member of Via Cognitive Health. They have so much programming that is specific for people with dementia. I don't know if you've ever looked into it, but these air quote adult daycare programs, most of them suck because you have to have all your cognitive abilities and be pretty mobile to have any fun, to have any engagement, for anybody to talk to you, but not here. Everybody here, you can only be a part of the cool club if you have dementia. Like you have to have it, or you can't join. You can go for one to two to five days a week, but it's about keeping you engaged so that you can stave off the progression of the disease. I cannot wait to show you everything about the morning and afternoon activities from classes to lunch to the gym and exercise. Yo, listen, why doesn't every city have one of these? Parenting up Caregiving Adventures with comedian J Smile is the intense journey of unexpectedness being fully responsible for my mom. For over a decade, I've been chipping away at the unknown, advocating for her, and pushing all time of awareness on anyone in anything with a heart. Caregiver knowing OD and village members just willing to prop up with caregivers. You are in the right place.

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Supporter Shoutout And Caregiver Reality

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Today's supporters shout out is from YouTube at BrainsandBeauty RA. It definitely changed me. It made me see that there was nobody to take care of me. And for the first time, I was alone. I think I understand the point that this response is going for, which is if your loved one or family member who's your elder is diagnosed with some form of dementia, and they've been caring for you, supporting you, taking care of you in one way or another your whole life, all of a sudden now you can feel left exposed. Like who has your back? Who's taking care of you? Thank you very much for sharing that. I had moments like that with uh when my dad passed, when my mom was diagnosed, because it happened all within three months, and it was pretty tough. Because I'm an only child, and they had been my protection against the evils of the world. But we can all make it if we all stay connected. Now, if you would like to be the recipient of a supporter shout out, please, you know what to do. Leave a review on YouTube or Apple Podcast. As always, we're parenting up everywhere. Today's

Touring Via Cognitive Health

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episode, Forget About Dementia Daycare. A visit to Via Cognitive Center.

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Via Cognitive Health is a campus that has educational programs for individuals that are aging and want to keep sharp. We have programming for individuals that have mild cognitive impairment in the early to middle stages of dementia. And then we also have programs for our care partners and to help them through the process and the path and to be the brightest light that they can be.

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Via cognitive health is in Augusta, Georgia. Yep. Augusta is more than golf, people. Way more than golf. Who knew that Augusta, Georgia was on the cutting edge of dementia care? I didn't either. But as soon as I found out about it, I said, I'ma get my there to check out what they're doing. I've already spent the morning sitting in on classes, talking to staff members, talking to members. That is what you're called if you participate here as a person who has dementia. How much dignity is in that? You know? The fact that you're not called a patient or a sufferer or a sick person. You're a member. And to be a member, you have to have dementia. Somewhere between mild to moderate. So that you can benefit from having engaging activity with other people who are similarly situated. They even have college classes here to keep your brain activated. You're not gonna get credit. But they have classes on genealogy. I even went through a workshop. I mean like a workshop, like a studio where you could build a bike or hammer a nail into a sign to make a sign for your yard. And they had adaptive tools so that you wouldn't hit your hand. I was like, hell, I need that. Do you know how many times I've hit my mom with a hammer? My favorite part of the master's program in product design at Stanford University was in fact that I had a shop, a lab to go work out all of my ideas. And they're able to do that right here to protect their brain health. But they got all kind of other stuff. And so this afternoon later, I'll let you know whatever it is I find out. But for right now, I'm like, yo, these people are knocking it out of the park. Oh, wait, I forgot. Do you know they can take boxing? They have boxing class. I mean real boxing, where they got on boxing gloves and they hit the hands of the big pad thing to do like this. You know why? It's for stability. So it's not that they're trying to teach people how to fight. They're not trying to get people to be aggressive. But if you think about it, if you try to punch something, your torso and your hips move. Therefore, in a very familiar activity, your balance can be improved. So anyway, I'm for here for everything at Via Cognitive Health, and I want to put the rest of the United States, there, I say the globe, on blast with yo, do better. Do better. Don't just have centers for people to go without having programming that meets their needs. Shout out Augusta. It's more than golf.

A Member Shares What Changes

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I'm Jay. I hate Jay. And I'm a care partner. Oh, how wonderful. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 8:36

My mom, my mom is my who I'm caring for. Oh, that's beautiful. Yeah, that's very kind. Some children don't want to do that, and you being one that does is just fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

That's amazing. So we're here at you're a member of the Cognitive Center. I am. And tell me about your experience here.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

I have had a wonderful experience here. If I was not here, I would be home by myself during the day, and I wouldn't have anything to do, you know, except read or watch TV. Here I get to interact with everybody, and there's always a fantastic program that's going on. Okay. And they keep us busy. We have all kinds of different activities. Plus, we do get to work out in the gym, which is wonderful. You excited to work out? Oh, yeah. I think it's great. I think it's terrific. Otherwise, again, I'd be just sitting at home not doing anything. Right. So I would. Do you like to work out? You like to paint? I saw like a craft area. Oh, we have a craft area and we've done some painting. We've done some woodworking. Uh it's just it's fantastic. Woodworking. Oh, yeah, it's wonderful. Did you learn, did you know how to do woodwork before? I was just in there having the time of my life learning how to do it. It was wonderful. Everything here is a new experience. Just grand. That's so great. They're so good to us. Did some how did you know about Via? My granddaughter is um a doctor. Okay. And she found out about it, and she told me that this is the place I needed to be. Okay. So I said, okay, dear, whatever you say. I agree. I'm wonderful that she found it. Yes, I was very lucky. I'm just thrilled to death to be here.

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But congratulations to you for trusting your granddaughter and for giving via Cognitive Center a chance to become a member. Sometimes, Mary, people are not open to change. And they just say, well, you know what? I don't know those people. I don't know that place. I'd rather just stay in my house where I can control things. I think it was very courageous of you to say, you know what, I'll give it a shot. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. You're welcome. You're welcome. Well, it's been nice chatting with you. You have any questions for me?

SPEAKER_00 11:28

No. Okay. I just want to say thank you. Okay. You're welcome so much for what you do. I appreciate it. I'm delayed to be here and I'm glad somebody's helping. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

There's some comfort, which is why I really did want to congratulate her for that. To me, I think it is courageous of what she's what she accepted from her granddaughter.

Why They Reject “Adult Daycare”

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Because there, I it's scary. Yeah.

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When you're coming somewhere like this, you don't know what to expect. And it's like you already understand it's scary. You're like, where am I going?

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You didn't want the diagnosis. Yeah. And now, because it is whatever diagnosis, now you're asking me to uproot or change, and that's, you know, the more we age, the more likely we are going to lean into not changing. And so I just think it's amazing. It's another amazing testament to what you all have created here in the environment and the community that individuals who are older got some not so good news, would say, you know what? I'm gonna go check this place out. Oh, cool. I got new friends, new family, and I'd rather be here every day.

SPEAKER_02 12:47

One of our members, I think he started out two days a week. And then he has been upping it because we had planned. He can go two days a week to five days a week. And um, he showed up one day last week and and uh he's like, I'm coming five days a week from you. So he's like, forget this, yeah. Good for him. He's here every day. I mean, he's uh you know, and there's all different types of people here, and that's one of the things that we try very hard is to make sure that we are representative of our community, not just one segment of our community, so that we have all different types of professions and backgrounds, and because you know, if it's all the same, then we're not gonna attract people to come into it. You gotta have different pockets of friends. Yeah, that's the spark. And our nurse's office actually has its own separate filtration like systems that we can keep. You know, we learned a lot of lessons from COVID. Um that went into design. But then if somebody has an accident, then we have very easy access to the restrooms and there's a shower in here. Um, so it's it's just good.

SPEAKER_01 14:04

That's good. And is this the for anyone to use, or these are these belong to members?

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Some of them belong to members. Okay, yes, it's just our our walker parking. Like we designed that parking. Love it because we want to because in our old space walker parking makes so much sense.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

I've never heard that term.

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That's what we call it. But we we there are just so many walkers everywhere.

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Yeah, yeah. And they need a place to go. This is a great bathroom, very home-like.

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We're trying to not give the sense that you know, something like I would love to be right here. Yeah, you know, I mean, we even thought, you know, we wouldn't want to do anything that was uh automatic because first of all, they don't always work.

SPEAKER_01 14:50

They don't, and it could it could make you think you are doing something incorrect. Yeah, because you where do I I hate that thing?

SPEAKER_02 15:00

Yeah, I just you know, I mean, and so we did that, but we do have odd medicine here, but right now it's a fall. Oh, yeah, good medicine. But even I mean, like our designer, she she was she said, Oh, I found these such pretty bars. Those are pretty. They don't look as industrial, but we got tons of bars everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 15:17

Yeah, you should. Why not? Yeah, but they don't they and they also don't look like I'm feeble. Yeah, I just need some help.

SPEAKER_02 15:28

Like those those art studio, and it's set up for free time. That's why you got games in here. Um I gotcha. But we do a lot of I really like that there's music everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Oh, a lot of places. Yeah, it's so helpful.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

Um, so if we're doing an art project, a lot of times the artists will be up on the screen so people they can talk about the art and then do recreate the art if that's what they're doing. We have plotter.

SPEAKER_01 16:01

So, like, was there a class that went with this? Okay, yeah. Is there um obviously this is not an adult daycare?

SPEAKER_02 16:15

We don't call it that. And first of all, I I hate them. They would not want to, they would say that.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

I don't like, I don't, I've never liked the term.

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And they're they're they provide a great service, but we're just a little bit different. I know.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

What is what is the industry term for what this is? Like when you think there isn't one. I didn't think I was like, because I've never I don't know what you call it. Like people were asking us what will we they've been asking me, so what are you gonna be doing? And I was like, well, I'm going to Augusta, and I was like, um, there's no one else doing what they're doing. And I was like, I don't know if there's a term, so I maybe you all make up one.

SPEAKER_02 16:55

I mean, our members call it school, so that's why we we have um three different lines of service here. And we we um since our tagline is a brighter spark, so that's why we're trying to create a brighter spark. And we also played with that in light in the names of all our programs, and so we have Prism, and that's all about keeping sharp as you age. And so right now we have many college classes going on, which we'll go, I think we might go past one of them going on, where we partner with Augusta University and we have professors come in and teach uh academically rigorous types of classes to really keep your brain going. So that's our Prism program, and that's where our brain health lunch and learns fall into. It's all about brain health and keeping active, and it's it's the why and then the how to do it, so you can do both. And then we have the lens program, which is lens is all about bringing things into focus, and so it's the life-enhancing neurocognitive school. And when we are going through naming this, we talked with our members. I mean, everybody calls it school, anyways, so they they like it. Yeah, yeah. Um, so we call that lens, and then we also for our care partners, that's our beacon program. So we're all about tonight to fuel that light within and to help you along this journey because it is a journey, and we want you to feel empowered to be the best in your job as you can. So that's how that's all our names all.

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We each got one, so we got one down. I don't know if you got a hug before, but oh that's great.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Hey

The Dementia-Only Gym And Assessment

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family, I am in a gym. A gym for only for people with dementia. You have to have dementia to come to this gym. How stinking cool is that? So they have multiple classes, and all of the members get to decide what class they're gonna be in. Now, before you say Jay Smiles, how the hell can a person with dementia decide what class they're gonna be in? Well, listen, don't nobody go call the state or the feds on these on this great facility. What they do is they have the diagnosis from your primary care physician, and they do do their own internal assessment to determine what type of exercises would be safe for you. But let me tell you what I found out. These people work out for an hour. How many of you are working out for an hour a day ever doing anything? We're talking about lifting weights, walking, uh, riding the bike, basketball, shooting, not one-on-one, just shooting the basketball. But the energy, the excitement, the music that I was playing, I was like, yo, I would break a sweat in here. I would absolutely break a sweat in this gym.

SPEAKER_02 19:59

Yeah, we have a bike class, we have somebody that comes in and they've been working on repairing this bike. So that's and um just recently changed the tires and so the tires are there.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

Does someone come in from outside to do like the instructional on the bike, or is that also on your we did.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

We have we had somebody that's come in and help us so that our instructors have more knowledge and more education. So eventually we'd like to expand this program because you know, in addition to the learning and the friends and all of that, when we wake up every morning, we want purpose, right? Yeah, and so more opportunities for purpose as far as volunteering. If we fix up a bike, then you might be able to donate that to somebody that doesn't have transportation.

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And who doesn't feel good about that?

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Yeah, so we worked on this.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

I worked on this bike that's now out there being you. I'm so happy. So listen, I don't want to live in Augusta, Jennifer, okay? So don't keep making it so attractive. Thank you. I'm not interested in living in Augusta. They're gonna be like, what happened, J Spouse? Well, I spend one week a month in Augusta. Why? And I'd be like, come see. This is great.

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We're the

Purpose Projects And Community Roots

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garden sitting, it's a great place.

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Yeah, my favorite auntie, uncle, and cousin were here, so I came alive. I'm just saying, I'm not trying to. No, I don't know how the hell he ended up. Oh no, he uh nope, it was a he's a dentist, and uh the the my uncle is a dentist, and then his son is now a dentist who's now in Atlanta. But when he finished dental school, um the first job he got, or where there was a uh an opening for him to get some tutelage and then start his own practice. So this would have been the 70s, was here. And so he came, he stayed, and he loved it. So I've had a little more experience than just knowing about golf for Augusta because of them.

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Well, let me tell you a story. Uh oh. Um, so I don't know if you know, but a gentleman by the name of Judd C. Hickey was the first dean of the dental school.

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And

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And our first uh building that we had for this program was named the Jud C. Hickey Center in honor of him. So dentist dentistry is a part of your DNA. Oh, oh, absolutely. There were students from the dental school that came together and fundraised to in order to, you know, put together our first building and renovate it. So here we are today. Yeah.

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I mean, dude, y'all got y'all are not gonna lie to part. These are some cool, cool, I was about to curse. These are some really cool stools. Like to me, it's also in, I mean, um, the quality of your furnishings, I guess, or your just the decor, the lights, all of it says the people who are in here matter. It doesn't matter who it is. I'm saying this this could be a functioning for-profit business. I mean, it it looks like and feels like, oh, I could come here, go to work, and be making a widget, put the widget on the internet and sell it. You know what I mean? It doesn't feel like um, it's not an afterthought.

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There's a lot of thought. I mean, oh my god. First of all, I need some of these.

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This is so great. The the black patent leather, come on, that's cushiony.

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These roll up and down so you can stay under skin. Yeah, we thought through. And then you uh yeah, you did. Who doesn't like?

SPEAKER_01 23:33

Listen, I remember the first time I knew that I could just put a pegboard in it. I don't know, growing up, I don't know what I thought. I just I think I thought, you know, if the if the room or the building or the school or the whatever or the garage wasn't built with that, then you can't have it. And I was like, what? I can just I can just add pegboard anywhere to anything.

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It's great.

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It's the it's the niftiest, non-techy thingy that I think, yeah.

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I don't know.

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Most people should.

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There's a lot of stuff in them, you know. And so if it's on the wall, I can see it. I can see it. That's right.

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That's right. Oh man, this is listen, I'm a gadget tooley, fixy, DIY uh chick. And so this right here, oh, and you have the mask. I have masks too in my little workspace areas, and a lot of people don't have masks. And I'm like, uh, what are you doing? You're not, you know, you're not helping your respiratory system. Awesome.

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We have masks, we have um, let's see, adaptive tools. So like this is actually put the nail in, and then you can hammer it here so that you're not having to accidentally hit your hand.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:58

So whoever was helping you all design, were they, did you have to train them about who your members and community would be? Because designing for cognitively impaired individuals, that's they're not teaching at an architectural school, they're not teaching that in design school, not yet, at least. And so, how did I know you said you had some a developer designer working with you, but you all know what you need, but then they might know materials.

SPEAKER_02 25:27

How did that so we have a tremendous support system and our volunteers and our board?

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Okay.

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And we are very intentional about bringing on board members that meet different expertise. We have um the person that started our organization 40 years ago that's a part of our, we have a dementia action alliance that meets, and we're really just that's a really kind of a think tank where we're thinking about um shortfalls and where we can help out. Um but as far as when we started, we formed a future planning committee. And what we did was we had we had about 15 people, we had neurologists, we had nurses, we had board members. A lot of our board members have a family history of knowing somebody that's had Alzheimer's. And so we scoured the country and we looked at building designs. So we were trying to see like who's doing this, and so you know, we learned through that process that we didn't need to renovate a business, an office of offices, um, because then you've got long hallways and it makes it hard to navigate. So through that process, we interviewed people from around the country trying to find models that we could um, you know, model ourselves after. And we ended up one of the uh places is the amazing place in Texas, and we've become great friends with them, and they just have a beautiful program. They just opened up their second um campus, which um is very similar to how we operate. They don't have a gym, but they have a lot of the other components that we have. And our the look and feel of our buildings are very different, but we do a lot of the same work, and and they've just been fantastic. So um, you know, and as we go through it, I mean, we really just make sure. I mean, I'm not an expert in Alzheimer's, you know. I came from another nonprofit, right? But you just you know this. I mean, you surround yourself with people that are way smarter than you are, that are good at it, and you're like, yay. And that's, I mean, you know, it's it's having that drive and grit and perseverance to figure out and constantly adapt so that we're meeting the needs, and we constantly adapt.

Designing Spaces For Dignity

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Kudos. I don't know what's bigger than kudos that I could say that's you know politically correct. Because I I'm a proper cursing Catholic Southern woman. So unless the Pope is in the room, my grandmother was spitting them out. She was from New Orleans, so but I'm keeping it together.

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But I want to say, like, I mean, you do whatever you wanted to. We have plenty of, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:04

Yeah, like I said, you know, everybody here, we say everybody's an adult. You can have your own opinions, you could do whatever you want. I mean, like, you can get angry about something. It's okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:14

Yeah, because we're that is a right, it's a natural response. Yeah, it happens.

Gardening Electives And Joyful Surprises

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Cabbages and we have some Brussels sprouts and broccoli.

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So is this uh an activity? It's a program, yeah. So it's uh there's some that are like, I'm a part of the garden club, so to speak. So some members are like, I really am into gardening, da-da-da-da. And so, but this is um they can choose, or just or do you already encourage everybody to garden?

SPEAKER_02 28:52

Um, they can choose if they if they want to be out here. And um, I mean, we we do this is a more stable area. So we have a um herb garden on our porch for our less stable folks. I gotcha. Yeah, and we do have we have a bunch of um they're like wheelers and sit. You can sit and say you can garden, okay, um, which is very nice. Um but then we also will do programs on rosemary and all the way that rosemary can be used. So it's twofold. So you can be in the club, sniffing, planting, right into the garden, or you might just be learning about the garden.

SPEAKER_01 29:27

So I love it. So who's in charge of the garden to even know what you're doing? Y'all have a garden expert, like a planting somebody, something like well, we have a uh she's not here right now, but she's we have an education and outreach director.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

Her name is Maggie Bray, and um she so she does all she puts together our elective. So this is an elective programming. Okay, and then she does outreach in the community as well. But we're just fortunate because she went to Barry College, uh-huh, and Barry has a very um agriculture-based uh curriculum, and so she just came with all that knowledge. She just knows it, right?

SPEAKER_01 30:05

And you're like, great, yeah. I was gonna say, if anybody tried to ask me to assist with a gardening program, I'm like, no, honey, I can't. I know that that's soil, I would have called it dirt, except there's something green coming out. So now I know that's soil and not dirt. But so I was like, who's not me.

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This right here. Okay, so this, they had they had um started with seeds for cucumbers.

SPEAKER_01 30:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 30:31

And they planted, um, and I don't know exactly what kind of plants these are right now. Okay. They had planted them in those those beds over there. And they came out the next morning, and there were little holes where a squirrel had to come and take and eat every single cucumber.

SPEAKER_01 30:49

That's hilarious. That they knew exactly where to go. They're like, yeah, that's not what I didn't know. Squirrels like cucumbers. That is that's I I I can't. I just I cannot get over in a totally positive way how intentional everything is and how organically you all have created the programming or the electives, right? Not saying, okay, we're gonna have three things and we're gonna do it, you know, it's not that um sterile. And uh, I just congratulate you all for being able to stay so true to your original mission. That's not always easy as stuff expands and it grows, and then more people are involved, and then when you get donors and investors, and maybe they might want to try to have something to say, but you guys seem to really like, hey, you know, we're making magic over here.

Mind Diet Habits And Home Support

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We have sugar stuff.

SPEAKER_01 32:01

Yeah, stevia. That's but that's all that we have in my house. Stevia and monk fruit.

SPEAKER_02 32:05

Oh, yeah, monk fruit.

SPEAKER_01 32:06

Yeah, those are the two. I mean, I uh, well, family and friends when they come over, they're like, you know, if you're going over to Jays, you gotta bring your own snacks. Because since I have, I know, since I have um, you know, caregivers are with my mom. And and I know you're fully aware of how fast care in-home caregiving caregivers can turn over. And so I'm trying to, I got too paranoid about trying to make sure that they were not giving my mom the sugary snacks and giving her the non-sugary snacks. I was like, you know what? This one may do this, Jay. You just you you can't have it either. Like, not at home. So at home, everything in the pantry, everything in the refrigerator and freezer, if they if they pick anything, they could give it to Zetty. They could give it to Zetty.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:54

And then that just means I have to go have my sugar fixed somewhere else. I dwell. Yeah, because we have a um But people hate coming to my house, they're like, Where's necks? And I was like, we have health conscious snacks.

SPEAKER_02 33:04

Well, we have this program for our early stage, and we do it within our program where we're empowering you to make the lifestyle changes at home, too. Okay. So one of them goes through the mind diet, and sometimes our members will say, Well, I would love to eat like this, but my sister does all the cooking, and she does not cook like this. So kudos to you for doing it, making sure that it's that's all that's successful. So that's it.

SPEAKER_01 33:29

Like, I I'll mom can't have dairy, so all I have is almond milk and you know, like, so I don't have no, I don't have any sugar in the house. I was like, Well, I got this stevia and this butt fruit. Yeah. The snuggle love.

A Challenge To Every City Plus Closing

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This is the deal, people. If there's something missing in your community and it's burning your stomach, making you not be able to sleep at night, maybe it's because you should be the spark to bring that service or product or community together. What I witnessed here at Via Cognitive Health has blown my mind. I've been a lot of places, a lot of conferences, a lot of facilities, a lot of things that are ranked in the reports of we're the best at the world and doing the blah, blah, blah. Not a lot of people are even trying to understand how to support and nurture people's brain health in advance of a disease. Let alone say we're gonna see you with dignity and humanity from the mild to moderate stages. And we're gonna have activities scheduled just for you. Who's doing that? This stuff is so groundbreaking and so new, the industry doesn't even have a name. It's a certain amount of adult daycare. It is not a senior center. I don't know what the hell it is. This is like some super calibrate just X Pi Alados just like it's just you know what it is? It's it's dementia heaven. It's dementia heaven. So listen, thank you to everybody who had anything to do with putting this facility together. And those of you who don't live in Augusta, look them up on the website because maybe there is something in your community that is similar. Thank you for tuning in. I mean, really, really, really thank you so very much for tuning in. Whether you're watching this on YouTube or if you're listening on your favorite podcast audio platform. Either way, wherever you are, subscribe. Come back. That's the way you're gonna know when we do something next. Y'all know how it is. I'm Jay Smiles. I might just drop something hot in the middle of the night.