a wonderful agency called lifelong medical care lifelong medical career is an innovative nonprofit federally qualified hill center that serves people in alameda contra costa and meridian counties so now we're going to see their wonderful tape  so i found out that i was pregnant and didn't have insurance at the time it's just been such a great resource and i've been so thankful the life long is here and the people here were really reassuring there were consistent tests and then protocols that they had in place in then centering pregnancy group is called where other women who are pregnant come then we had appointments at the same time you also got a community too and right now i'm going to what's now called center in parenting and it's the same people from that group so it's a it's a community to serve low income older people but in the mid ninety's it became a full range of services for moms and kids adults and older people lifelong service more than forty thousand patients per year they come from county but they also come from contra costa and the rand as well by flying offers a variety of services including medical services of course that's primary physician care but also dental services mental health services for people who are homeless we try to make sure that they are placed in housing because often for almost person housing is that first of intervention we can make lifelong people we've been working with people set healthy habits that are going to last them for a lifetime you the support that you're with me that's what i like and that's why it's important to happen what we want to do here is try to make school a one stop shop for the students so when they come to school not only are they getting them  cation good but we're also able to address their health care whether it be first be whether it be supervision of for chronic illnesses or just to make sure that if they was much more having much more difficulty getting motivated to do things we had been trying for some time during that time to get him in gage and get him involved in activities and we learned about the center through the v a the v a doctors who recommended that dad get involved everything seemed to fall in place all the sudden he started making connections for people like joseph fernandez adult day health care is an absolutely critical service what we're trying to do is work with people who pose complex medical problems and serious disabilities often to manchester and keep them in the community and as healthy as they can be the adult pay health care really is so way to get people almost daily medical management and physical therapy type of help which allows them to stay at home and also makes a tremendous difference for their caregivers family members often who have to go to work during the day and have to live a life on their own without that kind of help often people like mr fernandez would have to go into a nursing home we want them to be able to live out their life with a really good quality of life and we want to be able to enjoy themselves stated they just great that we could do this together and we're like a team you know i  think it's nice that dad is enjoying and i get the benefit of just feeling good that he's taking care of and he's got a place to go and he's got friends you know so this is very make you think anyone could possibly use them and you've just seen the stack of quilts that were given to the center and program at west berkeley makes me feel like it's all worthwhile  other so i've been fortunate that i get to do a few house calls so even though we're what about twenty miles away something like that were distance from the over sixty site i'll come down and see  agencies and all the people that are now working together through lifelong groups like community health center to bring this event right here to san pablo so without further ado i'm going to introduce marty lynch now adays life long runs clinics from east oakland through berkeley and now into richmond and we thought if we work together we can get better service is stronger services for services for the whole with the same great people but just even more of it so they need to see a doctor tell me exactly what their readings mean and i think it's really important for us to come out to community events like this and provide some kind of service to the community  out thinking about how big how the behaviors has so much we can do as medical professionals how to help people with their health but at the end of the day what you do at home is so much more important than what you do with your life whether it be exercise or healthy food that's really important to your house i think brookside i it's very boring it's part of the community and i think it's very important oh institutionalization my mother had been here visiting and january and in april i went to florida to take her to an angiogram tast and so i just seen are a few months before she was fine but on this trip there was something wrong i couldn't put my finger on it but i knew something was wrong with her so took her to her doctor they five i was out of my mind so i packed up her condo we shipped her furniture her car we put her condo on the market and we flew to california and three weeks later she was in a coma and had to have a brain  everything he is the most wonderful son and nobody could have a nicer burthen he's just super we receive calls from family members at the point this organization me this group of amazing people will help you in every way we can help you with the times that are really tough and we will be privileged to share the times that are really really wonderful if we didn't exist here in marine county and where the only adult house on tour in the county probably thirty percent of the folks that are here right now would need to be institutionalized in a nursing facility in the next thirty to sixty days the social worker told me and i'm so grateful for this she told me about this program and she said you've got to get your mother in this program she will have it she will thrive and it will really benefit her i would say definitely this is a perfect place for anyone spirit i really would and because it's just a great place i love betty and i love her son they're happy wonderful warm people and she enjoys it here so i am the only licensed nurse here i'm in good close contact with physicians when there are major changes someone tells me they think there might be a problem then i take care of it immediately i notify the doctor right away my name is maria martinez and this is my mother martinez the center she comes here three times a week they do that she said tending of course she has supervision she's not as anxious as she's doing something she's constantly active when the doctors first diagnosed my mother's diagnoses else timers they were discussing we had a family meeting and talked to my father and i they sat us down and talked about possibility of preparing for placing her like in a skilled nursing facility just because l simers is a very progressive disease professionals come into the picture like shall drink more fluids by the nurse asking her to the best thing about the people that are advanced with their roles timers here is there's a routine here they come they do the same thing several days they see the same people and then you get a bright glimpse of them where they will say something that's completely clear and that's my favorite part of the day i know i can go to work i know i do not have to worry that ocean wants to wander off or she had a fall i'd like to think that we extend a person's independence to be able to live in their community whether it's in their family home or in a  organized residential care facility for the elderly which is still not skilled we can extend their time of this time of independence for up to four five years lifelong program is the only stressed i would be really depressed we consider it our privilege to be partners with you in this process we believe we have the expertise we have the compassion we have the infrastructure and the support of a wonderful organization lifelong medical care to be able to provide quality care for your loved one while they can stay in the home for a longer amount of time it's program like wife long to turn to and people need to know about this program and people need to support this program and any way they can we are able to provide a ray of treatments that are indeed like a skilled nursing facility except just for the day it's just a great place and there everybody is nice and it doesn't matter who you are you know they're nice everybody and they're really great so i would recommend them to everybody hello again i'm sally baker the host of we poets i hope you enjoyed watching this wonderful tape thank you so much for watching good bye