Speaker 1
Good Saturday morning to you, everybody. Welcome to your next chapter of production of The Heights at Avery Heights, a one-of-a-kind senior living community centrally located near the most entertaining and historical spots ever in the state of Connecticut. It is never too late to grow and enjoy new realms of the mind and heart.

Speaker 1
Your next chapter delves deep into topics that will improve the way that we think about aging, senior living, and the retirement years. It’s actually a time to celebrate our seniors, give them wholehearted encouragement to bravely step up to new experiences with optimism, inner peace, and the courage to never give up on growing. We’re going to discuss exciting opportunities, important resource for older adults, financial well-being, senior living communities, and emotional health. Along with Siobhan Mattingly, I’m Gary Byron. Good morning, Siobhan. Nice to see you. Hello. Hello. Good morning. Good top of Good day to you.

Speaker 1
Would you like tea and crumpets this early?

Speaker 2
I would.

Speaker 1
Yes, me too. I would. How have you been?

Speaker 2
Very good.

Speaker 1
Nice to see you. How was your week?

Speaker 2
My week was phenomenal.

Speaker 1
Yeah.

Speaker 2
Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff.

Speaker 2
Good stuff. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 2
Yeah. We’re excited at the heights at Avery Heights.

Speaker 1
As you should be.

Speaker 2
Very busy. We got a lot going on. A lot of great residents coming in.

Speaker 2
That’s great. Yeah. I like to hear that.

Speaker 2
Yep. We just did a veterans reception a couple weeks ago. It was phenomenal for our new recipient.

Speaker 2
We honored for our Veterans Wall. Bi-monthly we’ll be doing that, putting a new person up on our wall, and it was wonderful.

Speaker 1
I’ve seen the wall.

Speaker 2
His associates came from his law firm. Oh, wow. And, yeah, they were all dressed up in their suits, and he just was – and everyone came over.

Speaker 2
All the veterans came over and shook his hand, and it was wonderful. And, of course, his wife cried, and it was nice. It was very nice.

Speaker 1
You know, here we are – well, this is kind of a weird thing because it’s not typical. Here we are in the middle of winter, right? I mean, it doesn’t feel like winter.

Speaker 1
It doesn’t seem, doesn’t even look like winter. Nonetheless, what’s different about winter at Avery Heights as opposed to, you know, because there’s like summer activities. People can be outdoors.

Speaker 1
It can be coming and going. Usually wintertime it’s associated with, and I don’t care how old you are, people hibernate a lot in the winter. You know, they don’t go out and see much, you know, until the spring or not even early spring.

Speaker 1
What festivities or what ongoings do you have in the winter months?

Speaker 2
Yeah, I think what’s different and what’s nice about and really where a senior living community shines is really in the colder months. Because like we were talking about on a previous show, you could just walk out your door of your apartment and have activity as opposed to having to get in the car. Especially a few weeks ago, a couple weeks ago, it was freezing out, right?

Speaker 2
It was cold. Who wants to go out in that? Well, you don’t have to.

Speaker 2
We actually had a concert that weekend that folks went to, I think, at Weaver High School. And so the van pulls up to the door, picked people up, and took them to the concert. Now think about it.

Speaker 2
If you were home by yourself as an older adult, no way you’re going to want to start the car, warm it up.

Speaker 1
No, you wouldn’t even go.

Speaker 2
You don’t have to worry about that. And the van is handicap accessible. So if you’re in a wheelchair or a walker, it has like an elevator where it can just bring you right on to the van.

Speaker 2
So I think that activity-wise, we have a lot of music coming in. We have, you know, exercise-wise, we have a full wellness center. We have a pool.

Speaker 2
We use the Wii machine, you know, to get people to exercise as well. So I think that that’s where a senior living community shines is in these colder months. Because even medical transportation, you know, getting out to the doctor.

Speaker 2
I mean, who wants, again, warm up the car, blah, blah, blah, blah. They just get on the van, go to their doctor’s appointment, come back, have some lunch, and enjoy themselves. So I think it helps with the socialization a lot and really preventing that isolation.

Speaker 2
because in the winter when you’re at home, even myself, I mean, as a, you know, almost older, older adult, it’s like, I don’t even want to, you know, my son was like, uh, hibernated with my grandson kind of hunkered down and hibernated the weekend when it was cold. He says, we’re not going anywhere. And he’s in his thirties.

Speaker 2
And I’m like, you’re not going anywhere. I mean, you’re young and spry. What do you mean?

Speaker 2
Yeah. But they didn’t even want to go out. So imagine if you’re older and you can feel that cold, you know, you know, and to that

Speaker 1
point, there are people of all ages who get seasonal depression.

Speaker 2
Yes. You know? Yeah.

Speaker 1
Although this year, like I said, this has been a really unique winter thus far. It’s still cloudy, though. The cloudiness. Yeah, I know. That brings us down.

Speaker 2
I mean, you look outside and it’s just bleh.

Speaker 1
But when a senior has seasonal depression, particularly a senior who is still residing maybe at home alone, that’s different because you get a husband and wife or a family of three or four or whatever, and there’s other people that kind of lift your spirits. oh, come on, let’s put a movie in. Or we were talking last week about music therapy and how it triggers happy moments, for the most part, you hope. But when a senior lives alone at home and it gets darker early or it’s colder, it’s inclement weather, and it’s just a person home with their thoughts, It can be not only disturbing but downright sad.

Speaker 2
Yeah, it is. And the decline. I mean it’s so neat to see people come to the community and just come to life.

Speaker 2
And especially when they make friends, like a really like a best buddy. There’s this couple of ladies in our community. I absolutely love them.

Speaker 2
They even started to dress alike. It’s hysterical. But it’s so sweet.

Speaker 2
I mean they do everything together. They go get the mail together. They go to meals together.

Speaker 2
They work out at the gym together. But they’re always out and about buzzing around. And they go to the hairdresser together.

Speaker 2
But it’s nice because, you know, they’re buddies. They’re friends. And it’s really neat.

Speaker 2
And it’s funny. They both use, one of them uses a walker or a wheelchair. But it’s neat, like, when they kind of choose almost like an accessory, which one they’re going to use.

Speaker 2
It’s kind of wild. But it’s really neat to have them in the community. And it’s encouraging.

Speaker 2
I love seeing those types of friendships blossom.

Speaker 1
Companionship. Do you think it adds to the longevity of life as opposed to a person who has just left? in solitude, alone with their thoughts and loneliness. It definitely does.

Speaker 2
And I think that’s across the board, like you were saying before. I mean, we see it like, for example, in recovery world. Like they’re always talking about don’t isolate because when we’re left to ourselves, we kind of get into trouble.

Speaker 2
You know what I mean? And so for older adults, they get into trouble in a different way. You know, that’s some of the stuff we’re going to talk about today.

Speaker 2
So you think about what happened during COVID. I mean, we saw it. We saw during COVID and I was, and back then I was in hospice.

Speaker 2
And so really that first part, you know, the first beginning of COVID, obviously we saw an uptick in cases because people were unfortunately passing away. But then that year or two after, it was even worse that we had people with dementia that were coming from home that were incredibly declined. And people were like, I can’t believe how fast they declined.

Speaker 2
Also like chronic diseases, you know, COPD, CHF, cancer even. Like you see these diseases where people didn’t even know they had cancer. I had this one, oh my gosh, it was horrible, this one couple, and she fell on the ice.

Speaker 2
And he took her to the doctor, found out she had cancer, and she passed away within a month. And he had to call, and he loved his wife. And I know that sounds crazy, but he loved her.

Speaker 2
And just he said, you know what, Siobhan, the worst part of it, I just don’t have enough time to process. It’s not like we knew she had it for a while. And she didn’t know because she wasn’t going to the doctor because I think older adults had that fear of going to the doctor.

Speaker 2
They were doing the telehealth, which we all did the best we could during that time. I’m not criticizing anything that was done, but we see what isolation does and lack of socialization does to people.

Speaker 1
Why do you think it’s important that maybe a person even has a roommate, let’s say, to help pass the time when it’s not 12 noon in the day room or lunch. But even somebody to, you know, read with or even if you’re reading separate books, but you’ve got, you know, hey, you know what? Let me grab.

Speaker 1
You want something to drink? I’m going to the refrigerator, to the kitchen. Or just someone to talk to you.

Speaker 2
Yeah. There’s so many advantages. And that’s why, Bill, you know, our director and I, we came up with kind of a cool program.

Speaker 2
It’s called The 200s at the Heights. This is a program we have and it’s limited. So we only have six companion suites that we have that are available.

Speaker 2
And we’re really excited about it. We’ve already started to take applications on it. And the reason why we developed this program for many different reasons, and one of them is exactly like you said, so that the people can have companionship, so they can have a roommate.

Speaker 2
First of all, a really silly one. It’s fun, right? I mean, you remember back in college and I have a roommate.

Speaker 1
I went home at college. I didn’t live on campus.

Speaker 2
But I had roommates. And actually, even as I was older, unfortunately, you know, got divorced, became a single mom. I had another friend of mine, single mom.

Speaker 2
She came to live with me. And we were laughing about just how ridiculous we were. I mean, she’s from a different culture.

Speaker 2
And I remember coming home one day and she has my son, who was six, cooking pancakes for her son, who was three. And it was a snow day. So we were babysitting two other kids and she’s upstairs sleeping.

Speaker 2
And I came in the house, a different culture. You know, it’s a different culture. So when kids are young, they have more independence.

Speaker 2
I came home. My son is on a stool in front of the gas stove. The kids were all, everything was fine.

Speaker 2
Let me just say this. Everything was fine. They were eating their pancakes. Pancakes were delicious. He wasn’t burning them. He’s an awesome cook now. So she sparked something. But we were just laughing about my face. And when I went into her room, I’m like, dude, what is going on downstairs? But again, I mean, we have those memories. And now she’s about to get her master’s degree. She just got her degree in social work and to just see her flourish to who she is.

Speaker 2
So having a roommate, you have memories, you have fun, you know, and even when silly things happen and you support each other. You do. Her and I have supported each other.

Speaker 2
And in a senior living community, it helps. It’s like instant socialization. It’s instant lack of isolation.

Speaker 2
And especially during this world, unfortunately, where there’s COVID out there, you know, any senior living community, you know, you could probably go across Connecticut and call us and say, hey, have you had COVID in the building this winter? And we all have. Right.

Speaker 2
So we’ve got to go down to that what we call semi-shutdown now. It’s not crazy like it used to be, but you do have to do some sense of a shutdown. And now you have a roommate.

Speaker 2
Now you have someone you can be shut down with. You can kind of communicate with and have fun with and complain about the fact that you’re shut down. I mean, it’s good.

Speaker 1
I hope you don’t mind this next question, but I have to ask because since we’re talking about roommates.

Speaker 2
Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 1
Well, does it defray the cost? Is it cost effective?

Speaker 2
It’s very cost effective. And I didn’t put that at the top of the list because I think there are other benefits beyond that. But absolutely, definitely.

Speaker 2
Assisted living, hey, it’s expensive. I mean, it’s normally private pay. I mean, there’s our veterans benefits, and we’re going to be talking about in a nice series about ways to pay for it.

Speaker 2
But at the end of the day, we’ve talked about this. That middle class person like me, like you, it’s going to be tough. Unless you have lots of money or a little bit of money, if you’re in here in the middle, you have to figure out a way to pay for that.

Speaker 1
And that’s where most people are.

Speaker 2
And that’s where most people are. So this is a great program. And this includes the rent, includes meals, includes housekeeping, and includes care, which is nice.

Speaker 2
So like showers, AM care, PM care. It’s going to include, like I said, three meals a day. Also med management.

Speaker 2
So different basics that when you first kind of come into the assisted living world you need is part of this package. And that’s what really makes it very cost effective because you don’t have the rent and the care. It includes that.

Speaker 2
And so it makes it really nice.

Speaker 1
Do you find that roommates look out for each other, that they actually care for one another? Yeah.

Speaker 2
And there’s a certain, you know, especially, you know, females, we tend to have the mothering in us. And it’s one of those things. And it’s neat.

Speaker 2
And there’s always that one that becomes the mother and one that, you know, becomes the person that’s taken care of. We make healthier choices when we have our roommates. It’s their safety involved.

Speaker 2
It’s their safety. Maybe not having your kid cook at six years old pancakes, but it turned out to be a great thing. My son is an awesome cook.

Speaker 2
He cooks at Christmas. He cooks at Thanksgiving. So we learn different things.

Speaker 2
Like for me, I learned a different culture. Maybe I shouldn’t be babying my son so much. All right.

Speaker 1
So let me just ask you then. Tips. What would you – if somebody were to ask you, my goodness, give me some recommendations for a roommate.

Speaker 1
You can’t just throw any random person in with somebody and expect miracles. Look, generally speaking, you’ll probably – I don’t want to harp on the negative. I don’t want to harp on mixing two people who just have nothing in common and don’t get along.

Speaker 1
Right. But you don’t also – we have to address it because you want to make sure that that doesn’t occur.

Speaker 2
Exactly. And so there will be fail-saves for that. We do have our social worker, and she’s always mediating anyway, even with our traditional resident.

Speaker 2
So that will be in place. And we’re going to pair people properly. We do it already in many different areas of our community in the dining room.

Speaker 2
So we’re going to make sure that, hey, we’re going to look at the profile of that person and say, hey, they would be good roommates together.

Speaker 1
Oh, good to hear. That’s what I wanted to hear.

Speaker 2
And there are tips just for – and we’ll have like an orientation that will be special for the roommates. It’s not going to be our traditional. So there are different things you can do.

Speaker 2
I think that it’s important for the old adult. You have to be flexible. It’s one of those things where especially if you’re used to living alone.

Speaker 2
Now you’re living with another person. So you have to be, you have to know exactly like you said, you have to know there’s going to be, you know, some challenges. And so you have to be willing to roll with it and to grow.

Speaker 2
I think that’s really important. And then you have to set, you know, early on, we’ll learn about their boundaries. We’ll learn about, you know, we’ll have rules and regulations so that that that helps a lot when you’re not, you know, even being married, you know, you don’t want to infringe on that person’s boundaries.

Speaker 2
And so that’s going to be important, too. So there’s going to be, orientation-wise, there’s going to be obviously a different flavor than what we normally do for our normal residents that come in.

Speaker 1
You know, I would imagine that the introduction can be exciting, but people speculate. Yeah. You know, it’s like, okay, this person seems nice.

Speaker 1
Yes. Doesn’t mean I want to room with them. Yes.

Speaker 1
But I’ll give it a shot. And like, is there a ramp up time where You’re still kind of feeling each other out, so to speak?

Speaker 2
Well, we’re going to have these people meet ahead of time. So we have our private dining room. So we’ll have them have lunch or breakfast or dinner and spend some time together and chat and really get to know each other before they’re kind of in the roommate situation.

Speaker 2
You know, a lot of people are really excited about it. And the way I want to present it, again, that number five is going to be it’s affordable. Because I don’t want people to make the decision just because it’s affordable.

Speaker 2
Because then it’s got to be – you have to kind of be welcoming to the other benefits of it, the socialization, the fun, the support, living healthier, just having a friend. And especially with dementia and Alzheimer’s, that isolation is just detrimental. And so if you have a roommate and someone that you can go through that journey with, that’s really nice.

Speaker 1
You’re giving me all the answers that I was looking for. You really are. All right. Here’s a scenario though. If –

Speaker 2
Do we have time for that? No.

Speaker 1
I’m just kidding. Got to do a quick billboard in about two minutes, but it gives you enough time to answer this. What if somebody doesn’t get along? In other words, they’ve given it the good old yeoman’s try of a few weeks, a month maybe even, and it just seems like they’re oil and water.

Speaker 2
Yeah. So in that same area of the 200s, we do have one bedrooms as well. And so we’ll have that option to be able to transfer to one bedroom or transfer to a new roommate.

Speaker 2
I mean, colleges do it. People do it. Other senior living communities, actually in the Mass area in Massachusetts, they do it.

Speaker 2
So obviously there’s going to be people that might not get along. But I think if we do this right, I’ve seen it be very successful.

Speaker 1
Folks, you are listening to your next chapter, a production of The Heights at Avery Heights, along with senior living specialist Siobhan Mattingly. I’m Gary Byron. All right.

Speaker 1
So you must have a plethora of success stories and fun stories where you maybe even take some pride in knowing that, hey, it wasn’t for the Heights or even me specifically. Forget about even be friends. They wouldn’t even know each other.

Speaker 1
Yes. But truly, this is friendships, relationships. This can occur.

Speaker 2
Yes. Yeah. So we had these two ladies actually came in at separate times.

Speaker 2
One lived alone. She wanted to be left alone. And she was, you know.

Speaker 2
I know her. Yes. She had a lot of layers to her.

Speaker 2
And I always say it that way. I think it’s from the blind side. Tim McGraw said, peel back the onion.

Speaker 2
You got to peel back the onion. And that’s why I really take that with me. So I see that.

Speaker 2
So I see that whole, and I just go, you know what? There’s something underneath there. There’s a soft, gushy side underneath there.

Speaker 2
And so I got to know her. And luckily, her apartment was right near my office. So I really got to know her very well.

Speaker 2
We got to be friends. And then another lady moved down the hall. Same thing.

Speaker 2
It turned out she was actually in the military. So she was no joke. She was like, you know, she was a tough, tough lady.

Speaker 2
And I remember the first time, because I would take walks with her, and I remember the first time she says, you know, I’m sorry. I’m a little rough sometimes. She goes, you know, I was in the military.

Speaker 2
And she started talking about that’s how she’s used to, like, presenting herself so people would respect her, especially a woman in the military. It’s very challenging. So these two, I like Days of Our Lives.

Speaker 2
these two got together and and i was like oh you like days of our lives she likes it i like hey why don’t you come on down let’s let’s watch this together so the three of us are there in their you know little climbers they’re sitting there they’re watching and i’m in my chair we’re all watching days of our lives well then little by little the other lady i’d be busy obviously working

Speaker 1
you know um can’t be watching days and days of our lives they were like bow and yeah yes they came

Speaker 2
together yeah right they came together and they started being friends and then they started doing all sorts of stuff together they go to music together they go to lunch together and here were these two ladies who, mind you, were still not very nice to many of the other people in the community. But they were nice to me. They loved me. And they were nice to each other. And it was really neat to see, though, them build a friendship. And in a million years, I never would have thought they would come out of their apartments. It was one of those things where you’re like, at least they’re safe. You’re like, well, at least they’re safe. But they became friends. And if you look at Facebook, they’re in most of the pictures at the activities having fun. And so it was nice for them.

Speaker 2
And that’s where we always talk about your next chapter. And it was just neat to see them come to life like that.

Speaker 1
I like to hear that. As long as you’re nice to Victor Karyakis.

Speaker 2
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1
That’s all that matters.

Speaker 2
And Hope and Bo.

Speaker 1
And Hope and Bo.

Speaker 2
I think those people are still on there. Actually, Victor, I think, passed away. Just passed away.

Speaker 2
Yeah, he passed away. Yeah. But it’s amazing how these characters stay on forever, like Young and the Restless, too.

Speaker 2
It’s crazy. With Victor, I can’t believe he’s still on there. The other Victor.

Speaker 2
The other Victor.

Speaker 1
Victor over there, yeah. I’m surprised he even still shows soap opera.

Speaker 2
But you can, I mean, sometimes, you know, if you’re at the doctor, sometimes I’m at the, wherever I am, and it’s happened, Days of Our Lives is on, you can jump right back in and figure out, you can. It’s like, all right.

Speaker 1
Not much has happened over the last year.

Speaker 2
My sister still watches it. She watches it. Yeah.

Speaker 2
We used to watch it when I was younger. And I remember at Central, they used to have, this is back in the day, they used to have rooms for each network. So ABC, NBC, and CBS.

Speaker 2
Wow. And the NBC room was, now you see, you had that too. Don’t like I’m that old.

Speaker 2
What? Nowadays, you have your iPhone and you can watch things whatever you want. But back then, it was exciting.

Speaker 2
One o’clock, we were in that NBC room watching Days of Our Lives. I know.

Speaker 1
I’ve got a mechanic. Listen to this. I have a mechanic who takes, and there’s only two guys there.

Speaker 1
It’s just two men. And they got a heck of a business. But they take their lunch together every day at the same time.

Speaker 2
And what’s Days of Our Lives?

Speaker 1
I don’t know if it’s Days of Our Lives. Or Young and the Restless. Whatever it is. But my point is that it’s a soap opera.

Speaker 2
Yeah.

Speaker 1
And they’re hooked. These are two grown men, mechanics, manly men, and they got to watch their soap. And I’m not kidding.

Speaker 1
Yes. That’s funny. It is.

Speaker 1
It is.

Speaker 2
That’s fun, though. See, it’s fun.

Speaker 1
Living life with a friend is fun. Well, okay. So let’s go there in our remaining few minutes, then.

Speaker 1
Are there expectations and responsibilities that each must endure or take on? Or like I’m talking about household, household, apartment, household chores. It depends.

Speaker 2
I think it’s going to be like with Avery Heights or the Heights, the way we are is every circumstance is individual. So we’re not there’s no cookie cutter. So we’re going to take those two people and for who they are and see what they want to do.

Speaker 2
I think that, you know, there’s going to be the normal type of responsibilities. I mean, dishes have to be washed, different things like that. But a lot of these people will be on assisted living.

Speaker 2
So a lot of that stuff, the aid will do, too, will tidy up, which is nice. So that issue probably won’t be a big thing because if there are a bunch of dishes or a refrigerator be cleaned out, our aides will come in and take care of a lot of that.

Speaker 1
And the beauty is that if you still want your –

Speaker 2
You have your own – You have your whole side. You have your own bedroom. Well, you have your own bedroom.

Speaker 2
You have your own closet space and you have your own bathroom. So you don’t have to share any of that. There’s just a common area where there’s the living room and the kitchen area.

Speaker 2
So you have your own stuff, which is nice because if they didn’t have their own bathroom, that’s kind of rough. I’m glad you said that.

Speaker 1
I didn’t know that.

Speaker 2
Yeah. And they’re literally sides. So the middle is the common area and then the sides are kind of their piece of the world.

Speaker 1
How popular are these units? Let’s hear a scenario. Somebody comes in and they can either live alone, they can have a roommate. What do people gravitate more towards?

Speaker 2
We just kicked this off. But I’m seeing that it’s funny that a lot of people are loving the roommate solution, especially families, because they want their loved one to have a friend. And so families are like, yeah, I keep on saying, well, they can also have a one-bedroom by themselves.

Speaker 2
But tell me more about that roommate thing. So I just had a wonderful woman that’s actually going to be hopefully bringing her father from Florida. And she loves the idea because he’s going to be coming from Florida.

Speaker 2
So who is he going to know? He lived in this area back in the day, like in the Newington area, but now he doesn’t. And so now he’s going to have like an instant friend, which is nice.

Speaker 1
That is nice. Oh, wow. it’s it’s really i’m excited for you what you said you just launched this we just launched it so we

Speaker 2
and we have six six only six apartments that we’re doing how long ago just launched it two weeks ago

Speaker 1
two weeks ago okay so and and how are uh why six do you anticipate more well it’s the 200s because

Speaker 2
it’s in the 200s area so it’s in a certain area we wanted to have it kind of in a certain part of the building that we wanted to try this out okay yeah and then if it works we’ll kind of have well It could be any apartment.

Speaker 1
That’s where I was going to go next. I have a feeling. Not only does it work, I think it’ll be in demand. I actually think it’ll be more popular than six units.

Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we wanted to try it out kind of in a, you know, like a pilot area and then go from there. And I love the name, the 200s, right? It doesn’t sound cool. It sounds like it’s so popular, like Melrose Place, the 200s.

Speaker 1
You missed your calling. You know, you could have been in Hollywood as a developer, creative consultant.

Speaker 2
We’ll have all sorts of drama over there, too. Billy was it Billy I can’t think of her names Jan I can’t remember their names and Melrose Place I never watched that one you never watched that one who was in that the girl who’s married to the rock star is in that that’s every show yeah no the blonde hair I can’t think of her name what’s her name

Speaker 1
no I don’t know was it Mel

Speaker 2
Heather Locklear

Speaker 1
oh Heather Locklear yeah she’s married to a rock somebody Tommy Lee no no oh Richie is that Aerosmith no Bon Jovi Bon Jovi Well, Richie Sambora, the late guitarist. Yes. But they’re no longer…

Speaker 1
Oh, they’re not. Did he die? No, no, no. Oh, he’s not.

Speaker 1
No, no, no. You said the late guitarist. Oh, did I say the late guitarist? You did?

Speaker 1
Oh, I’m sorry. No, no, no. He’s not with the band anymore, though.

Speaker 2
Oh, oh, okay.

Speaker 1
I hope. Maybe one day he’ll rejoin.

Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah. But they’re not together? I didn’t know that.

Speaker 1
No. They haven’t been together in a long time.

Speaker 2
Oh, wow. And Valerie Bertinelli, she’s with Aerosmith. Is that Aerosmith?

Speaker 1
No, she’s with Eddie Van Halen.

Speaker 2
somebody’s with someone in Aerosmith Pamela Andrews oh yes

Speaker 1
no she was with Tommy Lee

Speaker 2
and she’s divorced too right

Speaker 1
oh from Kid Rock

Speaker 2
and that’s husband number five or six I think she’s been married six times yeah who wanted to know who’s married to Aerosmith I don’t know I thought he was in there somewhere or is that a person that’s a band that’s not a person oh no Steven Tyler okay yes Steven Tyler but I think he’s single is he single I don’t know

Speaker 1
I haven’t kept track

Speaker 2
I’m not obviously I’m not a rock and rock person but Heather Locklear

Speaker 1
yes

Speaker 2
hooker oh my gosh that’s like that i think that’s before miller’s place oh this was with with william shatner yes yeah wasn’t she on that show i think so i don’t know okay that’s before my time i was just the wee one just the wee one we go back to the accents just a wee one

Speaker 1
you’re too much all right um i i’ve only got i have less than a minute left I left in less than a minute. So call me. Call me.

Speaker 1
Okay. Come see what we’re talking about. I was right about to go there.

Speaker 1
If someone’s interested in saying, well, you know, I think you’ve piqued my interest. Yeah. Do they have to specifically mention?

Speaker 2
No, because really, we’ll explore all options. Yeah. Because you never know which one is going to hit.

Speaker 2
Yeah. So I actually tell, I take people on a tour. I show them everything.

Speaker 2
And then if this is the way to go, it’s the way to go. All right.

Speaker 1
Good stuff this morning. Actually, I had no idea. I’m so glad we talked about this.

Speaker 2
There’s always something happening at the Heights.

Speaker 1
Right? There you go. That’s the name of the movie. The Heights.

Speaker 2
The Heights.

Speaker 1
Or the TV show.

Speaker 2
And we need a theme song, too.

Speaker 1
Oh, we’ll come up with a theme song.

Speaker 2
Yeah.

Speaker 1
Don’t you worry about that. Folks, you’ve been listening to the latest edition of your next chapter, Senior Living with Siobhan Mattingly. The Heights Senior Living Specialist Avery Heights, by the way, is a beautiful senior living community nestled within 43 acres of nature, right in the heart of the junction between West Hartford, Newington, and Hartford.

Speaker 1
Now, those who live there, they’ve got access to a full continuum of care, including independent and assisted living to memory care and a whole lot more charming cottages with a true neighborhood feel are available to rent adjacent to the main building, where those who need more assistance reside. Please visit AveryHeights.org or by calling 860-953-1201. Again, 860-953-1201 to learn more about their own special brand of community, unlike any other in Connecticut.

Speaker 1
For Siobhan Mattingly, I’m Gary Byron. Thank you so much for listening. Until next weekend, have a good one.

Speaker 1
Come on, everybody.