THIS HAS GOT TO STOP!!

What would happen to your body if you were put on 48 different medications? This is the average number of medications a person takes in an assisted living home in the United States. Hal Cranmer, owner of A Paradise for Parents, and Claud Covaci, CEO of Synkwise, weigh in on the true cost of healthca

it was funny cuz like our CTO sergy like sent me a message on slack and he’s like uh Claude oh my God and he’s a very highly introverted individual doesn’t get very emotional hardly ever um so for him to say that I’m like okay he came across something pretty interesting and and he showed me you know he’s like my God you got someone that is getting 91 medications and then you’ve got a bunch of them in the 60s and the 50s and overall on average I think the number we came up with an average of 48 wow this has got to stop what’s happening in a living homes and the number of medications that these patients are on is just mind-blowing to explain this I’m going to interview right now the CEO of a company that sells software to manage the medications involved in patients in assisted living homes as we got a sampling of of a 100 residents it was pretty astonishing what we saw and it was funny because like our CTO sergy like sent me a message on slack and he’s like Claude oh my God and he’s a very high introverted individual doesn’t get very emotional hardly ever um so for him to say that I’m like okay he came across something pretty interesting and he showed me you know he’s like my God you got someone that is getting 91 medications and then you’ve got a bunch of them in the 60s and the 50s and overall on average I think the number we came up with an average of 48 yeah when I heard that I literally fell off my chair because see I was under the illusion that maybe six at the very most 10 but 48 medications that’s the average and there was someone that had 91 medications correct correct oh my gosh Eric imagine the caregiver that has to manage 91 medications every day or maybe every other day some are given Monday Wednesday Friday something like that but just trying to keep track of those along with probably taking care if it’s a large facility you know maybe 5 10 15 other people as well incredibly incredibly it’s just mind-blowing what’s happening you evaluated halil’s uh centers and what did you find with his numbers as far as medications once they get on his program I’m sure it’s a little bit less than 48 it definitely brought a smile to my face because typically kind of being within this industry as well because I used to own three locations as well there’s usually one Trend and that Trend goes upwards in terms of prescribed orders it doesn’t drop so looking at at how’s data it it really was just like a breath of fresh air you know in October 2023 um his resident had a total of 47 uh prescribed medications as of July 2024 dropped down to 25 that’s a 47% decrease and that’s something that is just you don’t see I was pretty excited writing out this emot um because this is this kind of stuff that you just um this is what you want to see right and it’s encouraging this is really exciting and and what’s unique about halil’s facilities is that he focuses more on diet and he actually gives people real food and he doesn’t feed them what traditionally is fed which is institutional Foods alra processed foods is there any special diets going on is there anything any emphasis on diet uh in these homes generally there’s not a low carb diet or we need to keep sugar away from them or anything like that it’s very medically focused for a particular condition not an overall health diet is ever described we’ve never seen anything with regards to low carp or having an emphasis on maybe okay you are you’re at this stage right now let’s try to get you away from that and get you towards a a better a better healthier stance whether it’s weight loss or just maybe getting offl of meds you don’t see that it’s it’s a track box and make sure you have it completed and that’s about it in these assisted living home uh centers they’re they’re dealing with I would say dementia is like one of the top things is that correct by far I saw statistic that 42% of all residents in assisted living in the United States have dementia if we just look at the cost of care with dementia it’s a bit expensive on an average person right I mean taxpayers plus the out of pocket for the family have to spend a lot of money is that true for for the lifetime of dementia care I’ve seen figures between 800,000 and a million and a half per person incredible consider all expenses incredible and it’s only getting higher as well does any of those uh family members ever get to go home because they no longer need hospice we’ve had nine people actually move back home wow um dementia is a more challenging condition and one that really needs effective treatment or prevention early on as you probably know Eric the dementia starts in your 30s and 40s it’s not just suddenly hits you in your 60s or 70s um so if you wait a really long time it’s going to be hard to reverse the the brain heals slower than the body but you do see memory improvement even in the people we don’t send home we see improved uh scores on the mocha and slums test wow I would imagine the diet for people in assisted living is the exact same thing in nursing homes as well as in hospitals I would agree as well as our Public Schools I think and our prisons um it stems from the FDA food guidelines in fact that’s what they use as Guidance with the CDC and with our Arizona Department of Health so the the trick is we need to change the guidelines at the source and you’ll see it proliferate out I think throughout the whole of society well I saw a recent comment by the committee members that were on the dietary guideline they basically their stances there is no hard evidence or strong evidence to show that alter processed foods contribute to someone’s Health in one way or another my thought is do we need an experiment to even do on that can’t we just look outside and see what people eat and just look at what they look like I mean do we we’ve been doing an experiment for the last 50 years the food guidelines have been in in place since the 1970s and and just look at the health of the country since the 1970s I don’t know what bigger contributing factor to your health can be than what you put in your mouth the system of medicine is medicine it’s not food it’s not natural things it’s completely disconnected and because of that this whole thing is held together these medications are treating the side effects from the junk food then there creating more side effects that then are treated by more medication I mean this is like a paradigm that needs to be changed and so I think looking at root causes which is Lifestyle Changes which at the core of it is your diet needs to be brought up and we need to educate people because um somehow uh it got corrupted well a doctor’s never going to get sued for not recommending a diet if a doctor removes you from statins and you have a heart attack he’s opening himself up for liability if you are on Statin and you have a heart attack he can say well I was following the standard of care all the incentives are lining up to move away from eating right deprescribing medications things like that Claude has a phenomenal piece of software it’s wonderful for running my assisted living homes and it does everything the Department of Health requires us to do to remain in compliance with all their rules and regulations but like he said he didn’t put anything in the software to encourage a healthy or good diet because he was looking at what the rules and regulations were and there’s nothing in there about that everything that we develop and we we produce it’s based on Demand right what is requested the most and and this should be at the top of the list right we should be promoting more and more health and wellness um so honestly I