Dr. DeLon Canterbury Founder of GeriatRx
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome Dr. DeLon Canterbury as a guest to the show.
Dr. DeLon Canterbury is the founder of GeriatRx and is helping to revolutionize the way we look at prescription medications and is educating the public on deprescribing.
GeriatRx is a pharmacist-led medication management company that focuses on helping overwhelmed caregivers stop their loved ones from being overmedicated using genetic-drug screening, deprescribing, and health cost savings strategies. We specialize in developing medication action plans for patients of all ages, but with a specialty in Geriatric care.
Unlike your traditional pharmacist, we develop a three-month strategy to address overmedicated patients using a holistic and evidence-based approach in accordance with your prescriber so that there are no gaps in communication of care. Founder of the Deprescribing Accelerator, DeLon envisions all pharmacists and senior care providers as Deprescribing Advocates and coaches professionals how to integrate, leverage, and monetize Deprescribing into clinical practice!
The Deprescribing Accelerator trains passionate nurses, pharmacists, and prescribers on how they can be serve our overmedicated seniors by increasing your revenue’s practice with referrals and a value-based, sustainable care model within your business.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:24.4 | Hello. Rated Local. Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.8 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking |
| 0:30.3 | time out to be with us today. |
| 0:32.0 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each |
| 0:35.9 | episode here at all home care matters |
| 0:37.8 | something that will hopefully matter to you today we are honored to welcome a remarkable guest |
| 0:43.2 | dr delon canterbury the founder of geriatrics welcome dr delan and how are you today |
| 0:50.1 | i'm doing perfect uh how are you doing it's great game in the life of deprescribing thing. |
| 0:56.3 | Wonderful. We're doing good and we appreciate you taking the time to be with us today. |
| 1:01.0 | I want to start a little with your backstory though. I know I know you left a six-figure job and |
| 1:07.6 | you're always doing these wonderful live events and events on LinkedIn and other locations. |
| 1:13.6 | What got you so passionate and involved with pharmaceuticals and, you know, you're deprescribing? |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah, no, for sure. So for me, I came from the wonderful world of retail pharmacy. Shout out to our community pharmacists |
| 1:30.2 | out there. And, you know, working in Henderson, North Carolina, we had a higher demographic of older |
| 1:37.9 | adults. And I quickly learned that they were the ones that had the most issues with their medications. |
| 1:44.8 | I found there were tons of drug interactions. There were social barriers like transportation, hoot insecurities. |
| 1:50.9 | And at the end of the day, I realized how little I actually knew about geriatric medicine and the |
| 1:59.3 | management of that from a pharmacist lens. |
| 2:01.6 | So after seeing all of these people come to these interactions, these side effects, |
| 2:06.6 | I decided to learn more about senior care. |
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