Pharmacists: The Best Kept Secret

Dr. DeLon Canterbury shares his caregiving story of how he and his family cared for his grandmother and how, when her mild dementia symptoms intensified, they needed to facilitate her move from her care home to where they lived. It turned out the changes in her symptoms and behaviours were due to a medication she had been given that had an F.D.A. warning to avoid being given to patients with dementia. And it was a pharmacist who identified this. This is just one example of the work pharmacists do to support caregivers and why they are, as DeLon states, the best kept secret for caregivers.

He shares what he does now through his company: GeriatRx which 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. The company specializes in developing medication action plans for patients of all ages, but with a specialty in Geriatric care. Unlike your traditional pharmacist, they 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.

DeLon, as the founder of the Deprescribing Accelerator, 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. 

On Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn: GeriatRx and the website is GeriatRx Senior Care Consulting

As you listen to this episode you'll hear several aspects that contribute to making Pharmacists the best kept secret in the world of caregiving, such as helping the patient find cost savings; navigating the health care system; reducing harm; and providing advocacy.