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Chronic Conditions Among Seniors
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| So, let me see. | |
| Sorry, I have to throw in percent here. | |
| It's a crazy percent. | |
| It's a crazy percent. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Here we go. | |
| Here we go. | |
| I found it. | |
| 94.9% of adults age 60 and over have at least one chronic condition. | |
| Right? | |
| So, 19 out of 20 adults age 60 and older have at least one chronic health condition. | |
| And 78.7% have two or more. | |
| Isn't that wild? | |
| 42% of adults 60 and older are obese. | |
| Not overweight. | |
| Obese. | |
| Isn't that wild? | |
| So what do we got? | |
| 10 common chronic conditions for adults 65 plus. | |
| Hypertension, high blood pressure, high cholesterol. | |
| Obesity, arthritis, ischemic coronary heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, heart failure, depression, Alzheimer's disease, and dementia. | |
| Oh my god. | |
| And this is up considerably from the past. | |
| No, it's absolutely, it's crazy how sickly people are. | |
| Now, you know, 70-75% of health issues are lifestyle-related, which means you chose. | |
| You made bad choices and you got sick. | |
| So people are like crazy unwell. | |
| People are crazy unwell. | |
| I mean, there's bone health issues. | |
| There is, of course, the diabetes management. | |
| Diabetes is going to take 15 years off your life, as far as I've read. | |
| It's mad. | |
| Now, I'm 58, so I'm getting there. | |
| I'm getting there. | |
| And, you know, maybe I'll have some issues, but nothing yet. | |
| Nothing yet. | |
| And of course, on average, a 65-year-old can expect to live another 18.9 million years. | |
| Crazy. | |
| 27% of the U.S. adult population has multiple chronic conditions, which cost the American healthcare system over a trillion dollars each year. | |
| It's the usual 90 to 95% of healthcare costs are 5 to 10% of the population and two thirds of your entire lifetime's healthcare costs are in the last couple of months of your life. | |
| I did eight and a half hours of exercise last week because it's really, really important. | |
| In 2022, 36.3% of older adults had not seen a dentist in the last year. | |
| Now, I used to go every three months. | |
| Now, I go every four months. | |
| You just have to take care of your teeth. | |
| One in five adults age 65 plus have untreated dental caries or cavities. | |
| I don't know why they're... | |
| Put that way, one in four older adults have a behavioral health problem such as depression, anxiety, or substance abuse. | |
| People aged 85 plus have the highest rates of suicide compared to any other age group. | |
| In 2020, over 11,000 adults aged 65 plus died from alcohol-induced causes. | |
| Oof. | |
| Oof. | |
| Let me tell you. | |
| People are sick. | |
| Just sick. | |
| And what is it about is only one or two percent of the U.S. healthcare budget is spent on prevention? | |
| Of course! | |
| Of course, because chronic diseases make money. | |
| And so waiting until people get sick and then medicating them forever is by far the most profitable model for the healthcare system as it exists. | |
| By 2060, almost a quarter of the population is going to be 65 or older. | |
| Flu, is it flu or pneumonia that's called the old man's benefit, a benefactor? | |
| It's really something. | |
| Yeah, people are like crazy unwell. | |
| People are just crazy, crazy unwell. | |
| You know, you don't see... | |
| I mean, and of course, when you see really old people, they tend to be very skinny, right? | |
| You don't see old fat people. | |
| Percent of non-institutionalized persons with hypertension measured high blood pressure or taking high blood pressure medication. | |
| This is from 2017 to March 2020. Men aged 65 to 74, almost 72%. | |
| Men aged 75 and older, 83.2%. | |
| Women aged 65 to 74, 73.7%. | |
| Women aged 75 and older, 84.1%. | |
| It's brutal. | |
| And of course, I'm at the age where people's health decisions are really catching up with them. | |
| People's bad health decisions are really, really catching up with them. | |
| Social isolation and loneliness is a big problem. | |
| People who have hearing loss tend to get a little bit more dementia. | |
| People who are isolated and lonely have high risks of dementia, serious health problems, and so on. | |
| About 8 in 10 older adults struggle to use medical documents like forms or charts. | |