Fox 8’s New Day Cleveland Features Lantern Lifestyle CEO Jean Makesh

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Fox 8 interviewed Lantern Lifestyle’s very own CEO, Jean Makesh

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Fox 8 interviewed Lantern Lifestyle’s very own CEO, Jean Makesh, in their show New Day Cleveland last October 1, 2021. The topic revolved primarily around aging and Jean’s own vision for the future of Lantern Lifestyle and assisted living in general. 

The show’s host, David Moss, started with the query of what the nature of aging is and how it’s rarely a static process. David pointed out that, “different things happen in different decades of your life.” To which Jean replied, in turn, by saying that, “we all start aging the moment we are born.” 

He then quipped that “70 is the new 50”, thereby underlining the fact that aging healthily in these modern times is becoming more viable and achievable. 

This single answer pretty much set up the course of the conversation, which, in essence, is an insightful conversation about the ephemeral state of the concept of aging. The more we are provided with the means to be independent, the more we become “younger” and less reliant on the help of others. 

Jean believes that this does not necessarily take assisted living out of the picture. On the contrary, assisted living facilities and memory care providers can actually play a vital role in helping people make the most out of their lives through healthy aging. 

 

Jean, in particular, took a leaf out of the Lantern playbook when he stated, “what we put in our body, the way we live our lives… that matters a lot.” One of Lantern’s advocacies is helping seniors achieve optimal health through proper nutrition.

He also discussed the Centenarian challenge that he put on all Lantern communities. Essentially, it aims to help people live up to 100 years old and more. Jean envisions multi-generational living as the next milestone in assisted living.

“Green, smart, and multigenerational,” Jean states. “We’re trying to see if we can create, virtually, a capsule so we can simulate that and allow people to live up to a hundred years of age.”

Jean ends the interview by underlining one big reason why people are able to live up to those years: Being able to interact with people they want, regardless of age. 

He pinpoints the limitations caused by today’s assisted living communities that do the opposite of that, particularly how they’re “siloing” people according to their ages. He believes the right course of action is to remove those silos, which will only be beneficial to both generations.