Introduction Working with older adults often means trusting that medical decisions are being made with caution and with their well-being at the highest priority. Rather than focusing solely on healing, medication is frequently used to manage side-effects, behaviors,...

The quote that surprised me the most from the readings was, “A lot of Americans have dementia: 5.3 million in 2015, which is more than four and a half more people than have AIDS - and some estimates suggest that only about half the people with dementia has been...

After reading both texts, the fact about medication and older adults that surprised me the most was the amount of medication being prescribed to the patients despite knowing or ignoring the harm that is and/or can be caused by it or as Aronson (2019) calls it,...

One of the things that surprised me the most from these readings was how automatic it has become to turn to medication as the “answer” for older adults. Cruikshank (2013) points out that so many drugs are given not because they are the best treatment but because aging...

    Something that was surprising to me was that a good percentage of people are prescribed certain medications especially for older adults. This is easy to assume since many older adults take multiple daily medications for illnesses but yet It's still surprising to...

After reading Cruikshank’s article, it became clear to me that older adults are automatically pushed or pressured into medication. I would think that doctor’s would push for other options, especially when considering something such as age. However, this doesn’t seem...

One fact that mostly surprised me from Cruikshank's Chapter 4 in "Overmedicating Old Americans" is the statistic indicating that older adults in the United States are often prescribed multiple medications, sometimes referred to as "polypharmacy." The idea that many...

1. Surprises About Medication and Older Adults: One surprising aspect regarding the medicalization of aging is the extent to which pharmaceuticals are prescribed as the primary solution for various age-related issues. Many older adults face polypharmacy, where they...