Each of the chapters in Aronson and Cruikshank’s texts was incredibly enlightening. However, I found the statistics in Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging to be the most informative about the systemic issues regarding older adults and overmedication....
The most surprising fact from, “Learning to Be Old”, was how certain medication interactions can cause false diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. This was the most shocking to me because I can only imagine the number of scared older adults coming to a...
While reading the texts by Aronson (2019) and Cruikshank (2013), I was struck by several points. One aspect that particularly surprised me was Cruikshank’s discussion about the number of prescriptions given to older adults, even when the side effects can be harmful to...
. What fact about medication and older adults surprised you the most – from either text? Pleaseelaborate as to why you were surprised. When I think about either texts and what surprised me the most is the factor of how normalized and automatic it is for older adults...
A few years ago, I watched a video of this gentleman stopping older adults on the street and asking them questions. One of those videos, a gentleman was 82 and said he was on no medications, and that shocked me, 82 and no medications?! How was that possible? Reading...
