The thing that shocked me the most about Cruikshank’s talk was how closely society associates health issues with age. I had never given any thought to how much the medical system and how older people are portrayed may shape our perceptions of aging. According to...
What surprised me the most about Cruikshank’s discussion was how much American culture can contribute to the overmedication of older adults. I was especially interested in the “more is better” mentality and how that can carry over into health care. In American...
What surprised me the most about Cruikshank’s (2013) Chapter 4 was that older adults are more likely to develop a medical condition where blood sugar levels drop below a healthy range as a result of drug usage. This surprised me because medication is often viewed as...
Unfortunately, I am not very surprised by what Cruikshank (2013) discussed in Chapter 4 on overmedicalization. Many aging adults are treated as though every ailment needs to be corrected, when honestly, I do not think that is true. And often many of these ailments are...
Cruikshank’s discussion of the overmedicalization of aging reveals how deeply structural forces shape what we believe aging should look like. What stood out most was her argument that aging has been framed as a medical problem not because older adults are inherently...
