What surprised me most about the readings was that people over 65 make up 13% of the population but consume 34% of all prescription medications with 40% of people 65 and older taking at least 5 medications daily. I knew that pharmaceutical companies heavily profited...
One thing that really surprised me from Cruikshank (2013) and Aronson (2017) is how quickly older adults are put on medications, often without looking at other options. I always assumed doctors carefully weighed the risks, but it turns out cultural ideas about aging...
Reading Cruikshank opened my eyes to how much older adults rely on medications and how normalized overmedication has become. Many of her statistics weren’t shocking individually: elders make up less than 15% of the population but take more than 30% of prescriptions,...
