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...

1.     What surprised me about overmedicalization is how common and normalized it has become to prescribe multiple medications to older adults. Whenever my mother goes for a checkup, it seems as though she comes home with another prescription to add to the five or...

I was most surprised me the most about Cruikshank's discussion of the overmedicalization of aging was how normal parts of getting older can feel like were getting treated like medical problems. Older adults can have more health concerns as they age, but i was not...

  I found the fact that Americans prefer quick fixes and expect their doctors to prescribe medication rather than changing their lifestyle habits surprising, but it does make sense. Our culture promotes efficiency, and you see it all over, whether it be fast food...

I think the most surprising part of the discussion was when Cruikshank highlighted the relationship between the influence of pharmaceutical companies and the over-prescription of drugs.  While I had an idea of the sway these companies had due to their massive wealth,...