If you have been watching the presidential debates you are aware of the issue regarding prescription drug benefits for seniors. Both parties want more drugs but is that what is really needed to improve the health of the elderly?
More drugs for the elderly, better access to those drugs, and cheaper drug prices. What about the risks involved in taking those drugs? Will prescription drug error soon be the 2nd leading cause of death in the United States?
From Yahoo News comes the headline “Elderly Often Given Inappropriate Mental Health Meds.”
According to the article, psychotropic prescription drugs are being inappropriately prescribed to millions of Americans. Elderly patients are “being given prescriptions that can seriously aggravate pre-existing conditions,” stated researchers in the article.
Also noted in the article was that the misuse of prescription medications, “may compromise a patient’s overall quality of life.”
The article points out that there are “alternatives to these inappropriate medications” although the plan is usually just to substitute the drug in question with another medication. How long before that prescription begins compromising your health?
Isn’t the goal to optimize health care for the elderly? Don’t we want to improve the overall quality of life? Let’s not distort this life experience with useless and dangerous drugs.
How many times a day do you find yourself explaining to someone that their “symptom” is probably a result of some drug they are taking. When you take the time to properly educate them, what do many of them do? They get off the drug. And what happens then? The symptom goes away.
With the chiropractic care you deliver and the education you provide, the people in your community can begin to live a happier and more healthful life free from drugs and the dangerous side effects of those drugs.
Yahoo News: Elderly Often Given Inappropriate Mental Health Meds
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