Over-Medicalization In Geriatric Care

Medication overload and older Americans

https://lowninstitute.org/projects/medication-overload-how-the-drive-to-prescribe-is-harming-older-americans/

More than four in ten older adults take five or more prescription medications, triple the rate from twenty years …

The medicalisation of old age | The BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/content/324/7342/861

With the realisation that something could be done for elderly patients and that such care would make hospitals run more efficiently, geriatric medicine has grown …

How to distinguish medicalization from over-medicalization?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29951940/

Neither indiscriminate acceptance of medicalization of subsequent areas of human existence, nor criticizing new medicalization cases just because they are medicalization …

Overmedicating Seniors - Healthline

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/are-we-overmedicating-the-elderly

Medicalization of Aging: The Upside and the …

https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=elders

medical values. Medicalization is defined as a process by which nonmedical problems become defined and treated as medical problems, usually in terms of illness and …

Medicalization and overdiagnosis: different but alike

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26912187/

Medicalization is dealing with sickness (sick role) while overdiagnosis with disease. Despite these differences, medicalization and overdiagnosis are becoming more alike. …

How to avoid overmedicalization of the elderly patient

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328315956_How_to_avoid_overmedicalization_of_the_elderly_patient

Over-medicalization is a broad concept, which also concerns the elderly patient. It encompasses both over-diagnosis and over-treatment. An increasing …

The Over-Medicalization of Aging | As Our Parents Age So Do We

https://asourparentsage.net/2012/02/22/the-over-medicalization-of-aging/

The medicalization of our aging — the tendency of the medical community to always to have a procedure or surgery that purports to solve a problem — potentially …

Over-Medicalization In Geriatric Care | Day of Difference

https://dayofdifference.org.au/o-medical/over-medicalization-in-geriatric-care.html

Over-medicalization is a broad concept, which also concerns the elderly patient. It encompasses both over-diagnosis and over-treatment. An increasing …

Medicalization of Aging - Age, Physiological, Social, …

https://medicine.jrank.org/pages/1106/Medicalization-Aging.html

They explicate the utility of distinguishing between "over-medicalization," which is typically viewed as negative, and "constructive medicalization." A reversal, or process of …