Twentyto thirty percent of older adults take more than four medications, whereas nursing homesenior residents take more than eight drugs per day [ 15]. Moreover, polypharmacy wasobserved to have a significant association with physical function, nutrition, and depressionin the elderly [16,17].
This shows that polypharmacy is a big problem in older adults and the negative effects it can have.
A total of 1915 adults (93.4%) ages 50 to 80 years reported regularly experiencing at least 1 of 10forms of everyday ageism (Figure 1). Internalized ageism was the most commonly endorsed category(1664 adults [81.2%]), followed by exposure to ageist messages (1394 adults [65.2%]) and ageismin interpersonal interactions (941 adults [44.9%]).
This small paragraph stood out to me because of the high statistical number of older adult who experience agism. This shows that agism is happening much more than we realize and not in good ways. The most common form is internalized which means that older people are even thinking of this of themselves.