{"id":35611,"date":"2022-06-11T17:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T17:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=35611"},"modified":"2022-06-11T17:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T17:55:59","slug":"the-drug-problem-that-nobody-talks-about-overmedication-in-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/06\/11\/the-drug-problem-that-nobody-talks-about-overmedication-in-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"The drug problem that nobody talks about: Overmedication in seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35612\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/overmedication-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/overmedication-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/overmedication-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/overmedication-770x404.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/overmedication-360x189.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/overmedication.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite the benefits of modern medications, excess prescribing is putting millions of older people at grave risk of harm. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/medical\/the-drug-problem-that-nobody-talks-about-overmedication-in-seniors\/ss-AAYchL2?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=4064b9a4318b4859bbf02713145d20dd\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Despite the benefits of modern medications, excess prescribing is putting millions of older people at grave risk of harm. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/overmedication.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35613,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35611\/revisions\/35613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}