Problems associated with drug therapy in senior citizens.

In class, we will be discussing how different population groups respond to drugs.  In this article, the impact of over medicating senior citizens with dementia is described http://www.scpr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/09/17271/advanced-dementia-patients-often-prescribed-unnece/.  This second article reports on use of drugs in pilots (many who are older) who were involved in fatal crashes http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/us/pilot-drug-use-plane-crashes.html