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Despite the prevalence of prescriptions everywhere in America, elderlies fail to get what they deserve- care for osteoporosis. This is a rather sorry state of affairs since osteoporosis or bone degeneration occurs in almost all aging adults. According to a recent survey a little over 11% of elderlies have received adequate care after being admitted to a nursing home for fractures. Which means about 90% of them still are not given necessary medication despite experts stating the need for medicinal drugs beyond calcium and Vitamin D.

The Brigham and Women’s Hospital had researchers claiming that most nursing homes have female patients who have arthritis and the percentage is as whopping as 80%. This problem is perhaps a peculiarity with the nursing home structure of care giving. This has further been proved by the researchers’ study based on intervening years between 1995 and 2004. While this decade saw a rise in the use of osteoporosis medicine overall, the statistics got worse in case of nursing homes.

Talking of improvement, osteoporosis medication found its place of pride only between the years of 1995 and 2001 after which there was a steady decline. And the situation only seems to be getting worse with each passing day with patients receiving no treatment at all (a revelation made by a new study).

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