The government knows about it, but a lot of doctors apparently do not. What are we talking about?
That nearly two-thirds of all Americans 50 and older use complementary or alternative medicine therapies. But most of them—77 percent—don’t tell their doctors about it. The data arrives on the Alternative Health Blog’s virtual doorstep from a survey conducted by two big-name organizations, AARP (the org that changed to acronym only because the “retired persons” thing isn’t all that relevant anymore) and the federal National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (the once Office of Alternative Medicine that has expanded into a larger and more influential “center” at the National Institutes for Health).
What makes the results doubly insightful is that Americans at Boomer age and above not only use alternative therapies most frequently compared to other demographic slices, but they stay quiet about it in the highest percentages.
Let’s talk about that, shall we?
