significant ramifications for the overall health of seniors. Firstly, seniors tend to turn to their doctors as their primary source of medical information. Secondly, they have, in general, resisted turning to the Internet for their primary medical information seeking needs. These two characteristics are significant due to changing trends in medicine. With HMO’s and hospitals demanding that doctors see a certain number of patients each day, the average amount of time a doctor spends with her patient is fifteen minutes (Belzer 1999, .). Fifteen minutes may not provide enough time for seniors to garner the information necessary to make critical.
