First of all, the elderly are in poor physical condition, prone to various diseases and symptoms, and need to rely on drugs for treatment and health maintenance. However, due to the lack of health knowledge or medical and health services, the elderly are often easily deceived and buy some unapproved, ineffective or counterfeit drugs.
Secondly, the elderly generally lack internet awareness, and it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity of drugs sold online. In the Internet age, counterfeit drug dealers sell counterfeit drugs to the elderly by obtaining health consultation and providing drug purchase services for the elderly.
In order to prevent the elderly from being cheated, we can take precautions from the following aspects:
1. Strengthen the health knowledge of the elderly, improve their health literacy, and let them know which diseases need medical treatment, which drugs are guaranteed and which drugs are harmful to their health.
2. Encourage the elderly to seek help from regular medical institutions, consult professional doctors and buy regular medicines to avoid being deceived.
3. Strengthen the family's care for the elderly, conduct regular supervision and care, and find out whether the elderly are cheated in time.
4. Improve the Internet security literacy of the elderly, teach the elderly how to prevent telecom fraud and online fraud, and don't believe and spread rumors.
Finally, we call on the government to strengthen the crackdown on counterfeit drug dealers, create a strict supervision system, and establish a perfect complaint reporting mechanism to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the elderly.