January 10, 1997
Reader Forum
AARP
Editor
Dept. RF
601 E St. NW
Washington, DC 20049
90% of adults over 45 can't read the text on medicine bottles, radios or electronic medical devices. Older people have died, been injured or have been embarrassed by their inability to read 10 point or smaller text. Spouses mistakenly take each others’ medicines. (10 point)
Critical instructions and medical warnings are often written in 8 point type which 95% of seniors can't read. (8 point)
Most adults, over 45, can read 14 point text without glasses. (14 point)
The Federal Government and the states should require all prescriptions, medical devices and electronic devices, paid for by government funds, carry their descriptions, instructions, warnings and patient names, if applicable, in 14 point type.
Thousands of lives of older people would be saved every year.
Clifford Lazar
Los Angeles, CA
This letter was also sent to Congressman Henry Waxman
There should be a class action suit based on the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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