title: A bitter pill to swallow.
abstract: If you are old and have your meals prepared for you, beware of the powdery flavour you think you sense in the sandwich filler, the suspicious extra crunch in your breakfast cereal, or the strange alien taste in Sunday lunch. Patients in health and care settings would do well in future to emulate those powerful but paranoid rulers who required a personal taster to take a bite of each course before they ate it. They might otherwise find themselves consuming medicines which they would have chosen to decline; covert medication, alas, is back on the menu.
authors.affiliation: Social policy and older people.
authors.forename: Jef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Smith