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Medication means the use of medical terms to define a non-medical problem, the need for a medical intervention in order to present a problem from a medical framework or to “treat” it. As this problem can come to us as a problem that concerns the medical profession, it can also be a situation that does not concern the medical profession. The aim of the study in this direction is to try to reveal the medication of aging, which is often used in health news and the low level of health literature individuals are likely to be misleading and negatively affect their health, by making a summer scan and by presenting the statements in the news. In accordance with this objective in the Sabah, New Dawn, Hürriyet and Nationality newspapers 01.01.2017 - 31.12. Published between the dates of 2017, the health-containing texts that passed the term aging have been analyzed from the theoretical and methodological window offered by the critical speech analysis. In the study, the theoretical sense of consumption culture theory, in addition to the change of understanding of health and the formation of new understanding of health, was also evaluated. The study found that in the internet newspapers, the ageing of health and the natural process of life was medically addressed and the solution was positioned at the individual level, while on the other hand, the readers were encouraged to consume.