“For me, I am a woman, and I am a senior (50+), I wonder which type is better…”
Here’s my major issue with this thread - 50+ does not = senior!!! 
I do take a multi-vitamin–Centrum for Senior Women (or whatever it’s called…)–because I don’t always eat what I should…I figure it’s a small investment to get the nutrients I’d otherwise miss. I think of it as ‘insurance’… Worst case: it’s unnecessary and I flush it down the toilet
@abasket, you are so right! 50+ does not equal senior! We can’t qualify for medicare until 65!! But most of the multivitamins that are for seniors has “50+” on their labels!!!
For our township senior center, 55 is eligible to join its programs, my girlfriend’s township has a 60 year old requirement. I am 59, when I first stopped in the senior center in mid February to inquire about the different exercise programs, the lady there politely said to me: “oh, you have to be 55 to join!”, boy did that make me feel good!
@MomofWildChild, how much Vitamin D do you take? Recommendations from varies sources differ so much, and taking too much is not a good thing either from what I read. My primary doctor recommends 1,000 IU daily.
Well, my dad is 93 and still active. He attributes it to all the vitamins he takes. He needs them now since he doesn’t eat as well as he should (unless I’m visiting and cooking the dinner!) He can’t swallow well so lets them dissolve in a glass with a tiny bit of coke over night. Like drinking sludge in my opinion. But he has tons of energy and keeps truckin’ along so I won’t argue the point. Good genes too.
I really do like those gummy vitamins. I think they make a calcium pill that is like a mint now. I’ve started taking vitamins again because of them. Can’t swallow horse pills.
I don’t care how much researchers say the case is closed about vitamin use. I don’t think it ever will be. Research is always done on young healthy adults who are the least likely to benefit. I remember the controversy from 30 years ago and the research then said that while most people do not need them if eating well that they did appear to benefit most people. Mega doses were shown to boost athletic performance which went against the general theory that your body couldn’t retain them.
Now I won’t be surprised if nobody studies it ever again–unless there is a lot of money in it–maybe that’s why the case is closed.
My dad is 91 and still quite healthy. He doesn’t take vitamins. I guess everyone is different. I’m on the fence about vitamins and take them when I remember, which isn’t all that often.
Maybe they need to rename the vitamin categories.
Rug rats, teens and young adults, 30-50 (with a stress relief component) , " young at heart but feeling old",
and “lucky to be alive”.
I think the rationale is that menopause typically happens to women at 50 or just a little bit after that. And the multivitamin formulation that’s right for a premenopausal woman is not right for a woman who’s past menopause.
Frame of mind: don’t rely on the little effort of a vitamin/pill to remedy what you can change by looking at your own lifestyle in terms of nutrition - which will likely better your health many fold. If it’s as easy to pop in a bag of chips as it is to pop in a multivitamin than it’s time for a change of mind!!!
Am I the only one who looks forward to the daily gummy vitamins (in my case Vitamin D)? They’re pretty tasty. 
It is very hard to get enough Vitamin D in particular through food sources, though. And those of us in the northern climates have a hard time getting Vitamin D through sunlight exposure.
I think I take 2000.