In this article, we review the most important age-related risk factors for dehydration because they may help to identify older adults most at risk for dehydration. Next, we summarize recent ...

This highly contagious infection is most common in babies and young children between three months and three years old. It's ...

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Certain groups, such as older adults, may be more at risk ... This article looks at chronic dehydration, including its signs and symptoms, effects, causes, treatments, and prevention.

Norovirus symptoms, warning signs and when you should worry - The bug is linked to thousands of hospital admissions in the UK ...

Some 60,000–160,000 older adults in the United States are hospitalized each year due to RSV infection, and an estimated 6,000–10,000 of them die due to complications of RSV infection. When infected ...

Just like adults under 60, elderly adults who get RSV tend to have mild symptoms, such as runny nose, sore throat, cough, fatigue, headache, and fever. They’ll usually feel better in one to two ...

People with RSV are most contagious during the first week of infection, though the virus can continue to spread up to a month after symptoms ... be used for older children and adults, who tend ...

An estimated 2.4 million of them are 50 and older. “It is increasingly becoming more recognized as a condition that affects adults,” the report’s lead author Brooke S. Staley, told AARP. “Just as ADHD ...

Background: Depressive symptoms are common in older adults. Developing rapid self-report tools is essential to measure the presence and severity of depressive symptoms in older adults. This study ...