Infectious diseases in population over 65 years is a serious public health concern. The knowledge of infections in the elderly is based on clinical experience. Factors that may affect this increased predilection or poorer prognosis include environmental exposure, normal physiological changes of ageing, coexistence of chronic diseases and alteration of host defence mechanisms.
Elderly persons are prone to more frequent or greater morbidity and higher mortality from selected infectious diseases than the average population. The increased risk of infections observed with ageing may be due to physiologic changes that accompany normal ageing or the age-associated chronic diseases and the medical, surgical, and diagnostic interventions that accompany them. Infectious diseases in geriatric patients Bacterial Pneumonia Pneumonia and influenza are witnessed in about more than 60% of the affected…
