Vaccinations for Older Adults
Over 65? Vaccines are especially important for you.
As you get older, your immune system weakens and it can be more difficult to fight off infections.
You're more likely to get diseases like
- the flu,
- pneumonia,
- shingles
- and to have complications that can lead to long-term illness, hospitalization, and even death.
Over lunch at the College of Physicians, Dr. Heather Clauss will review current vaccine guidelines and recommendations, with a focus on older adults' needs and plenty of time for Q&A.
Dr. Clauss has been on faculty at Temple University since 2008, serving as the Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases and the ID Fellowship Program Director.
There will be a FitC table so you can join other FitC members. Enter "FitC" as to the where you found out about this event, and there will be a place for you.
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This is the fourth of a lunch series co-sponsored by Eastern Pennsylvania Geriatrics Society, Friends in the
City, Penn's Village, Ralston Center, and The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Future lunch series will be held on the second Wednesday of each month. To learn more about them (and to register now if you want to), please click here.
Next lunch:
Questions? Please email Mignon Adams, mignon.adams@gmail.com |
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