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Australian Society for Geriatric Medicine Position Statement No. 7
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
australasian journal on ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-6612
pISSN - 1440-6381
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-6612.1998.tb00073.x
Subject(s) - medicine , older people , position statement , geriatrics , incidence (geometry) , healthy aging , gerontology , intensive care medicine , family medicine , psychiatry , physics , optics
Compared with younger people, older people have a greater incidence of most infectious diseases, and often respond less well to treatment. Thus prevention of infections is particularly important, and immunisation has been shown to be effective for several infectious diseases. There is, however, evidence of under‐utilisation of effective vaccines in all age groups, but particularly in older people. With several vaccines, little evidence exists for age‐specific efficacy. With this as a background, the ASGM recommends the following: