Nursing Home Patients: High Risk for Flu?
Getting the flu is always a miserable experience, but for the elderly, a case of the flu can be fatal. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , “90 percent of seasonal influenza-related deaths and more than 60 percent of seasonal influenza-related hospitalizations in the United States each year occur in people 65 years and older.” Currently, influenza has hit epidemic proportions in the United States, as