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 ...

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.

The prevalence of isotonic and hypotonic dehydration among older adults has never been studied systematically, probably because of the difficulties in diagnosing them correctly. A proper ...

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 ...

RSV season is upon us, which means thousands of children under five years of age and hundreds of thousands of adults will be ...

Over 200 viruses can cause colds, but six are the most common. These include rhinovirus, coronavirus (common cold version), and enterovirus.

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 ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes cold-like symptoms in most people but can cause more serious problems in some, especially babies and older adults. Almost all children get RSV at least once by ...