Exercise offers significant health benefits to older people, but may also carry risks of injury and cardiovascular events.
A wrist fracture is associated with an increased risk of another fracture and should prompt investigation for osteoporosis in both men and women.
Accumulated research evidence suggests that vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency has profound implications for health and well-being, compromising immune responses and increasing the risk for osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, depression, cancer, and cardiovascular disease.
The use of opioid medications and converting among them in the older adult population can often be challenging.
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Sexual desire and activity continue well into later life, and advanced age alone is not a deterrent to a happy and healthy sex life; however, clinicians should be aware that the normal sexual response of men and women may change with aging.
MD, FRCPC, FACP, AGSF
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