The Covid-19 epidemic has highlighted the vulnerability of the elderly to infections. With age, in fact, the immune defense decreases. it is immunosenescence, which can be compounded by other factors (malnutrition, chronic disease, dementia, invasive care, immunosuppressive treatment, institutional living) that make infectious diseases more frequent, more severe, and sometimes fatal.
Fortunately, there are effective vaccines to prevent or mitigate most of these diseases in the elderly. But despite annually updated recommendations, vaccination coverage, which is inadequate against Covid-19 and seasonal flu, also remains poor against pneumococcal disease and unique disease. As for vaccination against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), it is not yet recommended for adults in France. Such gaps allow an increasingly heavy medical and economic burden to develop in an aging population…
Source: Le Figaro
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