Health Management for Older Adults III - Controlling Infectious Disease -- Sites of Infection

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Patients may also have uncommon sites of infections which one needs to be aware of because the presentations of these infections are not particularly distinct.

For example, an elderly patient may have central nervous system infection and the manifestations of a central nervous system infection in this patient population--that is a diminution of consciousness or change in the level of consciousness--would not be that different from the other infections.

An elderly patient with a central nervous system infection may not even manifest the typical stiff neck that one associates with bacterial meningitis.