Health Management for Older Adults III - Controlling Infectious Disease -- Symptoms

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These symptoms do not necessarily indicate a particular site of infection but represent disturbed physiology which occurs in the elderly with the lack of any compensatory mechanisms that one may normally see in a healthy population.

With regards to the problem of multi-resistant bacterial infections in the elderly, this population is seeing an extension of problems that we encounter within the hospital situation.