Vaccines in Older Adults

Vaccines in Older Adults

Getting your flu vaccine every fall should be a fairly routine task. And if you haven't been making the immunization a yearly habit, now's a good time to start, especially if you’re 65 or older: Adults in that age range are at increased risk of developing serious complications from the flu, which can result in hospitalization or death.

Also consider adding a one-time dose of pertussis, or whooping cough, vaccine to your list of must-get immunizations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends the vaccine for all adults, including those ages 65 and older, especially those who have close contact with infants. The recommendations protect children from adults who can spread the disease, but pertussis in older adults has serious consequences as well. It can lead to pneumonia and coughing severe enough to fracture ribs.

Following is a rundown of routine vaccines recommended by the CDC for most healthy adults over age 50 unless otherwise indicated. Your doctor may suggest additional immunizations against the measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox or meningitis depending on your history of infection or vaccination. Other immunizations, such as the hepatitis A and B vaccines, are needed only by people who have specific risk factors.

Flu (influenza) vaccine

Who should get it: All adults. If you have an egg allergy or a history of Guillain-Barré syndrome, however, consult with your doctor.

How often: Yearly. Flu strains differ each year, so last season's flu shot will no longer protect you against this year's strain.

When: Every September or as soon as the vaccine is available. However, you can receive the vaccine anytime during flu season, which can run as late as May, and it will still be effective.

Tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (Tdap) vaccine

Who should get it: All adults through age 64, and adults 65 or older who have close contact with infants. Older adults who have no close contact with infants have the option of either Tdap or the tetanus and diphtheria (Td) vaccine.

How often: Once only for the Tdap vaccine and a Td booster dose every 10 years.

When: Anytime.

Pneumonia (pneumococcal) vaccine

Who should get it: Healthy adults 65 and up; younger adults who smoke or have certain risk factors such as diabetes or chronic heart, lung, liver or kidney disorders.

How often: Once at age 65 or older. If you were vaccinated before turning 65, you'll need a second dose if five years or more have elapsed since your first dose.

Words Can Change Your Brain

By Therese Borchard

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can change your brain.

That’s right.

According to Andrew Newberg, M.D. and Mark Robert Waldman, words can literally change your brain. In their book, “Words Can Change Your Brain,” they write: “a single word has the power to influence the expression of genes that regulate physical and emotional stress.” Positive words, like “peace” and “love” can alter the expression of genes, strengthening areas in our front lobes and promoting the cognitive functioning of the brain. They propel the motivational centers of the brain into action, explain the authors, and build resiliency.

Conversely, hostile language can disrupt specific genes that play a key part in the production of neurochemicals that protect us from stress. Humans are hardwired to worry—part of our primalbrains protecting us from threats to our survival—so our thoughts naturally go here first. However, a single negative word can increase the activity in our amygdala (fear center of the brain) and release dozens of stress-producing hormones and neurotransmitters, which in turn interrupt the functioning of our brains, especially with regard to logic, reason, and language. “Angry words send alarm messages through the brain, and they partially shut down the logic-and-reasoning centers located in the frontal lobes,” write Newberg and Waldman.

According to the authors, using the right words can transform our reality:

14-year-old girl under pressure to get breast implants. For his mother.

Following in the footsteps of her mother and older sisters, it is one thing, but what about when it comes to plastic surgery? Chantal Marshall and four of his daughters have had boob jobs thirteen of them, and now professional psychic for 53 years, is pushing his fourteen-year-old daughter to get breast implants as well. Having had four boob jobs of his own, Chantal is now a size 32 GG, Emma, ​​30, is 32GG after three procedures, Terri, 27, is a 34HH after three years, Tara, 26, is 34F after two boob jobs, and Ripley, 21, is a 32DD after another. At 14, Britney is the only woman in the family, no fake boobs, but probably not for long!



Britney is very intelligent and well in school, "said his mother." But she dyed her hair blonde and wears lots of makeup and tanning. It's just a matter of time before they begin saving for new breasts. "According to Chantal, Britney idolizes her older sisters and discussed and get a boob job with her mother, who hopes that follows in the footsteps of her sisters. Apparently, Chantal believes that payment of a plastic surgeon to give false breasts is something to aspire to. "I like the false appearance of my daughters and I know that Britney go in this direction when it is a little older. I like the idea of ​​us all looking as glamorous." Yes, is 53 years , speaks Chantal, whose soft stomach and cottage cheese thighs are perfectly accentuated by her bikini and heels in this family photo disturbing.


Chantal, who has four children, in addition to his five daughters, had her boob job first time in 1996 to determine the number of pregnancies did not take his body. Since then it has been clearly deceived into thinking that getting more boob jobs somehow go back. "When I came to town with the other girls, I often confused with her sister. This is a real laugh." It's a real laugh, especially because it seems at least 100 years older than the rest of them. Although Chantal is the oldest of "the family with the most jobs in Britain boob," Terri is the one with the biggest breasts. Attention to that. It looks like there is a step forward and eat.



Hopefully the poor Britney is indeed the "smart" and decides to give up breast implants as her mother tries to push rave about it. If I were Britney, I'd take a look at my mother and sisters and a plan to do the exact opposite of what I had done. And it seems that Britney feels the same way. When asked by Glamour magazine, Britney said she feels she is too young to think about breast implants and prefers to concentrate on their studies and work hard for it to be the first in his family to attend college. "I just want to work hard in school. In the past, I thought I wanted fake breasts, but sometimes I look and I think the ridiculous. "It seems that 14 years, Britney is already smarter and more mature then her mother and sisters together, not ?