Health Maintenance Guidelines Age 50 to 74

Annual Wellness Check
Regular visits to your doctor for preventive care and routine screening tests may help detect and prevent diseases. A checkup with your doctor is also a good time to get a flu shot or other vaccinations and to address any changes in your health.

Blood Pressure
Check annually.

Cholesterol
Check every five years.

Obesity
Monitor periodically throughout adulthood.

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening
For ages 65 to 75.

Colon Cancer Screening
Preferred Options: A colonoscopy every 10 years, a stool Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) every year or a sigmoidoscopy every 10 years with annual FIT testing.
Other Options: A CT colonography every five years or a FIT/DNA test every three years.

Diabetes
Screen every 3 years if overweight.

Hepatitis C
Check once between ages 18 to 79.

HIV
Check between ages 15 to 65.

Lung Cancer Screening
Annually for adults age 50-80 years old who have a 20 pack-year smoking history AND currently smoke or have quit in the last 15 years.

Prostate Cancer Screening
For men ages 55 to 69.

Hepatitis B
All adults ages 19-59 years and age 60 years or older with risk factors for HBV should receive 2, 3, or 4 doses of Hepatitis B vaccine depending on vaccine or condition.

Influenza (Flu)
Yearly flu vaccine.

MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella)
Adults ages 50 to 59 should have recorded in their chart at least one dose of the vaccine.

Pneumococcal
For age 65 or ages 50-64 with certain underlying medical conditions, complete vaccine series with Pneumococcal 20 only or Pneumococcal-15 and Pneumococcal 23.

Shingles
Adults age 50 and older should receive a two-dose vaccine series.

Tdap/Td (Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis/Tetanus and Diphtheria)
Tdap or Td booster every 10 years.

Breast Cancer Screening
Mammography every two years.

Bone Density Screening
Check starting at age 65.

Cervical Cancer Screening
Pap test every three years or high risk HPV screening with or without a Pap test every five years until age 65.