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Health Maintenance Guidelines Age 75 and Older

Screening guidelines often change after age 75. If you’re in that age group, learn which screenings are recommended — and which ones may be optional.

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Wellness Check

Check blood pressure, screen for healthy weight and assess overall health. 

Screening Tests

Hepatitis C: Check once between ages 18 to 79.


Obesity: Monitor periodically throughout adulthood.


Lung Cancer: Screen 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.


Blood Pressure: Check annually

Immunizations

COVID: All eligible ages should receive the recommended vaccine dose and schedule per CDC guidelines.


Influenza (Flu): Yearly flu vaccine.


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

 

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


Shingles: All adults age 50 and older should receive a two-dose vaccine series. 

 

Pneumococcal: Complete vaccine series with Pneumococcal-15 and Pneumococcal-23 or Pneumococcal-20 only.

Counseling and Evaluation Topics

Alcohol Use


Tobacco Use, Including Vaping Electronic Cigarettes


Depression


Domestic Violence


Preventing Falls: Start at age 65.


Unhealthy Drug Use


Sexually Transmitted Infections


Skin Cancer 

Individualized/Patient-Clinician Shared Decisions

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening: Men ages 65 to 75.

Colon Cancer Screening: Ages 76 to 85.

Breast Cancer Screening: Age 75+. 

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