Health Maintenance Guidelines: 75+

Your provider will check your blood pressure, screen for healthy weight and assess your overall health. 

• Blood pressure: Your doctor will check your blood pressure annually
• Hepatitis C: Checked once between ages 18 to 79
• Obesity: Monitored periodically throughout adulthood

• Lung cancer: Adults age 50 to 80 who have a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have quit in the last 15 years should be screened annually

• COVID-19: All eligible ages should receive the recommended vaccine dose and schedule per CDC guidelines
• Diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (Tdap or Td): Adults should receive a Td or Tdap booster every 10 years 
• Hepatitis B: All adults age 60+ with risk factors for HBV should receive two, three or four doses of Hepatitis B vaccine depending on vaccine or condition
• Influenza (Flu): Yearly vaccine
• Pneumococcal: Complete vaccine series with PCV20 only, PCV21 only, or PCV15 and PPSV23.
• Shingles: All adults age 50+ should receive a two-dose vaccine series
• Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV): Age 60 to 74 with certain underlying medical conditions should receive a single dose of RSV vaccine.

• Alcohol use
• Depression 
• Domestic violence 
• Preventing falls
• Sexually transmitted infections  
• Skin cancer  
• Tobacco use including vaping
• Unhealthy drug use  

• Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening: Males ages 65 to 75 who have ever smoked should be checked once
• Breast Cancer Screening: Age 75+
• Colon Cancer Screening: Ages 76 to 85