#elderly

People with cancer, heart disease and diabetes are at increased risk for serious illness from COVID-19.

Language barriers, loneliness, difficulty accessing food and medicine, and unfamiliarity with new technology are major issues.

This includes New York inmates who are older, sick, pregnant or have serious respiratory conditions or compromised immune systems.

The first meta-analysis to examine hep C treatment outcomes in seniors versus non-seniors found that cure rates are comparable.

The need to provide and coordinate care for elderly people living with liver cirrhosis is expected to increase in the coming years.