For plenty of people, the flu is mostly just a nuisance. But that is not the case for older adults.
“Even though people over 60 are less than 20 percent of the population, they account for over 80 percent of the serious complications of influenza,” says William Schaffner, M.D., medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “So what you do when you get the flu turns out to be very important for this age group.”
The same goes for what you don’t do. To learn about eight ways to hasten your recovery from the flu, from AARP, CLICK HERE.
