In the video: The panel of experts explain how to maintain a healthy lifestyle in the third age/Editor: Gilad Man Mannheim
What is important to know about medicine in the third age, what important tests should be performed and are there any recommended vaccines that should not be omitted?
Nachi Katz, CEO of KDM, the association for the promotion of housing communities for adults in Israel hosted in the studio Walla!
Professor Galia Rahab, Professor Nadav Davidovitch and Dr. Tili Fisher Yosef, who tried to put these important issues in order.
"When the State of Israel was established, 5% of the population was over the age of 65 and now it is about 11%," said Prof. Davidovitch. -2048 it's going to be 16% - 17%.
Therefore, today we are talking not only about extending life expectancy, which Israel is very good at, but about healthy years of life.
The definition of health by the World Health Organization is ultimately not only the absence of disease, but the well being which is also physical, mental and social."
Dr. Fisher Yosef, an expert in family medicine, added: "We all know the tests Screening for the early detection of malignant diseases, but there are also other screening tests, and I will start with them. So first of all, the basics, a blood pressure test at least once a year at the clinic, whether it's at the nurses' office, whether it's at the doctor's or the family doctor's, it doesn't matter. For early detection of hypertension, which is a disease without symptoms and has many, many consequences. If it is a stroke, if it is heart attacks, things whose frequency increases with age. Once every 3 years, again in a healthy population, without a background, a blood test should be done to detect elevated cholesterol or diabetes.
Prof. Rahav, chairman of the Association for Infectious Diseases, added: "First of all, it is much simpler and much more effective, and much more economical to prevent a disease than to treat it. There is nothing to say. So first of all we really want to prevent diseases and there is We have the possibility to do this in a very nice way by vaccines. So what are the vaccines that are really recommended for the third age? Because there is really a difference in vaccines at every age. First of all there are diseases of the respiratory tract and there are at least four diseases that can be prevented.
Second thing, of course flu.
There is currently a severe flu outbreak and there is now a good flu vaccine."
What else is important to know about the issue? Watch the full panel in the player above.
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