{"id":1493,"date":"2018-06-06T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2023-04-20T06:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T06:23:30","slug":"why-are-vaccines-for-pneumonia-important-for-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/geriatrics\/why-are-vaccines-for-pneumonia-important-for-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are vaccines for pneumonia important for elderly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"caps\">The elderly are more at risk for pneumococcal disease.<\/p>\n<p>Elderly pneumonia is particularly serious as it can lead to infections of the lungs, bloodstream, brain and spinal cord.<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 vaccines that help prevent pneumonia in seniors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PCV13 (pneumococcal conjugate vaccine)<\/li>\n<li>PPSV23 (pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Speak to your doctor about getting your pneumonia vaccines NOW!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1325\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Untitled-1.jpg 1325w, https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Untitled-1-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Untitled-1-1024x386.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Untitled-1-768x290.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Untitled-1-600x226.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1325px) 100vw, 1325px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1325\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2.jpg 1325w, https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2-1024x386.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2-768x290.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2-600x226.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1325px) 100vw, 1325px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kauvery Hospital is globally known for its multidisciplinary services at all its Centers of Excellence, and for its comprehensive, Avant-Grade technology, especially in diagnostics and remedial care in heart diseases, transplantation, vascular and neurosciences medicine. Located in the heart of Trichy (Tennur, Royal Road and Alexandria Road (Cantonment), Chennai, Hosur, Salem, Tirunelveli and Bengaluru, the hospital also renders adult and pediatric trauma care.<\/p>\n<p>Chennai \u2013 044 4000 6000 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Cantonment \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Heartcity \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Tennur \u2013 0431 4022555 \u2022 Maa Kauvery Trichy \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Kauvery Cancer Institute, Trichy \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Hosur \u2013 04344 272727 \u2022 Salem \u2013 0427 2677777 \u2022 Tirunelveli &#8211; 0462 4006000 \u2022 Bengaluru &#8211; 080 6801 6801<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elderly are more at risk for pneumococcal disease. Elderly pneumonia is particularly serious as it can lead to infections of the lungs, bloodstream, brain and spinal cord. There are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geriatrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8903,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/8903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}