Pneumonia in Geriatric Care Facilities

Pneumonia in Geriatric Care Facilities

The Pneumonia is commonly found in geriatric care facilities now a day. The below paper is about the increasing trend of pneumonia in people living in geriatric care facilities and most of them are over 65 years of age. The paper also talks about the suggestions to reduce the rate of pneumonia in geriatric care facilities (Hebrewhealthcare, 2009).

The disease of pneumonia is the fundamental cause of mortality amongst the residents of geriatric care facilities. One of the research concluded that one resident among 1000 is affected of pneumonia in the geriatric facilities. The ...