Health Maintenance Guidelines
Ages 75 & Over

Check Up

Check blood pressure, weight and height to calculate body mass index (BMI) and health risks.

Screening Tests

• Diabetes: All non-Caucasians; All Caucasians with sustained blood pressure greater than 135/80, or BMI greater than or equal to 25, or history of gestational diabetes, or family history of diabetes.
  
• Colorectal Cancer (Options): Until age 75; Colonoscopy every 10 years; Fecal Occult Blood Testing every 3 years with sigmoidoscopy every 5 years; or Annual Fecal Occult Blood testing.
  
• Assessment of Risk for TB: To determine risk factors

Immunizations

• Influenza: Yearly
  
• Tdap/Td: Tdap required once in a lifetime. Then, Td is required every 10 years.

Men’s Health

• Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA): Current evidence does not recommend routine PSA screening for average risk men.

Women’s Health

• Mammogram: Every 2 years; optional after age 74

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