Senior Adult Vaccines - Arizona Partnership for Immunization

Senior Adult Immunizations

Moving into your older adult years brings on many changes. One thing that does not change though, is the need for vaccines! Adults need a few different vaccines than children and some seniors need options based on certain health conditions. We encourage you to talk to your doctor or health care provider about which vaccines are right for you.

Some of the vaccines that are important:

Yearly influenza (flu) vaccine.
Shingles (Zoster)for adults 50 years and older.
Pneumonia vaccine for older adults.
Tdap vaccine (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) which replaces the Td vaccine, every 10 years.
Hepatitis B vaccine.

Adult Immunization Schedule

Additional adult resources

Why You Should Immunize

Tips to remember:

Keep going to your annual physicals and ask questions.
Get your yearly flu shot!
If you are a new grandparent – make sure you are up-to-date on your whooping cough vaccine (Tdap)
Always remember to wash your hands, cover your cough and stay home when you are sick.

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"My mom said “It’s okay—we got our flu shots.” Still, I was not reassured. But my mom has my house key, and I literally was in no condition to prevent her from coming over. Mama and my aunt nursed us back to health. I braced myself to return the favor when they inevitably got sick. Except…they didn’t get sick.
The flu shot that year was quite effective against the strain we had caught. My chronically ill mom and aunt did not get it from us, despite direct, prolonged exposure. Meanwhile, we had been in misery, remained exhausted and weak for a long time after recovery, lost time from work, and racked up medical bills. I had to admit that my mom and aunt had made the right decision to get vaccinated.
Despite all this, though, my (mis)understanding of vaccines in general and the flu shot in particular made me reluctant to get it for my young family. Somehow I remained more afraid of the flu vaccine than the illness.

Fast forward one year. My twenty-eight-year-old friend caught the flu. It progressed to pneumonia. Then she went septic and her kidneys failed. She fell into a coma.

She died. She had not been vaccinated.
The flu killed her in less than three weeks. She left behind an eight-year-old son. I was beside myself—clearly I had more to learn about the flu and how it can kill even young people.

Information is how I cope, so I read. I read that flu vaccines, even if they don’t prevent the flu entirely, lessen the severity of the illness and prevent hospitalization. I had heard this before, but I’d also heard the opposite from anti-vax sources: that a poorly matched flu shot made for a less effective immune response and increased death. Wondering how one could know which was true, I started getting into the weeds of the reports and statistics.
I encountered a fact that shook me to the core: about 80% of pediatric flu deaths occur in children who weren’t vaccinated.

Immediately, my mind flashed back to a memory of running and carrying my whimpering and unresponsive toddler. I belatedly realized how much I had endangered her, how much I had risked, by withholding the flu shot. At this point I had already begun discovering that much of what I thought I knew about vaccines was based on misunderstandings and distortions. But this discovery hit me hardest.

I had sincerely believed that breastfeeding, elderberry, and organic nutritious food were the best defenses against the flu. They’re not. The flu shot is. My elderly, chronically ill mother showed me this when she cared for my flu-stricken family and remained flu-free. But much, much more important than my anecdote is the evidence and data over the years and across populations that support this."

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Powerful message from @MeaslesRubella Initiative stakeholder and friend @gavi ! https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/immunization-is-best-weapon-against-poverty-by-anuradha-gupta-2020-10?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=page-posts-october20&utm_post-type=link&utm_format=16:9&utm_creative=link-image&utm_post-date=2020-10-27

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27 Oct

A new book on a prominent misinformation campaign targeting the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine has profound insights into current vaccine debates, such as those emerging around a potential COVID-19 immunization. via @doritmi https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2020/10/27/anti-vax-mmr-covid/

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