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Dementia patients face higher risk of flu mortality; refine guidelines needed for testing and vaccination policies (News-Medical-Net)
An epidemiological study on pneumonia and influenza (P&I) in adults age 65 and over reports that patients with dementia are diagnosed with flu less frequently, have shorter hospital stays, and have a fifty percent higher rate of death than those without dementia.