{"id":9761,"date":"2026-02-25T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-geriatric-care-facts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:52:12","slug":"respiratory-therapy-geriatric-care-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-geriatric-care-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Respiratory Therapy Geriatric Care Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Aging Lungs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aging reduces lung elasticity and chest wall compliance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Increased Risk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elderly patients have higher risk of respiratory infections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Medication Sensitivity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Older adults may respond differently to respiratory medications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assessment Challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hearing or cognitive issues may affect assessment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chronic Disease Burden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many elderly patients have multiple respiratory conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-disease-facts\">Respiratory Therapy Disease Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-patient-assessment\">Respiratory Therapy Patient Assessment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-critical-thinking\">Respiratory Therapy Critical Thinking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aging Lungs Aging reduces lung elasticity and chest wall compliance. Increased Risk Elderly patients have higher risk of respiratory infections. Medication Sensitivity Older adults may respond differently to respiratory medications. Assessment Challenges Hearing or cognitive issues may affect assessment. Chronic Disease Burden Many elderly patients have multiple respiratory conditions. Related Articles Respiratory Therapy Disease Facts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[37,36,35],"class_list":["post-9761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-respiratory-therapy","tag-respiratory-therapist","tag-respiratory-therapy","tag-rt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9794,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761\/revisions\/9794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}