Seniors with gastrointestinal disease may need to take a variety of medications to prevent diarrhea. Some medications may cause diarrhea in seniors. It's important to keep raw meat away from other foods or utensils that will be consumed or touched. Diarrhea can be fatal for elderly individuals.
Insite is the first legal supervised drug injection site in North America, located at 139 East Hastings Street, in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] The DTES had 4700 chronic drug users in 2000 and has been considered to be the centre of an injection drug epidemic.
individuals visiting Insite nurses for services other than supervised injection. sought care for injection related wounds or infections, 7% sought psychosocial. support, 6% sought foot care, 3% sought respiratory care, 2% sought a. pregnancy test, and 17% sought other health services (33).