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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Age-related characteristics and treatment of pneumonia [Keywords:] age-related pneumonia The elderly immune function, lung decline purification system, immune senescence is the incidence of pneumonia in the elderly, a major reason for increased mortality. Decreased immune function in the elderly may be T lymphocytes in the immune response is weakened, it is estimated similar to the immune changes are taking place in the lungs of the elderly within the extent which rendered the lungs can not produce enough antibodies to target specific bacteria from the most appropriate conditioning effect; alveolar T-lymphocytes while aging to identify invasive bacteria, but stimulated by these antigens and proliferative capacity of the vitality is greatly weakened. In the elderly, although the macrophage function was normal, but the beginning of the T lymphocytes of aging supplement inadequate, thereby affecting neutrophil attracting multi-core, so the local response to pneumonia, often lighter, and because a lower level of humoral immunity, thus defense against pathogens significantly weakening the bacteria in the lungs may be based, growth, reproduction infection, the majority of lesions developed rapidly, resulting in difficult to treat severe pneumonia. Pneumonia is still the elderly frequently-occurring disease, with the increasingly aging population, age-related pneumonia and there is an increasing trend, it has been reported in the literature, pneumonia is still the direct cause of death in the elderly are a major factor is the writer’s experience in clinical work, an overview of features senile pneumonia and treatment. A cause Elderly patients with pneumonia often have expectoration functions to degrade, or because of disturbance of consciousness, so that sputum specimen collection are not satisfied, it is not clear cases of more pathogenic bacteria. Elderly pneumonia pathogens, bacteria still dominant. The 20th century, 50 years to pneumococ