What are some of the Most Common Medical Emergencies Situation Of Elderly People ?
This can be answered in terms of symptoms and their degree of seriousness.

Chest pain may be due to angina or, if severe, a heart attack, especially if accompanied by sweating and breathlessness. As people get older, the blood supply to all parts of the body including the heart may start to fail. This process is accelerated by smoking, poor diet and illnesses such as diabetes mellitus.

Breathlessness may be due to a heart attack, but there are other causes such as pneumonia in people who are less mobile or bedridden. Other conditions such as heart failure may also cause breathlessness while uncontrolled diabetes mellitus may give “air hunger”. Lung disease may cause breathlessness. Emphysema is a gradual deterioration of lung tissue through a chronic cough, especially due to smoking over many years. Smoking may also induce lung cancer, which may cause breathlessness, coughing up blood and eventually death.