How Pharmacists Are Guiding Patient Vaccines Through Every Life Stage
As data reframes vaccines as a lifelong tool, pharmacists are becoming the access point that keeps patients up to date at every stage of life.
Vaccination has long been framed as something completed in childhood, but public health guidance increasingly treats immunization as a continuum that follows patients into old age. The CDC's vaccines-by-age schedule outlines routine immunizations from birth through the geriatric years, including a series of infant and childhood vaccines, adolescent boosters such as human papillomavirus (HPV) and meningococcal vaccines, and shots aimed specifically at older adults, including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination for those 60 years and older and a 2-dose shingles vaccine for adults aged 50 to 64 years.1