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Lung function declines with age. Decreased elastic recoil of the lungs, impaired mucociliary clearance, and skeletal muscle weakness all contribute to decreased lung function and compromised airway function and clearance. As a result of these changes, cough and dyspnea become increasingly common in older adults. Between these changes to the airway and scarring processes in the lung from conditions like pneumonia, chronic lung diseases increase with age. Importantly, multimorbidity from cardiac, gastrointestinal, and nasopharyngeal causes is more prevalent with age and complicates elucidating the exact cause of respiratory symptoms. While many of the changes are inevitable with time, healthy pulmonary aging depends on physical activity, proper diet and weight management, avoidance of smoking and environmental exposures, and guideline-based lung cancer screening. This chapter will discuss the pathophysiology of lung diseases in older adults while also considering strategies for optimizing lung health with age.

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  1. Yale University School of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

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    Brian J. Clark & Kathleen M. Akgün

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Clark, B.J., Roeder, N., Akgün, K.M. (2019). Pulmonary Health and Healthy Aging. In: Coll, P. (eds) Healthy Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06200-2_8

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