When you’re dealing with an illness or injury, it can be difficult to find care quickly. Primary care offices can be booked out far in advance, and emergency rooms typically have long wait times. The good news is that urgent care offers a wide range of services for people of all ages.
At Emerald Coast Urgent Care, our experienced providers excel in treating many conditions that older adults may experience. We offer shorter wait times, extended hours, and three convenient Florida locations to ensure you get the help you need when you need it.
Senior Urgent Care: The Services You Need
As an older adult, you may deal with certain conditions or illnesses that require prompt medical care. Urgent care is an excellent and convenient choice for a wide range of problems. Here are just a few common issues that urgent care can help with.
Urinary Tract Infections
Older adults, especially women, may be more prone to urinary tract infections (UTIs) or bladder infections. These uncomfortable and bothersome infections can be serious and may require treatment with an antibiotic. Symptoms may include:
- Pain while urinating.
- Burning.
- Pelvic pain.
- Lower abdominal pain.
- Frequent urination.
- An urgent need to urinate.
- Bloody or cloudy urine.
- Lower back pain.
- Fever.
- Confusion.
Urgent care is an excellent choice when you need care for a urinary tract infection.
Sprains, Breaks, and Other Injuries
Older adults can be prone to suffering a sprain or a break as a result of a fall or another injury. It is helpful to know that urgent care is an excellent choice for rapid care for an injury, without the long wait times of an emergency room.
Urgent care providers can diagnose ankle sprains, fractures, and many other injuries. Diagnostic services like X-rays ensure you get the treatment you need rapidly. If you are diagnosed with a sprain, strain, or fracture, urgent care clinicians can typically provide the treatment you need onsite—whether you need a wrap, a splint, or a cast.
Senior patients may deal with troublesome cuts, bruises, and other injuries. Urgent care is an excellent choice for these as well and can provide comprehensive wound care for a broad spectrum of injuries.
The Flu, GI Bugs, and Dehydration
When you reach an older age, illnesses like the flu or a GI bug can hit you hard. You may be fighting a fever and fatigue from the flu. Persistent vomiting and diarrhea from a stomach bug can quickly cause dehydration, requiring prompt medical care. IV fluid therapy can correct dangerous dehydration and electrolyte imbalances and get you on the road to recovery.
For comprehensive care for the flu, gastrointestinal illness, COVID-19, and other ailments, choose the convenience and expertise that urgent care offers.
Convenient Senior Urgent Care
For rapid, comprehensive care for a wide range of health conditions, illnesses, and injuries, visit our caring team at one of our Emerald Coast Urgent Care locations. Help is closer than you think.
