Prostate: Check this starting at age 50, and recheck every 2 years or so unless your doctor recommends otherwise.
Mammogram: Check as often as your doctor recommends.
Body Mass Index (BMI): This basically checks whether you are overweight or obese based on your gender, height, and weight.
This looks like a pretty long list, but look at it this way: everyone knows sports cars require more maintenance to keep up their sleek looks. You are a sports car. Anyway, these are the same tests you should have been taking since the age of 50. The frequency has probably picked up a bit, but that’s about it. If your biggest concern in life is a little annoyance because you have to keep taking these tests that all come back negative, then you are very lucky indeed.
Depression
Nobody likes to talk about it. When you were a child, depression was seen as a self-indulgent funk you could throw off if you just snapped out of it. Science has come a long way in the last 55 years, but many seniors are still reluctant to talk about it.
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