{"id":22881,"date":"2024-05-24T08:36:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T12:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22881"},"modified":"2024-05-24T08:36:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T12:36:14","slug":"what-women-should-know-about-medicare-coverage-for-health-screenings-and-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22881","title":{"rendered":"What women should know about Medicare coverage for health screenings and exams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Liz Seegert for Fortunewell published on May 23, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As women get older, our risk for certain chronic diseases increase. We can thank the aging process itself, and the loss of estrogen\u2019s protective effects after menopause. Older women are more prone to conditions like osteoporosis, which can cause brittle bones. The chance of heart disease rises, as do the odds of developing dementia, in part because women tend to live longer than men, and risk increases with age. <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/well\/article\/medicare-coverage-womens-health-screenings\/\">Here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-17791\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful.jpg 1254w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Liz Seegert for Fortunewell published on May 23, 2024 As women get older, our risk for certain chronic diseases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,32,12,200,6,51],"tags":[1338,1339,61],"class_list":["post-22881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-cms","category-health-care-general","category-health-insurance","category-medicare-general","category-womens-health","tag-amacfoundation","tag-womenshealth","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22882,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22881\/revisions\/22882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}