A headache in the elderly.

The article presents a case study of a 79-year-old woman with gradual onset bilateral temporal headache of moderate severity. Topics include identifying secondary headaches of significant morbidity and mortality in all ages; and containing giant cell arteritis (GCA), cerebral ischaemia, infection (meningitis, encephalitis), intracranial haemorrhage, or neoplasm cardiac cephalalgia and acute glaucoma.