McKnight’s Senior Living May 23, 2024
“It takes a child one year to acquire independent movement and 10 years to acquire independent mobility. An old person can lose both in a day,” said Bernard Isaacs, MD, one of the great innovators in geriatric medicine.
Every second of every day, an adult aged 65 or more years in the United States falls. That makes falls the leading cause of injury (36 million each year) and death (more than 32,000 each year) in this age group, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least 300,000 older adults are hospitalized for hip fractures each year, and broken bones and head injuries are common as well.
Those statistics indicate that falls need to be taken seriously...
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