FALLS HAUNT LIVES OF ELDERLY (Orthopedics This Week)
If one is 65 or older one of the specters that is most personally haunting is the possibility of a fall. One-third of the individuals in that age range do fall with the result that hundreds of thousands suffer from devastating hip fractures each year.
According to research published in the JAMA Internal Medicine, and reported on by Hannah Stuart, writing forMDNews, more than a third of the elderly living in nursing homes died within six months of fracturing a hip. Nearly half of hip fracture patients in nursing homes die within one year of t...
