Falls and Fractures
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Research
2009
Unintentional
Fall Injuries Associated with Walkers and Canes in Older Adults
Treated in U.S. Emergency Departments (07/01/09)
(Journal of the American Geriatrics Society) From 2001 to 2006, an
average of 129 Americans ages 65 and older were treated in emergency
departments each day--a total of more than 47,000 each year--for injuries
from falls that involved walkers and canes, according to CDC. The study,
which examined six years of emergency department medical records, found
that, for older adults that had falls related to walkers- or canes,
most of the injuries involved walkers (87 percent). People were
seven times more likely to be injured in a fall with a walker as with
a cane. Older
women sustained more than three out of four walker-related injuries
(78 percent) and two out of three cane-related injuries (66 percent).
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