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The health care impact and costs of falls in older adults are significantly rising all over the world. The cost of falls is categorized into two aspects: direct cost and indirect cost. Direct costs are what patients and insurance companies pay for treating fall-related injuries.
Falls in older adults are a major class of preventable injuries. Construction workers, electricians, miners, and painters are occupations with high rates of fall injuries. Long-term exercise appears to decrease the rate of falls in older people. [5] About 226 million cases of significant [clarification needed] accidental falls occurred in 2015. [2]
Older adults who have experienced a traumatic injury after a fall are 21 percent more likely to later receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or another related dementia, a new study indicates.
It has been recommended that older adults participate in resistance training two to three times a week to weaken the effects of sarcopenia. [41] Assistive technology can also be applied, although it is mostly reactive in case of a fall. [42] Exercise as a single intervention has been shown to prevent falls in community-dwelling older adults.
Falls are the leading cause of emergency department admissions and hospitalizations in adults age 65 and older, many of which result in significant injury and permanent disability. [17] As certain risk factors can be modifiable for the purpose of reducing falls, this highlights an opportunity for intervention and risk reduction.
The demographics of Virginia are the various elements used to describe the population of the Commonwealth of Virginia and are studied by various government and non-government organizations. Virginia is the 12th-most populous state in the United States with over 8 million residents [ 2 ] and is the 35th largest in area.
This is a list of U.S. states, the District of Columbia and territories by median age in 2020. [note 1] The median age is the index that divides the entire population into two numerically equal age groups, one younger than that age and the other older than that age.
A child and two adults walking on a railroad bridge were killed when they were struck by a train in northern Virginia, police said. Fairfax County Police say their preliminary investigation shows ...