When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fell recently at a dinner event in Washington, D.C., he unfortunately joined a large group of his senior citizen peers.
When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell fell recently at a dinner event in Washington, D.C., he unfortunately joined a large group of his senior citizen peers.
Alter said that as a clinician in a southern Florida facility, his ER department was the perfect study grounds to evaluate incoming geriatric patients due to falls. Older"patients are at higher risk of skull fractures and intercranial bleeding, and we wanted to look at any patient presenting with a head injury. Some 80% were fall related, however."
Jennifer Stevens, MD, a gerontologist and executive director at Florida-based Abbey Delray South, is aware of the dire numbers and sees their consequences regularly."The reasons seniors are at a high fall risk are many," she said."They include balance issues, declining strength, diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, side effects of their medications, and more."
Additionally, as our brains begin to age in our middle years, the neural pathways from brain to extremities start to decline, too. The result is that many people stop picking up their feet as well as they used to do, making them more likely to trip. If you've reached your later years, however, and are experiencing physical declines, it's smart to check in with your primary care doctor for an assessment."He or she can get your started on regular PT to evaluate any shortcomings and then address them," Cole said.
"Then we match them with classes to address their shortcomings," she said."It's critical that seniors have the ability to recover and not fall if they get knocked off balance."
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