Protect your hips.
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Just a theory.
The hip shatters first, then you fall. All persons that fall do not have a broken hip, but everyone with a broken hip falls.
IMHO
One of the highest risks of death in elder age is broken hips.
1st the careless fall.
2nd the hip cracks or breaks
3rd this leads to irreversible alternate internal problems
4th fast path to death
I read about this and experienced an older very healthy friend die this way, although she did the stairs fall.
Older folks must constantly re-practice how to walk cautiously. I love my fellow FRiends and if this saves one life ... But your angle is also interesting. :-)
i pretty much agree with you. A nurse at my Mom’s nursing home gave this as her theory also. She was convinced that the break or fractures actually happen first (brittle bones) and that causes the person to fall. Not the other way around.
My Mom had a broken pelvis in her fall. I had her all day and she kept slipping down while I held her hand as we walked. She did this about 5 times. As soon as I returned her to the care center (alzheimers) she went down and “broke her pelvis”. The nurse’s theory made sense to me. I believe her pelvis was hair line fractured and without support (never needed before) she fell.
The nurse said a lot of caregivers think the fractures are in reverse. Fracture first, causes the fall.
And, my Mom did pass about 3 months later, at 84. Could not walk again after “healed”. Slipped into a coma.