The numbers on falling

•One in four Americans aged 65 or older falls each year.

•Every 11 seconds, an older adult is treated in the emergency room for a fall; every 19 minutes, an older adult dies from a fall.

•Falls are the leading cause of fatal injury and the most common cause of nonfatal trauma-related hospital admissions among older adults.

•Falls result in more than 2.8 million injuries treated in emergency departments annually, including more than 800,000 hospitalizations and more than 27,000 deaths.

•In 2015, the total cost of fall injuries was $50 billion. Medicare and Medicaid shouldered 75 percent of these costs.

•The financial toll for older adult falls is expected to increase as the population ages and may reach $67.7 billion by 2020.

Source: National Council on Aging

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