Deans' stroke musings: Mortality from falls among US adults aged 75 years or older, 2000-2016

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Monday, June 10, 2019

Mortality from falls among US adults aged 75 years or older, 2000-2016

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Mortality from falls among US adults aged 75 years or older, 2000-2016

JAMA — Hartholt KA, et al. | June 07, 2019

In this investigation, researchers reported trends in mortality from falls for the United States population (aged 75 years or older) from 2000 to 2016. An estimated 28.7% of adults aged 65 years or older in the US fell in 2014. Falls lead to increased costs of morbidity, mortality, and health care. Age, medication use, poor balance, and chronic conditions like depression and diabetes were included risk factors for falls. For adults older than 65 years, fall prevention strategies are typically suggested. An increase in mortality from falls has been observed since 2000 in several European countries, especially among adults older than 75 years. This age group has the highest risk of falling and the potential for cost-effective interventions.