The NY Times reports: More and more elderly are falling and dying in America, but not in other countries.
Here’s the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/health/falls-deaths-elderly-drugs.html
JAMA also weighs in: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2837039#google_vignette
From JAMA: In 2023, more than 41 000 individuals older than 65 years died from falls. Among older adults, the number of deaths from falls is more than from breast or prostate cancer and is more than from car crashes, drug overdoses, and all other unintentional injuries combined. More importantly, the mortality rate for falls among older adults in the US has more than tripled during the past 30 years. In contrast, death rates due to falls decreased during the past 30 years in other high-income countries.
