Why do old people fall and get hurt?

[FiLtH]

 Seems like whenever you hear of an old friend of the family falling, it often times results 2 weeks later as pneumonia and death.

[Vudak]

Seems like whenever you hear of an old friend of the family falling, it often times results 2 weeks later as pneumonia and death.

Much of the time, going into a hospital might as well be a death sentence for the elderly, or at least it seems like it.  The majority that I have known who have gone in have not come out.  They usually don't die (ostensibly, I suppose) of the same problem they went in to treat, either.

[Halo]

I'm beginning to think that bones break or weaken enough to CAUSE many falls by the elderly instead of just being the result of falls for unknown reasons.

[M0nkey_Man]

maybe its the stupid questions that get you lit up brighter than a christmas tree

[allaire]

It was a legitimate question, why do you think I was trolling?

-Penguin

Maybe the little smiley face or perhaps the fact that you seem to take up the opposite opinion of the OP almost without fail.  Of course it could just be that the majority or the crowds is just cynical about stupid questions.

[Rob52240]

My dad falls once or twice a week.

[jimson]

Old people often have respiratory problems, diabetes, heart and vascular problems etc.

A lot of the falls are from dizziness and passing out.
 

[Plawranc]

QED.

[Penguin]

The reason that I disagree with the OP almost without fail is that I usually only post in threads where I disagree with the OP.  Sometimes I do agree, but those posts are in the minority because I spend much of the time that I spend here defending my positions.

-Penguin

[vafiii]

The real reason old people fall is because they want attention. In a related story my great grandmother, at the age of 90, was dragged by a bus for several blocks as the result of the bus driver mistakenly closing the door on her leg while she was boarding. She was in relatively good shape at the time but suffered a broken hip. Later that night when my great grandfather visited her in the hospital, rather than direct her anger at the bus driver, she bashed my great grandfather over the head with her bed pan because he was too cheap to buy her a car.

[Tigger29]

It was a legitimate question, why do you think I was trolling?

-Penguin

Because this is information that is widely available to you on the internet.  You could have simply googled that exact question and you would have gotten all of the info you need on the subject.  The fact that you chose to ask us instead (and wait minutes or hours for a response instead of a few tenths of a second) makes your post suspect.

Now if you were asking our opinions on something specific it may be different, but what you asked for is really nothing more than factual data.

[VonMessa]

The real reason old people fall is because they want attention. In a related story my great grandmother, at the age of 90, was dragged by a bus for several blocks as the result of the bus driver mistakenly closing the door on her leg while she was boarding. She was in relatively good shape at the time but suffered a broken hip. Later that night when my great grandfather visited her in the hospital, rather than direct her anger at the bus driver, she bashed my great grandfather over the head with her bed pan because he was too cheap to buy her a car.

Since there are no emoticons associated with this statement, I assume you are serious and I'll kindly ask you to pass the pipe to me, next. 

 My name is not Skip, nor is this a tennis game and, if it was, I am certainly not the net.
 

[dedalos]

Why do old people fall and then are unable to get up?  I don't see people falling on a regular basis, even at the old folks home.

-Penguin

I would ask an experienced expert on the subject.

HELLOOOOOOO BIGHORN!?!?!?!?!  WE FINALLY FIND A USE FOR YOU.  CAN YOU HEAR ME????

[2bighorn]

I would ask an experienced expert on the subject.

HELLOOOOOOO BIGHORN!?!?!?!?!  WE FINALLY FIND A USE FOR YOU.  CAN YOU HEAR ME????

It's dark down here, help me up you @#$%&

[phatzo]

It's dark down here, help me up you @#$%&

get up yourself, you're just seeking attention lying there moaning and groaning "My hip, my arm"