'It's great watching people improve' – NHS falls clinic helping the elderly get back on their feet

[Northerner]

IT’S an alarming statistic that one in three people over 65 will have a fall this year. While our risk of falling increases with age, it’s by no means inevitable and experts believe the majority of falls could be prevented with some fairly modest changes to our lifestyle or home. Keeping strong, eating well and wearing the right footwear all help.

Sadly, even when an older person makes a complete recovery following a fall, the experience can seriously affect the confidence they have in their own mobility and can lead them to limit getting out and about. This can be harmful not only to their physical welfare but their mental health too. So, it’s really important to try and prevent falls happening in the first place or to try and make sure someone who has had a fall doesn’t have another.

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/n...c-helping-the-elderly-get-back-on-their-feet/

 

[Robin]

IT’S an alarming statistic that one in three people over 65 will have a fall this year. While our risk of falling increases with age, it’s by no means inevitable and experts believe the majority of falls could be prevented with some fairly modest changes to our lifestyle or home. Keeping strong, eating well and wearing the right footwear all help.

Sadly, even when an older person makes a complete recovery following a fall, the experience can seriously affect the confidence they have in their own mobility and can lead them to limit getting out and about. This can be harmful not only to their physical welfare but their mental health too. So, it’s really important to try and prevent falls happening in the first place or to try and make sure someone who has had a fall doesn’t have another.

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/n...c-helping-the-elderly-get-back-on-their-feet/

I hate the expression 'have a fall'. I’ve got two years to go before I’m at the age (65) when I suddenly don’t clumsily or carelessly trip over something, but 'have a fall'

 

[Eddy Edson]

I hate the expression 'have a fall'. I’ve got two years to go before I’m at the age (65) when I suddenly don’t clumsily or carelessly trip over something, but 'have a fall'

I've been a champion have-a-faller since youth. My best effort was I believe in the winter of '94 in NYC, when I slipped on black ice & landed backwards on my head with a very disturbing deep "bong" sound, which I can still remember perfectly, with shudders.

 

[trophywench]

I hate the expression 'have a fall'. I’ve got two years to go before I’m at the age (65) when I suddenly don’t clumsily or carelessly trip over something, but 'have a fall'

Ah yeah but I waited till I was 68 to 'have a fall' though God knows I'd been regularly practising falling over for approx. 67 years by then. Please don't wait as long as me to break a bone though, and don't let your first attempt at it be one of your kneecaps!

 

[Northerner]

😱

 

[mikeyB]

As a fully qualified professional faller, my home is set up with grab rails in the bathroom, non slip flooring and no traps like loose rugs or cats.

And I’m not even old....oh, hang on a minute...