Cognitive improvement in older adults in the year after hip fracture: implications for brain resilience in advanced aging.

Falls in older adults are common and debilitating. In the US alone, costs related to falls amounted to over 31 billion dollars; fall-related injury is among the top 20 most expensive medical conditions (1). One of the most serious fall injuries is hip fracture, seen in over 300,000 older adults yearly in the US (2). Hip fracture occurs more frequently in women, older adults, those with frailty associated with lower bone density (3), and those with neurodegenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's dementia (4).
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tags: Regular Research Articles Source Type: research