One-third of Americans over age 65 fall each year. It’s the leading cause of injuries, including fatal ones, among seniors and it costs the health care system $30 billion a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. And the problem has gotten worse: The CDC reports that the rate at which older Americans die from falling has increased sharply.
That increase comes despite years of research into why people fall and how to prevent it. This week, the National Institutes of Health announced a new study—”the Manhattan Project of trials in fall-injury prevention,” according to Dr. Shalender Bhasin, one of the study’s lead investigators and director of an NIH-funded center to promote independence for older Americans.
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