Trends of fall-related and other fatal injuries in older adults in Finland between 1998 and 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The number of falls and fall-related injuries will likely increase as the number of older adults expands. Increases in total deaths due to falls have been observed over Europe. Less is known about other injuries leading to death. To examine the incidence trends of fall-related and other fatal injuries among adults aged 65 or older in Finland.

Methods

We analyzed open data from Statistics Finland's register on the causes of death of those aged ≥65 collected between 1998 and 2020 yielding a total of 32 150 deaths due to injury using Poisson regression and distributional comparisons chi-squared tests.

Results

The most common injuries leading to death among people aged ≥65 in Finland were fall related. There has been an increase in the absolute number of fall-r

SUBMITTER: Ylitormanen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10710353 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature