I didn’t know you could die from broken bones if you’re older. Check this out..
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Osteoporotic fractures that happen as a result of falls can have serious—even lethal—consequences. The chance of dying in the six months after a hip fracture is 20 percent to 25 percent, and it’s twice as high in men than in women. While men fall less frequently (15 percent of total falls), 40 percent of those men who do fall and break a hip die within the first year.
Falling isn’t the minuscule health issue that some people may believe it to be. Being prone to falling and fracturing (or fracturing and then falling, which happens much less commonly) signals some other underlying pathology such as inflammation in your body, which makes you more susceptible to other acute types of problems like pneumonia.
Ultimately, osteoporosis gives you a sense of frailty that limits your activity and sets off a chain reaction that makes you feel and become old.
It may seem that a stumble on the sidewalk, a slip on the ice, or a trip over a doggie toy isn’t so consequential. But realize that 30 percent of older people fall every year (5 percent or more of those resulting in fracture), falling is the leading cause of accidental death for people over 65, and a woman is more likely to die of complications from a hip fracture than of breast cancer, uterine cancer, and ovarian cancer combined.
Source: http://www.sharecare.com/question/why-falling-so-dangerous