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'Nationwide since 2012, firearms have been used in at least 15 homicides and more than 95 suicides related to dementia, a Kaiser Health News investigation found.

Each day, for the next 11 years, roughly 10,000 Americans will turn 65.....

To prevent tragedy, society must take steps tp keep lethal weapons away from those who put themselves or others at risk.

One in four Americans aged 65+ falls each year. Every 11 seconds, an older adult is treated in the emergency room for a fall; every 19 minutes, an older adult dies from a fall. Falls are the leading cause of fatal injury and the most common cause of nonfatal trauma-related hospital admissions among older adults.
Falls in the Elderly Statistics | NCOA

Eris wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:54 am They are just fear mongering in exactly the same way the Republicans do about immigration. They don't care about truth.

featureless wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:09 am

Eris wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:54 am They are just fear mongering in exactly the same way the Republicans do about immigration. They don't care about truth.

Yup.

BKinzey wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 1:29 pm Yes, nice reference for quality of life. Remove methods of suicide but not the desire nor work on the cause. Something to look forward to.

An increasing number of elderly patients nationwide are on multiple medications to treat chronic diseases, raising their chances of dangerous drug interactions and serious side effects. Often the drugs are prescribed by different specialists who don’t communicate with each other. If those patients are hospitalized, doctors making the rounds add to the list — and some of the drugs they prescribe may be unnecessary or unsuitable.

“This is America’s other drug problem — polypharmacy,” said Maristela Garcia, director of the inpatient geriatric unit at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, Calif. “And the problem is huge.”

Some drugs can cause confusion, falling, excessive bleeding, low blood pressure and respiratory complications in older patients.

Older adults account for about 35 percent of all hospital stays but more than half of the visits that are marred by drug-related complications, according to a 2014 action plan by the Department of Health and Human Services. Such complications add about three days to the average stay, the agency said.