Unintentional injuries among older adults in northern Sweden--a one-year population-based study

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Britt-Inger Saveman, Ulf Björnstig

Abstract

To study the epidemiology of unintentional injuries in a population of 21,000 Swedish older adults (65+) and to compare the injury incidence with similar data collected two decades earlier. This is a retrospective epidemiologic cross-sectional study based on a 1-year data set of all the 1753 registered injury events from a well-defined population. The injury rate per 1000 individuals was three times higher in the 85+ age group than in the 65-74 age group. The rate was also higher in women than in men aged 75 and older. Fractures, especially on lower and upper extremities, were the most common injuries. Falls in residential care facilities caused the most serious injuries. In transport areas, pedestrian falls and bicyclist crashes were much more common than car crashes. Of the 1753 people injured, 42% were treated as inpatients for a total of 11,569 days; 86% of these days were caused by injury events in the home (57%) or in residential care facilities (29%). Our 65+ age group occupied 69% of all hospital bed-days for trauma in all ages (0-102 years). Over the last two decades, the injury and fracture rate per 1000 individuals has increased by 40-50%, especially in the older age groups. During this time, the nursing strategy for...Continue Reading

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Oct 16, 2015·Geriatrics & Gerontology International·Fu-Ting WangHung-Hui Li
Jun 11, 2014·Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences·Lina GyllencreutzBritt-Inger Saveman
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