Statistics of Falls in Elderly People

Statistics of Falls

Number of falls incidents in aged 65 and
over
• The estimated number of the fall incidents in the people aged 5 years and
older in the year 2012-2013 was 98,704.
• The rates of the fall increased over the 11 years to June 2013 accounting
for about 35 per year.

Male and female rate
• 31,735 in the males to that of 66,969 for that of the females.
• This showed that females than suffered almost twice the number of falls
that of the males

Rates
• Mortality rate due to falls-aged 65 and above (compare with previous
data)-changes
For the people above 65 years old, the rate of mortality was found to be 696 a
rate of 52.7/100,000 population.
• Morbidity rate due to falls-aged 65 and over (compare with previous data)-
changes
For the people above 65 years old, the rate of morbidity was found to be
40,889 a rate of 3,126/100,000 population (compared with 38,487 a rate
of 2,993/100,000 population in 2015/16)
• Disability rate due to falls-aged 65 and over (compare with previous data)-
changes
50.7 % of the older adults had faced disability due to fall in the year 2015