More people dying from falls, elderly women most at risk: CBS
The number of people dying after a fall has quadrupled in the last 20 years, latest figures from statistics agency CBS have shown.
Some 7,000 people died as a result of falling in 2023, 12% as many as the previous year.
Some 43% of people who died within 30 days of a fall were over 80 and 36% were 90 or older. An average of 19 people died of a fall in 2023, with half suffering a broken hip. In a quarter of cases a head injury led to death.
Women were more at risk than men, accounting for 60% of the 80-year-olds who died and 75% in the over-90 age group.
Falls account for the largest number of deaths from non-natural causes in the Netherlands. People with dementia are also more likely to suffer a fall and die as a result.
CBS said the rise in incidences is linked to an increasingly elderly population.
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