
Falling...and over 65s
Going for my daily walk, I toppled and smashed down and banged my knees on two sharp stones. Tore my trousers and gashed my two knees. Totally unexpected. Falls are a recognised serious health problem, , costing millions of euros, taking up thousands of hospital admissions and over 15,000 bed days and can have devastating outcomes, involving hospital stay, loss of income, complications and change of lifestyle. While I got a fright, it takes more than that to do me in. But 100