The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on falls and fractures, 4 years on, are we any further forward?

Age Ageing. 2024 Jun 1;53(6):afae110. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afae110.

Authors

James Frith^{1

2}, Dawn A Skelton³

Affiliations

¹ Population Health Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
² Falls and Syncope Service, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
³ Research Centre for Health (ReaCH), School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK.

PMID: 38847545
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afae110

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; falls; fractures; older people.

MeSH terms

Accidental Falls* / prevention & control
Accidental Falls* / statistics & numerical data
Aged
COVID-19* / epidemiology
Fractures, Bone* / epidemiology
Humans
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2