Would be interested to see a breakdown of what type of falls these are. Falls in bathrooms, outside or on ice?
Why have death rates from accidental falls tripled?
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#12Very old people are a larger proportion of the total population than before.
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#13It is weird that the graphed increase grows steadily at presumably the same rate - there is no spike or bump or curve. I wonder if that indicates anything.
Disregarding the shape of the graph, I would have guessed at a change in reporting instead.
The steadily rising curve almost looks like something being gradually employed.
At some point, the curve ought to change direction, if not before, then after the last person has fallen over.
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#14Idiocy?
Lots of new pastimes involve climbing up, diving off, or jumping between very tall things.
Usually with some sort of recording/streaming device strapped to the hobbyist.
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#15Idiocy? Lots of new pastimes involve climbing up, diving off, or jumping between very tall things. Usually with some sort of recording/streaming device strapped to the hobbyist.
The article says death rates from falls in younger people has declined.
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#16This might be evidence that the gravitational constant G is changing (increasing) over time! Could this be the explanation for dark matter and dark energy?
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#17Idiocy? Lots of new pastimes involve climbing up, diving off, or jumping between very tall things. Usually with some sort of recording/streaming device strapped to the hobbyist.
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#18Could less physical labor lead to weaker bones or atrophied muscles leading to greater fall mortality?
I did an Ozempic stint and noticed my bone density had decreased to the bottom 3 percentile for my age, and I lost muscle as well.
It's all on me, of course, but I wonder if this phenomenon is widespread, and if it'll result in more deaths from falls.
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#19This might be evidence that the gravitational constant G is changing (increasing) over time! Could this be the explanation for dark matter and dark energy?
Occam's razor says it's less likely that the gravitational constant is increasing and more likely that the ability to withstand the pull of gravity decreases with age.
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#20I would assume it is because of the extra distractions now. Everything becoming "smarter" and more addictive. How many were looking at their phones, hurrying back to catch the increasingly manipulative "news", or frustrated because their voice assistant didn't understand them?
Since 2000 all of these things, and the amount of tech per household in general, have gone up quite a bit. I'm surprised it wasn't listed as a hypothesis worth looking at.