Unintentional falls among older adults have become increasingly deadly, with new federal data revealing significant increases in fall death rates over the past two decades. According to a Centers for ...

A coroner has criticised the conduct of a carer who argued with an autistic man hours before he fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Tenerife. Jamie Cole, 25, from Weston-super-Mare, was ...

WEST FARGO — Falls are the leading cause of injury-related death among adults ages 65 and older, and the fall death rate is increasing, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As ...

The unintentional fall death rate was overall higher for men at 74.2, versus women at 66.3. HealthDay News — For adults aged 65 years and older, the unintentional fall death rate was 69.9 per 100,000 ...

A mother whose adult son died after a fall from a chairlift at Keystone Resort this past ski season is calling for a change in the culture — and the law — surrounding the use of the restraint bar in ...

For a while, walking the dog felt hazardous. Earl Vickers was accustomed to taking Molly, his shepherd-boxer-something-else mix, for strolls on the beach or around his neighborhood in Seaside, Calif.