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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• de Castro, Visitación
• Mokoroa, Olatz
• Artieda, Juncal
• Muniozguren, Nerea
• Etxebarriarteun, Larraitz
• Alvarez, Lorea
• Garcia Calabuig, Miguel Angel

Titel

Epidemiology of accidents in a cohort of adults over 64 years old in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country

Ist Teil von

• Revista española de geriatría y gerontología, 2015-11, Vol.50 (6), p.281

Ort / Verlag

Spain

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Accidents represent a significant health problem for elderly people. The objective of this study was to assess the incidence of accidents in over-64-year-olds in the Basque Country population, and to describe the clinical-epidemiological features leading to them. This was a prospective cohort study of 15,192 non-institutionalised individuals over 64 years of age, conducted under the auspices of the Basque Sentinel Practice Network (Red Vigía) over one year. A questionnaire was completed for each accident. The rates and risks of accidents were calculated by sex and age group of the individuals who had the accidents. The rates of accidents were 46.52 and 81.87 per 1000 men and women, respectively. The most common type of accident was a fall (92%), and the most severe injuries were fractures (17%), with the risk of an accident being significantly higher in women and in the over-75-year-olds. These data reflect the scale of accidents in over-64-year-olds in the Basque Country. The most frequent accident was the fall, which represents a dramatic event among the elderly, being one of the main causes of injury, disability and institutionalisation among this population group.