(AGI) – Rome, February 5 – Every year in Italy there are about 2 million 800 thousand accidents in the home, with an incidence of 50 cases per 1000 inhabitants / year. And in 2012, 1.8 million Italians ended up in the emergency room for an accident in the house: in the first place and falls on top of the ranking of the elderly victims. Especially if women, whether alone or if guests nursing homes or hospitals. Here, in fact, the incidence of falls and ’2-3 times higher than in homes and for more’ with major complications. Are the data of Siniaca (information system on accidents in residential areas of the Higher Institute of Health ‘), published on the website of the Ministry of Health.
All this translates not only in terms of disability’ and hospital admissions , long and expensive for the National Health Service (‘was calculated at a cost of about 400 million Euros for a shelter from domestic accident), but also serious psychological repercussions: loss of security and fear of falling may accelerate the fact functional decline and induce depression or isolation. Among the people who ended up in the hospital, 20% were children (0-14 years), 30% of adults (15-49 years), 22% of older adults (50-69 years) and 28% seventy (70 years old and more ‘). The event more ‘frequent’ the total number of cases represented by: fall / stumbling / jumping / pushed from a height unspecified (29.7%) fall in the level (11.9%), shock (15.5 %), accidents or sharp objects piercing (11.8%). Adding together all the dynamics with the fall you get a percentage close to 50% of the cases (47.9%). With increasing age ‘appears incrementarsi the share of “tripping” than that of “slipping” because’ the elderly tend to stumble more ‘easily into objects, structures and wires, for posture problems, dizziness, or simply because ‘does not see well. (AGI).
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