Compared to other types of serious injury for older people, falls are by far the most common (Figure 1). Falls account for 77% of injury hospitalisations among those aged 65 and over and outnumber all other injury causes combined by a ratio of 3:1.
Australians aged 65 and over were 8 times as likely to be hospitalised and 68 times as likely to die from a fall than those aged 15–64 (Figure 1).