{"id":1478,"date":"2010-05-05T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/05\/1478\/"},"modified":"2010-05-05T05:00:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T05:00:54","slug":"1478","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2010\/05\/05\/1478\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stats on who falls over are alarming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;About a third of people over 65 years of age that live alone will experience a fall this year.  For those over 85, it will be half.&#8221; (Vancouver Coastal Health website)<\/p>\n<p>Note the reference to home as danger. There&#8217;s no mention in the blurb on preventing falls on the lacing of our streets with debris or tripping over kerbs.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>There are approximately 4,000 hip fractures in British Columbia each year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For seniors, falls are the most frequent cause of injury-related hospitalization (from <a href=\"http:\/\/hiphealth.ca\/hip_health.htm\">hip health centre <\/a>website)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stats on who falls over are alarming. &#8220;About a third of people over 65 years of age that live alone will experience a fall this year. For those over 85, it will be half.&#8221; (Vancouver Coastal Health website) Note the reference to home as danger. There&#8217;s no mention in the blurb on preventing falls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}