Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Cases - For Elderly, a Little Fall, a Big Worry - NYTimes.com


Cases - For Elderly, a Little Fall, a Big Worry - NYTimes.com: "“She’s 88 and tripped and fell yesterday,” the emergency room doctor told me when I answered the page. “She was on the floor about 15 hours when her family found her.”
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“What did she break?” I asked.

“Nothing,” he said, as I recall. “But she’s too weak to stand, and we can’t send her home since she lives alone.”"

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