EDITORIAL
Geriatrics
Falling wrinklies
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor I B Pless
Editor; barry.pless@mcgill.ca
Papers on the elderly are just as welcome as those on children and adolescents
Keywords: elderly; geriatrics
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In this issue, and again in the following one, we will include papers addressing one of the main injury problems of the elderly, falls. As a card-carrying "wrinkly" (the name our children disrespectfully use to address their aging parents), I fully understand the need for this emphasis. A few weeks ago I chased after a hat that had blown off my head and fell from a deck landing on my back. I emerged in pain but otherwise unscathed. At the Melbourne World Conference I arrived with a fractured clavicle after falling down the stairs at Sydney airport (actually, I was pushed). At another injury conference I came on crutches after having damaged a heel. I had fallen off a ladder that I had foolishly placed on a chair on a table to help me reach a bird feeder! (I was assured that this was not as stupid as it
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