‘Exercise Is Key to Falls Prevention’: Older Australians Urged to Decrease Fracture Risk Through Targeted Exercises

Older Australians are being urged to get active following a study that found lower physical activity to be associated with higher fracture risk. This comes after a study, led by Dana Bliuc from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, found that almost a quarter of a million Australians aged 45 and over were walking less than 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) every day, which was correlated with higher fracture risk. Currently, one in three older Australians living in the community experiences a fall, 130,000 are hospitalised because of a fall, and 5,000 die from a fall. A report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) found that half of the 233,000 hospitalisations from falls in 2022 involved a fracture....