Nursing Home Residents Twice as Likely to Suffer Fractures

A Canadian survey has revealed that older adults living in long-term care facilities are more than twice as likely as their peers living at home to suffer a fracture.  New guidelines endorsed by the Scientific Advisory Council of Osteoporosis Canada provide guidelines designed to reduce the risk.  The guidelines are similar to those those made by the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine in the U.S., and those for residential care facilities in Australia.

Go here to read the original article in The Hospitalist.