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Falling accidents can cause deadly consequences especially to the elderly. According to two Centers for Disease Control studies in 1994 and 2001, over one third of adults over age 65 fall each year in the USA. In 2005, approximately 16,000 adults over 64 died from injuries sustained due to falls. During the same time period, over 1.8 million people age 65 or older were treated in emergency rooms for nonfatal injuries, and 433,000 of those patients needed hospitalization. Since 1997, the number of deaths due to falls has risen. Twenty to 30 percent of older people who fall suffer injuries from simple bruising, broken bones, and head trauma. Falls are the most common cause of traumatic brain injuries. Nearly 8000 older Americans died from brain injuries after a fall in 2005. Another 56,000 people had to be treated for nonfatal brain injuries. These statistics are startling.

The first thing to do after your injury and you have cleared your head is to take notes. It may be the last thing you feel like doing, but it will be invaluable later on. Write down everything you can remember about the accident. Start with what you were doing before it happened. Think of every minute detail you can such as the time, the weather, and who you were with. Then document the accident. Include everything like what you saw, what you felt, and what happened. If there was a witness, write down what he or she said after it happened.

If you think of something later, write it down. Keep adding to your notes. Keep track of the injury in the days following such as every ache and pain. It would be a good thing to keep your notepad handy for a few days after the injury so you can continue taking notes about everything you remember. If you don’t write these details down, you may forget them as time passes. These notes will make it easier for you later to describe to an insurance company how much and what kind of pain and discomfort you were in.

If you are looking for information regarding injury statistics, here is a very useful link. There are many resources that provide detailed statistics on a variety of injuries.

http://www.osh.net/directory/safety/safety_01.htm

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 by: Martin Bleasdale

The “compensation culture” has been given a rather bad name over recent years; this is due to the large increase in no win no fee compensation claims not just in the States, but also across the globe. The question is, who is really to blame for this increase in claims?
People seeking such compensation claims have been described as “money grabbers” from a kerb tripping generation, personally I beg to differ, although it is true that there have been (and possibly will be more) false compensation claims from people wishing to make a fast buck, the majority of cases are from genuine victims of personal injury accidents which could have been avoided.

About the author:
Personal Injury Compensation Claims are increasing throughout the western word, but if you are entitled to make a claim, shouldn’t you, for more information contact Paul Rooney Partnership http://www.prp-online.co.uk