The graying of America means this debilitating injury is likely to increase.
Experts call for prevention and treatment improvements.
By Victoria Stagg Elliott , AMNews staff. Feb. 19, 2001. Additional information Recovery from a broken hip, particularly among the elderly, can be hampered by an acute care hospital model that minimizes rehabilitation services, has poor linkages between hospitals and postdischarge care and lacks emphasis on patient function. These factors combined with an aging population have some physicians sounding alarms. It has tremendous potentially negative impact at an individual level on each patient and on the whole health care system in general.