The proportion of fall patients over the age of 70 has increased by 2.1 times in 10 years
Oct 20, 2025
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According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's injury survey (2024 injury type and cause statistics), it increased by 18.2 percentage points from 17.1% in 2014 to 35.3% in 2024. It was analyzed that the higher the age, the higher the hospitalization rate and mortality rate.
In addition, over the past five years (2020-2024), the number of fall accidents for the elderly aged 65 or older filed with the Korea Consumer Agency's Consumer Risk Monitoring System (CISS) has also increased every year. In particular, accidents occurring in elderly care and medical service facilities and buses have increased.
Accordingly, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Korea Consumer Agency will conduct a 'fall prevention campaign for the elderly' for a healthy life by preventing falls in daily life.
This campaign is designed to raise the awareness of safety of the elderly themselves and to strengthen the prevention capacity of elderly care workers. To this end, three kinds of 'fall prevention promotional videos' for the elderly were produced (indoor, outdoor, bus service) and one 'practical educational video' for elderly care personnel. The produced video is also installed on the online education platform and used as an educational material for elderly care personnel. In addition, fall prevention videos will be transmitted through the internal media of the bus, and each local government and health center nationwide will also participate in the spread of content to maximize the effect of message delivery.
Director of the Korea Consumer Agency Yoon Soo-hyun said, "Fall prevention is an important task that is directly related to the healthy retirement of the elderly. We hope that this campaign will contribute to the spread of safety awareness among both the elderly and elderly care workers." he said.
Lim Seung-kwan, head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said "Fall accidents often lead to traumatic brain injuries and fractures, so it is very important to prevent them from falling in daily life through the educational video distributed this time, and hope that the people will live healthier lives by utilizing customized exercise programs developed and distributed by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prevent falls in the elderly."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
