‘Tis the season for falling over in the snow – and I am scared witless

A third of over-65s fall over at least once a year, with falls the age group’s most common cause of death from injury. Help!

On Sunday I took the big dog out for a walkie in the snow and realised ‘tis the season for falling over. The pavements are either slithery with melting slop or trodden flat into ice-rinks. One little tug from the dog, and I would have been on my bum, or my ancient legs would have snapped like twigs.

Only now, at 75, do I wish I had a fat bum. I have hardly any bum left, and it is no fun, whacking one’s bones on the pavement. So I chickened-out and drove the car at 5mph to the park and walked on some safer grass.

Continue reading... December 11, 2017 at 08:50PM