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IMAGE: The 'Capture the Fracture® Partnership - Guidance for Policy Shaping', with focus on the need for Post-Fracture Care Coordination Programs, focuses on the four simple building blocks of an effective...
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Credit: International Osteoporosis Foundation
February 1, 2021 - Nyon, Switzerland
By 2025 some 500 million people will be living with osteoporosis, a chronic disease which weakens bones and leaves older adults at risk of a fragility fracture - a broken bone which typically occurs after a low-trauma fall. As a result, an estimated 13.5 million fragility fractures will occur worldwide.
Fragility fractures affect older adults, and with the emergence of hyper-ageing societies in which over 25% of the population is aged above 65 years, the rapidly increasing fracture incidence will pose a growing burden to health care systems all over the world. Hip fractures, the most life-threatening and costly of osteoporosis-related fractures, are expected to increase by 310% in men and 240% in women by 2050 compared to rates in 1990.