01-09-2017, 10:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-09-2017, 10:05 PM by panamaniac.)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but your calculation seems to assume that all hip fractures among seniors during the winter result from falls on ice/snow. That would not be so. On the other hand, there are significant costs to wrist and arm fractures, which I suspect are actually far more common among seniors who have slipped and fallen on ice/snow. Among seniors, as I understand it, a hip fracture is as likely to cause a fall as a fall is to cause a hip fracture.