4. Results
The average age of participant was 70.57 ± 9.05 years. In
total, 119 (59.5%) of the participants were female. Before
the trauma, about one-thirds of the participants lived
alone. Seventy patients (35%) had injuries in pelvic; other
areas of injury were 41 (20.5%) in upper limb, 58 (29%) in femur, and 31 (15.5%) in knee and below knee. Patients’
characteristics are presented in Table 1.
In total, 44% of elderly had a history of previous trauma.
Among them 63.6% had fractures; 29.5% had soft tissue
injuries and 6.9% had head trauma. Previous trauma happened
2.37 ± 3.77 years before the current trauma. Previous
trauma was 69.3% in lower limb, 17% in upper limb and
13.7% in other organs. Most injuries were occurred in the
morning hours (45.5%), around 8 AM. In total, 75% of patients
had undergone surgery in their treatment (internal
fixator (65.5%), skeletal traction (6%), amputation and
surgical reduction (3.5%). Other treatments were splint
and casting (6.5%), rest and medical treatment (18.5%). In
total, 80.5% of the elderly were completely independent
based on ISADL before trauma; this decreased to 13.5%
one month after trauma. 32% of the elderly were completely
or relatively dependent 3 months after trauma.