@article{ref1,
title="Deaths from unintentional injury among adults aged 65 and over: United States, 2000-2013",
journal="NCHS data brief",
year="2015",
author="Kramarow, Ellen and Chen, Li-Hui and Hedegaard, Holly B. and Warner, Margaret A.",
volume="",
number="199",
pages="1-8",
abstract="KEY FINDINGS: In 2012-2013, 55% of all unintentional injury deaths among adults aged 65 and over were due to falls. From 2000 through 2013, the age-adjusted fall injury death rate among adults aged 65 and over nearly doubled from 29.6 per 100,000 to 56.7 per 100,000. In 2012-2013, the death rate due to suffocation was more than 8 times higher among adults aged 85 and over (26.5 per 100,000) compared with adults aged 65-74 (3.1 per 100,000). Among adults aged 65 and over, the death rate due to fire was more than twice as high for non-Hispanic black adults as for non-Hispanic white and Hispanic adults. The death rate from motor vehicle traffic crashes among adults aged 65 and over was 1.7 times higher in nonmetropolitan areas compared with metropolitan areas.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1941-4935",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}