Several relatives of mine have succumbed to ‘broken hips.’ I think it wasn’t so much the broken bones that killed them but the sedentary existence which constituted recovery. This resulted in serious muscle mass loss from which it is hard to recover at advanced ages.
Agreed...it was the lack of activity due to the injury. It wasn’t the injury itself. It healed slowly but he never recovered from the slowdown and he just kept slowing down.
Had he not broken his hip, and merely taken a tumble as he had in other activities before, he would have kept going for another 5 years.
The science is much better these days I’m 68 and just had the second hip done. The issues are overall physical condition including bone density active rehab and avoiding infection and pneumonia
Much better outcomes than even ten years ago