Older adults in the US are increasingly dying from unintentional falls
June 17, 2025
Older U.S. adults are increasingly dying from unintentional falls, and white people account for the vast majority of the deaths. That’s according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was published Wednesday. More than 41,000 retirement-age Americans died of falls in 2023. From 2003 to 2023, death rates from falls rose more than 70% for adults ages 65 to 74. The rate increased more than 75% for people 75 to 84, and more than doubled for seniors 85 and older. The CDC researchers did not try to answer why death rates from falls are increasing.