For individuals aged 70 who break their hip, approximately 10% are expected to die within 3 years.

“if that was your femur I I'd give you a 30% chance of dying in the next year I mean it's just an un those are such difficult to recover from injuries because first of all you're dealing with the immobility of you know the hospitalization and immobility that follows that and the amount of muscle loss that occurs uh could easily be you know four or five pounds of lean tissue lost that for most people that age becomes almost impossible to get back that says nothing about sort of the acute causes of death like a fat embolism that results from a broken femur a blood clot from laying in bed those things are also catastrophic”