Susceptibility to falls and the severity of falls increase with age, compounding the risk.

“so I think there's two ways to kind of think about this right there's what is it that increases our susceptibility to fall and why is that going up as we age and then there's another issue which is not only does your probability of fall going up but the severity of the Fall is also going up as you age so those two things are compounding and that's why if you look at the data and I actually do think I included this figure in outlive I have a figure that shows the death rate of Falls by decade and I mean if you want if you're trying to explain to somebody what exponential growth looks like you just show them that graph right like that's exponential growth and that's why right two things are compounding nonlinearly and you put them on top of each other”

“there's another issue which is not only does your probability of fall going up but the severity of the Fall is also going up as you age so those two things are compounding and that's why if you look at the data and I actually do think I included this figure in outlive I have a figure that shows the death rate of Falls by decade and I mean if you want if you're trying to explain to somebody what exponential growth looks like you just show them that graph right like that's exponential growth and that's why right two things are compounding nonlinearly and you put them on top of each other”