Fire deaths among adults aged 65 and over have accounted for at least 2.4 percent and as much as 3.3 percent of all unintentional injury deaths for the age group dating back to the year 2000, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report is based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics that shows unintentional injuries of all kinds accounted for 85 percent of all injury deaths among adults aged 65 and over.
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- During 2012–2013 alone, 90,640 adults aged 65 and over died from unintentional injuries. Slightly more than one-half of these injury deaths were due to falls. Age-adjusted death rates for all unintentional injuries have been increasing since 2000, although the rates for fire deaths have slightly declined from 3.3 per 100,000 in 2000 to 2.4 per 100,000 in 2013 (the last year for which statistics are available.)
- 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.
- Death rates are significantly different for all age group comparisons for each cause of death. The rate of death due to fire among people aged 85 and over (3.6 per 100,000) was more than twice as high as the rate among people aged 65–74 (1.7 per 100,000).
- For many causes of death due to injury, the age-adjusted death rates among adults aged 65 and over were higher in nonmetropolitan areas than in metropolitan areas.