traingang

My even hotter crank theory is that much of geriatric mobility issue is caused by just becoming sedentary. We somehow recognize being a couch potato is bad for you, except if you're over 60, at which point any movement kills you or whatever.

As I understand it that's also why broken hips have such a high mortality rate: the injury itself isn't particularly dangerous, but even with a hip replacement regaining mobility is difficult and painful and if someone doesn't manage it they'll be bedridden and suffer a pretty rapid decline over the next year or so.