Will Harlow
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Which is the greatest risk.
In older ages, yeah.
Absolutely.
So with falls, they cost your healthcare system $50 billion a year.
Really?
It's massive.
Falls?
Yeah, just falls.
So the fallout falls in the elderly.
And many people who fall, who are over 65, will fracture their hip.
And the scary stat there is that one in three of those people will die within the next 12 months.
Wow.
So it's terrifying.
Yeah.
I've never come across that.
I mean, that's probably happened lots of times without me realizing.
29.
So it is primarily a measure of your leg strength and specifically quads and glutes.
And I call these your independence muscles.
Because if you've got strong quads and strong glutes, you're just much better overall in terms of your mobility.