Sentences with phrase «injuries than younger people»

The elderly are often susceptible to greater injuries than younger people, but this susceptibility is not to be considered in awarding damages.

Not exact matches

The study examined anonymous hospital data relating to more than one million young people aged 10 to 19 who were admitted to an emergency department in England between 1997 and 2012 having suffered an injury.

Head injuries are more common among older people than younger ones, and they are usually caused by falling.

The issue is that young people are more likely to attempt squatting without proper instruction and are more likely to lift more than they should, both these factors will lead to serious injury.

apart from the injury improvements, I have noticed my over used hairdressing fingers are painless and flexible again, also my skin is lovely and not dry, many people think I'm much younger than my actual age.

Researchers suggest that the diagnosis, management, and treatment of traumatic brain injury in older people is different than it is in younger people and that more research needs to be done to determine how best to diagnose, manage and treat older people who suffer these serious injuries.

Car accidents, however, are the leading cause of this life - changing injury in people younger than the age of 65, according to data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Some cases rely on the «Golden Years» doctrine, to suggest that an injury may have a greater impact on an older person, whose activities are already constrained by age, than on a younger person who may be active in other respects.

Any cause of action filed on behalf of a person who was a minor at the time of the incident must be filed within two years of the last act of omission that caused the injury or death, unless the child is younger than eight years old.

(c) A person commits an offense if he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence, by act or omission, engages in conduct that places a child younger than 15 years in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment.

Where circumstances are of such urgency that failure to treat the child or young person would likely lead to their death or to severe permanent injury, healthcare professionals can provide emergency treatment without consent, providing the treatment is no more than is necessary and is in the best interests of the child or young person.

In addition, regardless of accident severity, older drivers suffer graver injuries and more fatalities than younger people.

They are around twice as likely to be hospitalised or die from injury; six times more likely to die from assault and four times more likely to die from suicide.1 Up to 15 % of the 10 - year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is attributed to mental health conditions, 2 and Indigenous young people aged 12 — 24 years are hospitalised for mental and behavioural disorders three times more often than non-Indigenous young people.3