Quick Summary Most fall-prevention advice focuses on not falling. This guide covers the other half of the problem: what to do in the half-second you are already going down. Researchers have shown that the way you land changes how hard you hit the ground, and that...

Long before the fall that breaks a hip, there are bruises nobody can explain and a daily routine that has quietly shifted. Steve Popovich talks about why people play down what has happened to them, what his father-in-law’s infection cost before anyone caught it, and...