The intracapsular femoral neck fracture in relation to mental state

One of the major achievements of the last century is the increase of the average life expectancy. In 1900, fifty per cent of the population could expect to live to the age of 55. Nowadays, however, fifty per cent of the population lives to the age of 80. In the industrialized countries less than ten percent of the population was 65 years of age or over in 1965. It is expected that in 2025, this percentage will be twenty percent! The other side of the coin is the growing morbidity of the aging population. Much of the current debate is concerned with the way in which the increase in impairments and disabilities resulting from the aging of the population should be dealt with. Geriatric surgery has become of major importance and hip fractures make up a large proportion of cases. The amount of people who are 30 to 40 years old today of whom it is predicted that they will sustain a hip fracture in the 2030s rests on a solid epidemiological base and the incidence of hip fractures will continue to increase.