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The onset of the COVID\u201019 pandemic in the United States (US) marked a transition into a period of greater social isolation to curb the spread of disease. The pandemic additionally greatly strained the US healthcare system. As a result, older adults participated in less physical activity and experienced greater hesitancy to seek medical care in an effort to minimize their risk of infection. They additionally may have experienced delays and incomplete access to such care. It is possible that such changes worsened frailty and increased vulnerability to falls and fall\u2010related sequelae among this population. We hypothesized that the COVID\u201019 pandemic led to an increase in fall\u2010related fatalities generally and an increase in fall\u2010related fatalities that occurred in the home.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We conducted an interrupted time series analysis using a regression model on monthly fall fatalities among older adults from January 2015 through December 2020. Fall fatality data were extracted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide\u2010ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC WONDER), along with the estimated annual population of US residents aged\u2009\u2265\u200965. The COVID\u201019 pandemic, defined as starting in the US in March 2020, was the interruption variable.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>There were 192,586 fall fatalities among older adults in the study period, with a mean of 2614 deaths per month (\u2009=\u2009228.4) pre\u2010pandemic, and 3051 deaths per month (\u2009=\u2009215.1) post\u2010pandemic onset. There was no statistically significant change in the incidence of all fall\u2010related fatalities following pandemic onset. However, there was a 25% increase in incidence of fall\u2010related fatalities that occurred within fall victims' homes, specifically (IRR\u2009=\u20091.25, 95% CI 1.14, 1.36).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>There was a significant increase in fall\u2010related fatalities within homes among older adults in the US after the onset of the COVID\u201019 pandemic. During pandemic type situations and times of social distancing, increased social supports and resources must be maintained for older adults to reduce the incidence of falls within the home and fall\u2010related injuries.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/jgs.70245","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,27]],"date-time":"2025-12-27T12:02:43Z","timestamp":1766836963000},"page":"430-437","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Increase in Fall\u2010Related Fatalities in the Home Following the\n                    <scp>COVID<\/scp>\n                    \u201019 Pandemic Onset"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"74","author":[{"given":"Jessica","family":"Hoffen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University  Providence Rhode Island 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