Article Document Academic Article Information Content Entity Continuant Continuant Journal Article Entity Entity Generically Dependent Continuant 2025-05-06T14:36:44 RDF description of Orthopedic care for older adults: a new calculus - http://repository.healthpartners.com/individual/document-rn38251 23559 public <p>Orthopedic surgery continues to change at a great pace. Improved implants provide an increased range of motion with enhanced stability and durability. Minimally invasive techniques lessen soft-tissue damage for expeditious discharge and rehabilitation. Going forward, computer-assisted surgery is poised to help ensure reproducible and accurate placement of implants.<br>Most important, however, procedures have become safer even as they’ve become more complex.<br>These developments are responsible, in part, for another evolution: the increasing age of patients undergoing orthopedic surgery. In 2022, there were more than 18.5 million orthopedic procedures performed in the United States, and about 50% of these procedures were for people over the age of 65.<br>Certainly, the growth is fueled by the increase in the over-65 population, which grew 34% from 2010 to 2020. But another factor is higher utilization. In a three-year period, 13.6% of people over 65 years old had orthopedic treatment � this is about 50% higher than other adults. This is partly due to increased longevity, but another factor is a changing mindset.<p> 2024-12-14T22:07:15.519-06:00 37 Minnesota Physician Aging and Geriatrics Orthopedic care for older adults: a new calculus Orthopedics Surgery document-rn38251 40758 8