For four years Constance Oyibo answered detailed questions about a medicines routine she does not personally carry out.
Fear of falling causes more loss of function than most falls do. People stop moving, decondition, and then fall.
Strength training in the eighties works. It is prescribed rarely, described cautiously, and generally offered later than it should be.
We were reviewing with the patient and instructing the carer by leaflet. Exactly backwards.
Illustrative composite
Continuity matters more here than in almost any other population, because the history is long and the person telling it may not be the patient.
“It seems obvious,” her son says. “It took four years.”
