More than 41,000 retirement-age Americans died of falls in 2023. Here are tips to help prevent it.

More older adults in the United States are dying from unintentional falls, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics data brief out Wednesday, researchers found the death rate for falls in adults 65 and older increased with increasing age for both men and women. From 2003 to 2023, the rate increased more than 70% for adults ages 65 to 74, and more than 75% for those aged 75 to 84. It more than doubled for seniors 85 and older.

In 2023 alone, more than 41,000 retirement-age Americans died of falls — with more than half of those deaths among people 85 and older.