Why do older people recover slowly from fractures?

Regeneration in the elderly is reduced, so the healing of fractures is relatively slower than at a young age. Age leaves its mark on pathology and on the bones of the skeleton. Severe osteoporosis is not uncommon; in such patients, bones grow together for a very long time. Compared to young people, bones grow together several times longer, and some fractures without surgery may not heal on their own. The pathological fragility of blood vessels and their fragility, which occurs due to age-related changes, is also dangerous. This threatens with bruising and bruising, sometimes of a fairly large size in and around the injury. All this makes the restoration of bones after fractures in old age very long and problematic.