Icy climate change linked to increase in falls in Montreal

One of the possible reasons for the increase in falls among older adults observed over the past two decades is climate change, suggests Dr. Sidonie Pénicaud, a physician with Montreal’s public health department specializing in public health and preventive medicine. “The winters we have are not the winters we had years ago,” she told The Gazette. “There is more freezing and thawing — conditions that lead to icy roads and sidewalks: maybe more freezing rain. Al