Why do elderly persons often develop bowed back and appear t

Why do elderly persons often develop bowed back and appear to lose height? Respond to this post and to, at least, 1 other student\'s post

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In many elderly people loss of height and bowed back results from fracture of the spine. When the bones break during the lifetime they get compressed not snapped. They get crunched down.

When the bones of the spine lose height, they lose height. The bones of your spine hold you upright. Those bones become weak and susceptible to fractures because of a bone-weakening condition known as osteoporosis.

Bone is continually demolished and reconstructed. Inside all of your bones, some cells are adding new bone and other cells are eating away at the old bone. With osteoporosis, bone reconstruction lags behind bone demolition.