This article is so ridiculous it's difficult to even know where to start!
Except to say, Age Concern, where is the demonstrable link between toenails being long and falls or, as they put it, cutting people's toenails will prevent hospital admissions!
It's amazing how obsessed people who are not involved in cutting toenails and will never have to perform such as task professionally for someone else put so much emphasis on the potential dangers of not doing it!
Specifically, when I worked in acute Diabetes, I was eternally involved in conversations and education about the fact that cutting the toenails of Diabetics does precisely nothing to prevent acute complications in the Diabetic foot!
During the 3 years I worked solely in this area, I did not come across a single patient that had an acute problem as a result of their nails or they way they cut them!
And another incident I was involved in where a patient was referred to me from the falls prevention team because they had decided that her bunions where putting her at risk from a fall and, so, could she please have surgery on them.....she was in her 90s!
I'm all for nail cutting services, but, please, less of the rubbish about hospital admissions!
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