{"id":86098,"date":"2026-03-08T10:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86098"},"modified":"2026-03-08T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:12:08","slug":"accidental-poisoning-deaths-soar-among-over-65s-with-dementia-and-poor-eyesight-likely-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/08\/accidental-poisoning-deaths-soar-among-over-65s-with-dementia-and-poor-eyesight-likely-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidental poisoning deaths soar among over-65s &#8211; with dementia and poor eyesight likely factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1XJVPL.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Hospitals in England recorded 17,252 poisoning-related admissions in 2024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Accidental poisonings are on the rise among older adults, experts warn \u2013 with over-65s now twice as likely to die from one as the general population. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/health-news\/accidental-poisoning-deaths-soar-among-over-65s-with-dementia-and-poor-eyesight-likely-factors\/ar-AA1XJTx5?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69ad43fd39bc4710a8fca78207e1e083&amp;ei=193\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Accidental poisonings are on the rise among older adults, experts warn \u2013 with over-65s now twice as likely to die from one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/overmedication.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86099,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86098\/revisions\/86099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}