ABSTRACT
Pressure sores are most common in the elderly (70% are in the over-70s) and neurologically impaired; it accounts for 6% of deaths on geriatrics wards and 7-8% of the deaths in paraplegics. The commonest type is the ischial sore (30%), then the greater trochanteric and the sacral (20% each) and the heel 10%, with the remainder consisting of sores on the malleoli and occiput.
