At what age does 'Fell Over' become 'Having a Fall'?

My daughter 38 tripped over recently & was recorded as "having a fall" , she was at pains to stress that she'd "fallen over" 🤣

Years ago I was admitted overnight with concussion and a broken wrist after falling off a horse.

According to my notes written up by the A&E doctor, I’d fallen off a house!

I was teased by friends a few months ago when I tripped and hit the deck on a loose paving stone. I say I tripped and fell and they delighted in telling me I’d had a fall! We are all 65 😂😂

I wouldn’t read anything into the wording used by the A&E doctor. ‘Had a fall whilst out running’ or similar terminology would be used for an adult of any age.

Didn’t we have a thread on this subject a while back?

I quite like ‘I tripped and fell’ as it sort of puts the blame on an inanimate object!

However, this week whilst out on her morning run she became a victim of a pavement pothole and hubbie insisted he took her to the local A&E to get an x-ray of the very swollen ankle. It has turned out no break just a nasty sprain.
The thing that most disturbed her was the Doctors saying she 'had a fall' now down in her medical notes. Not, as would have been said previously that she fell over
MyD (48) took a similar tumble shortly before Christmas, also a pothole, disguised by a pile of leaves, while out on a run after dropping her 9 year old at school. She was less lucky, ignoring it at the time, and struggling through Christmas and a post-Christmas holiday but eventually had it x-hated only to find it was actually broken.
She would never describe that as having a fall - that’s what I do. .

There isn’t, it’s just that having a fall is reserved for “old people”….

Young people fall over. Older people have falls!

I’m not sure what the difference is.