As we age, our skin becomes thinner and loses the protective fatty layer that helps cushion blood vessels from injury. This makes older adults more susceptible to bruising, as even minor bumps can ...

"As we age, our skin gets thinner and at the same time our blood vessels become more fragile," explains Fisher. "This is a bad combination that makes bruising much more common as we get older." ...

Topical formulation repairs skin thinning, fragility and bruising as a result of aging, according to a press ...

Police have re-opened an investigation into how an 83-year-old woman suffered significant bruising during a stay at a Sydney hospital. The elderly woman was at Hornsby Hospital last Thursday for a ...

and actinic purpura (easy bruising related to vascular wall fragility in the dermis) (Gilchrest, 1990). Chrono logic skin aging, in contrast, is characterized by laxity and fine wrinkling ...