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The older adult or geriatric population includes individuals age 65 years and older. This is the traditional definition used in the federal statutes in the United States (e.g., for Medicare and Social Security eligibility). Although this age cutoff allows group comparison, an important consideration is that the traumatic brain injury (TBI) literature often reports differences in demographics and outcome across the age spectrum in a continuous rather than a categorical (i.e., old vs. young) manner (Englander et al. 2007).
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