My father, at the age of 98, fell in a nursing home and sustained a compound fracture of both his tibia and fibula. One of the bones remained protruding from his leg as his bones were too "old" to set and fuse. He lived the remainder of this life, another 7 months, with an un-stabilized compound fracture and was in pain every time he was moved. They actually wanted to amputate his leg toward the end.
I would have been so grateful if he could have been offered medically assisted relief.