How can we prevent the elderly from hazardous falls? - new inventions in nursing field 2009
According to the NYT article there are approximately 47,000 seniors fall each year. This represents approximately 3 people per week! What inventions during or traditional forms can help people to fall? What nurses in nursing homes to prevent falls?
-Edit-In the NYT article, walkers are dangerous for the elderly, because they are stumbling over their own works rather aid or do not help when a rocky road. I know it's called a new invention Isho model can recognize patterns, and other abnormal balance. Is there more to these inventions?
Monday, February 22, 2010
New Inventions In Nursing Field 2009 How Can We Prevent The Elderly From Hazardous Falls?
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Sidewalks made of rubber (recycled tires) made adds three security features to work outdoors.
1-traction.
2-A low-pass stage.
3-If the tree roots can buckle, crack and get holes in the cement sidewalks, rubber side walks would be a steep curve.
And it's green!
http://www.rubbersidewalks.com/
... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
"Breaking The rubber sidewalks - good for the trees, easier on the knees, no cracks on the back of his mother. In one of the biggest events of the nation, the district has in recent times, a value of several building blocks" of rubber sidewalks in the Northeast . The cost was $ 60,000, or about three times more than if it were concrete.
"Some roots of trees, paths sHelp for approximately the past 14 years - almost three times more than concrete - and are favored by officials of the city, that last year there were complaints over 2600 pieces of concrete, they were filed three complaints made by people who fell into the streets and replaced hundreds of trees. "
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