Weird New Invention To Save Elderly? 1/3/2018
I think most of us have or had an elderly person in our lives who we have loved, cared about and wanted what is best for them.
I personally feel that this could of been something for my grandmother to wear.
I say this because one of the biggest fears in my family's life when it came to my Grandmother was what if she ever falls down from the stairs just outside of her house or falls somewhere?
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The fear was big and this was because often in my grandmother's generation when it came to the topic of conversation on who had died recently and how they died, a fall was interestingly enough a very common cause, normally not killing on impact but the injuries often leaded to being hospitalised in which later they died.
And yes it seems to be a fact that %23 of those who fall die within that particular year of the incident, and a further whole %50 lose their autonomy, so I say and feel its pretty serious.
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Anyway in the future things might slightly different depending on how you see this new invention as hip fracture's are apparently one of the most common serious injury's endured by the older generation of people.
For example in the UK alone it costs the NHS a reportedly £1 billion every year.
So basically for places like the UK any potential solution is met with great enthusiasm by the medical community, even if many have their own doubts.
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So the French company Helite which you probably may have already heard of as they normally specialise in airbags for the extreme sports but have now decided to shift their skills in designing and inventing a special new belt for the elderly folks who wish to endure their own safety and protection of their hip joints.
Its been tested on 50 real patients in nursing homes in Burgundy France the shock absorption is about nine times better than a standard hip protector as the bags are able to reduce 90% of fall impact for the hip joints.
Its different to normal hip protection pads because it uses a combination of gyroscopes and accelerometers to detect when a fall is about to occur and deploys airbags before the subject hits the ground.
The average fall takes (0.4 seconds) and the bag can detect a fall within (0.2 seconds)
Wearable Hip Protecting Device
Granny Wears Hip Protection Device
My quick opinion is this can indeed be great for those wanting to protect their hips I mean I would ask my own grandmother to wear it but obviously one thing to point out from the video is the guy falls on hes knee so we need to be aware that it wont help on that department and the protector itself costing over $1000 plus nearly $70 to replace the air canister, does make you think could their not be a better solution for such a price?
If your looking for a solution to strictly protect the hips then this is fine but knees and elbows are still very much in danger.
Also from another video that I saw the guy doing the demonstration of the device seems to have hit the floor full force and then 1 second later the device sprung into action defeating completely the purpose of wearing one, so I also feel the device may still need a little more work before going on the market.
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Sounds like things are moving in the right direction although they would be prohibitively expensive at present.
Also, as you say they would only protect the hips. My mum has had 2 falls. IN the first she injured her knew and the second she cracked a vertebrae in her spine. Fortunately she was not hospitalised but she is still in pain from both. It's a big worry as she lives on her own.
Not sure what the answer would be though, short of an inflatable skin suit!
Yes so far pushing it in the right direction but yeah I agree its pretty expensive on launch, indeed falls are extremely worrying for the elderly sorry to hear about your mum that is a horrible fall and she was very lucky no further damage was done to her spine yikes, but yes it would only protect the hips area and some inflatable suit sounds like a step in the right direction @gillianpearce if they were to use something like this idea.
Yeah. I don't think @simonjay my mum would be willing to wear an inflatable suit. It would have to be some sort of inflatable clothes that still looked and felt like clothes. Maybe someone could invent an inflatable fabric that only blows up on extreme contact.
I wonder if that is the sort of thing you can do with nano technology. If it happens, remember you read it here first! 😊
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I can see where they are trying to go with this but I can't imagine it will kick off with how it is not I mean can you really see alot of elderly people wearing this on the street? as it not the fear of just falling at home
Yea I know what you mean the fact it looks rather bizarre but thats more on impact I guess it would look like you got one of these..
But saying that it was said not too long ago some celebs were making them popular again so you never know.
Yea they arent to just wear at home its for everywhere incase of a fall.
I guess the question is @hotmangoes would you not want a elderly loved one to wear one even if it looked silly or expensive?
Well that if they are willing to wear one themselves I mean it may be a hassle for them to take off when they need to say use the public bathroom