http://medfirstalert.com/senior-fall-prevention/shocking-video-and-statistics-on-elderly-falls/ Medical Alert Systems for Seniors Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://medfirstalert.com/senior-fall-prevention/shocking-video-and-statistics-on-elderly-falls/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Eduardo Garcia Sun, 30 May 2010 19:29:48 +0000 http://medfirstalert.com/?p=1388#comment-102 When my mom fell in the bathroom and broke her hip, was devastating, but it was never the same person. I allways regret not having installed grab bars and prevent a fall. After this, my in law were the beneficiaries, they have grab bars in the bathroom, hand rail in the hallways between rooms , on univen floors, hand rail when they go to the pool have to grip as they walk, motion sensor ligths in dark rooms, in places where the floor is slippery, antislip tape is applied. Years later, when the level of sales of my business decreased by economic crisis, I gave the task of finding a new source of income, research fall in ederly and how to prevent these falls and avoiding loss of independence. Unfortunately South Florida does not have an effective program for the large population of elderly living in this county. This country spends $30 billion per year in health care related to falls in the elderly and this is a lot of money. The South Florida spent for this cause I have not found statistical reports, but we do know is that inhabit nearly 1 million elderly and there reports that suffer injuries from falls , 33% of them, if we extrapolate the data, is still much money. But these elderly have no money, 20% of them live below poverty level and no found any investor to participate to create a business, no money to earn, no motivation When my mom fell in the bathroom and broke her hip, was devastating,
but it was never the same person. I allways regret not having installed grab bars and prevent a fall. After this, my in law were the beneficiaries,
they have grab bars in the bathroom, hand rail in the hallways between
rooms , on univen floors, hand rail when they go to the pool have to grip
as they walk, motion sensor ligths in dark rooms, in places where the floor is slippery, antislip tape is applied. Years later, when the level of sales of my business decreased by economic crisis, I gave the task of finding a new source of income, research fall in ederly and how to prevent
these falls and avoiding loss of independence. Unfortunately South Florida does not have an effective program for the large population of elderly living in this county. This country spends $30 billion per year in health care related to falls in the elderly and this is a lot of money. The South Florida spent for this cause I have not found statistical reports, but
we do know is that inhabit nearly 1 million elderly and there reports that suffer injuries from falls , 33% of them, if we extrapolate the data, is still
much money. But these elderly have no money, 20% of them live below
poverty level and no found any investor to participate to create a business, no money to earn, no motivation

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