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From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Elderly people (that is, people aged 65 years and older) are more prone to heat stress than younger people for several reasons: Elderly people do not adjust as well as young people to sudden changes in temperature. They are more likely to have a chronic medical [...] Willard Wilson began his morning like any other, making his way to his bathroom for a shave in a senior’s residence in Pierrefonds, near Montreal in Quebec, Canada. While he was getting ready to shave, the 94-year-old man lost his balance and fell into his empty bathtub. Trying to pull himself out of the [...] Falls. By children. By the elderly. For seniors, falls are associated with: lower-body weakness problems with balance and walking visual impairment chronic illness or a history of stroke. Falls are the leading cause of unintentional home injury deaths, accounting for 33 percent of deaths. According to the Home Safety Council (HSC) they account for more [...] The Austria Independent newspaper reported a woman was found trapped in her bath. 78 years old, Mary Rauscher was discovered by his daughter when she came to visit. Rauscher was trapped in the bathroom for four days because she could not get up and out from the bath. The report indicates that Rauscher told her [...] The problems in retirement homes exposed by an undercover Toronto Star investigation should be easier to root out once new regulations are in place next year, says Ontario’s minister for seniors. “The unfortunate fact is that for 20 years we’ve been talking about this. This is the government that’s finally doing something about it,” said [...] People who are better at simple physical acts such as gripping, walking, rising from a chair and balancing on one leg are more likely to live longer, according to a new study published on bmj.com today. Measures of physical capability, such as grip strength, walking speed, chair rising time and standing balance ability, can predict [...] According to a study by the Institute for Aging Research, older adults who fell outdoors were somewhat younger than those who fell indoors, more likely to be male and better educated, and had lifestyle characteristics indicative of better health. Those who fell indoors had more physical disabilities, took more medications, and had lower cognitive function [...] Here is an example where a walk-in tub would help in a dangerous situation. From heraldexpress.co.uk. An elderly man was rescued by firefighters after locking himself in the bathroom at his home in Paignton, UK. He became stuck in the tub, but no one else in the property was able to help him out because [...] We usually scold our children and teenagers for watching too much TV. It turns out that their grandmas and grandpas spend even more of their time watching TV. And it is not good for them either, according to researchers at the Stein Institute for Research on Aging and Rady School of Management at the University [...] |
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