SAFE - Strategies to Avoid Fall among Elderly
People over 65 years of age constitute the largest demographic in the United States. Our project focuses on this population that moves out of their homes when their physical abilities decline with aging. Ultimately, they come to rely on assisted care facilities. Research has shown that this displacement in the lives of the aging population has a demoralizing and detrimental impact on the elderly. Atul Gawande in his book, Being Mortal, cites examples from several case studies of how medical science has it all wrong, especially when people get old and decline. Most often than not, for the aging population, the move to an assisted care facility did not enhance their quality of life, but it shortened their life span and made them unhappy, sick.
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