| One of the worst things that happens to seniors, as | | | | shouldn't, we do have materials capable of this now. |
| they get elderly, is that they have slip and fall | | | | These materials would be fixed with electrodes and |
| accidents. When they do it can get very serious, as | | | | sensors, and when the person fell, a stream of |
| they can tweak their back, buckle a knee, break | | | | electrons would be sent through the material |
| their hip, or even fracture an elbow, which is a sign | | | | morphing its shape and changing its consistency to its |
| of bone loss and older age. But perhaps these things | | | | secondary state. This would take a tenth of a |
| do not need to occur, as maybe we can solve these | | | | second more than an airbag deploying in a car, which |
| problems with better materials and advanced | | | | would be plenty enough time to break the elder |
| technologies. Let me explain. | | | | seniors fall. |
| In old folks homes, senior assisted living facilities, and | | | | These surfaces could be placed in the home too, |
| long-term care residential locations the flooring could | | | | perhaps in the bathrooms, stairway, and any step-up |
| be made with material that both senses when a | | | | or entry way of the house. The materials would also |
| human is falling and then reacts by morphing itself | | | | work well on walk ways too. Perhaps, these |
| into a spongier surface. Thus, it would break the fall, | | | | materials could be used in parking lots along the |
| and become more of a rubbery mattress for a split | | | | handicap parking; that is if the price permitted such |
| second or two. Sounds too science fiction for you? It | | | | usage. Please consider this. |