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  For old people, fall rhymes with risk of fracture of femur’s neck. A consequence which can turn out traumatizing for the victims. To prevent and protect from this risk, many solutions, more or less absurd, were imagined. The HELITE company proposes an original solution: an airbag. Having already applied this system to the riders and the motorcyclists, since seven years he has developed a new who would allow, as a garment, “a complete and effective protection”. This...(Read more)

  The balance’s problems remain one of the main factors of falls. Several means allow improving the stability, as the Qi Gong. It is doctor LIU Gui Zhen who used for the first time the term of "Qi Gong" to gather all the methods from antiquity. In the 50’s, under Mao, Qi Gong and Chinese medicine have known a big development, allowing to treat the population to expense lower.This one always played an important part in the Chinese society, in its medical aspect as...(Read more)

    February 4th 2010, Arnaud Montebourg, socialist president of the department of Saône-et-Loire, made adopted his last rescue plan for the department. This one includes the levying of local tax in favour of old and disabled persons. The autonomy losses of the old persons, considered as the “fifth risk”, is at present taken care by the autonomy personalized benefit (APA: allocation personnalisée d'autonomie). Necessarily financed by departments, its...(Read more)

  February 4th 2010, the Quebecois Minister responsible for the Elders, Marguerite Blais, inaugurated the opening of a PAIR program agency to Montmagny-L’Islet (France). Sometimes alone and isolated, an old person needs to be able to count on the help of someone else after a fall. In Quebec a solution was found thanks to the PAIR program, giving access to a service of daily automated phone call. Subscribed free of the system, the elder receives in his place of residence, at the...(Read more)