Fall detection -- a look back -- much innovation but little impact
First the good news -- life expectancy is up. So as boomers cross the 65-year-marker at 8000 per day, 10,000 per day, or whatever, they just received some good news, for a change, from the CDC. Life expectancy has inched up. A woman who is 65 today can expect to live an average of 21 more years (to age 86), and a man at 65 has an average life expectancy of 18 more years (to age 83). Note that these are averages and that the averages include those with chronic diseases. That average reflects the nearly 26% likelihood of diabetes (diagnosed and undiagnosed) -- and that it is diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the US and that heart disease is the number one cause of death among women and ditto for men.