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The Gimlet Eye falls outside the box, and is writing this from recovery. Our companion in curmudgeonliness,
Laurie Orlov, whacks us upside the head with first the good news then the bad. US life expectancy is up: if you are 65 today, on average you will live to 83 (men) and 86 (women), even with the rise in chronic conditions that affect quality of life, such as diabetes and heart disease. But the
bad is that death from falls is also up. This is despite all the systems and gizmos the Digital Health Industry has concocted to detect falls beyond
1970s PERS technology. Once upon a rose-colored Telecare Time we thought we could infer falls purely by sensors detecting lack of activity (the basis of
QuietCare, GrandCare, Healthsense, the late
WellAWARE). Then with
accelerometers, fall detection would be automatic,
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