The elderly who have either had a fall or are at risk of falling need an effective and comfortable hip protection system.  Read about a product that has been designed to reduce the incidence of hip fractures in this article from McKnight’s Long-Term Care News and link to the SafeHip website.

The new Active SafeHip combines comfort and safety, according to the manufacturer.

Its patented shell technology uses an energy shunting technique to take the fall impact by dispersing the energy from the fall away from the resident’s hip area.

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