Give Yourself a Ski Lift
If you’ve ever tried to use a walker in snowy conditions, you know that the walker legs, with their rubber tips, tend to get stuck in the snow, making forward mobility a major winter challenge.
Category: Age Tech
Easy Pull-on Fall Reduction
#TechTuesday Continuing with our January topic of winter fall prevention, we bring you YakTrax walkers. YakTrax are stretchy rubber straps that pull on over the soles of your shoes or boots, and have metal coils…
Raising Cane
#TechTuesday Among older adults, falls are the most common cause of traumatic head injury, and icy walkways are a very common cause of winter falls. In an online article on the Mayo Clinic website, Minnesota…
Connect with Friends
#TechTuesday Do you like to read and miss your book club? Pour yourself a glass of Chardonnay and check out the Senior Planet Virtual Book Club. They just finished reading the award-winning book by Minnesota…
Senior Planet, “Stuck at Home”
#TechTuesday Check out Senior Planet’s long list of ideas to overcome feeling “all dressed up with nowhere to go.” Staff has compiled a long list of Stuck-at-Home Guides with enough events and opportunities to fill…