Even seniors in their 60’s should consider giving up stepladders, gutter cleaning, tree trimming....
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Ha! Tell that to my husband, who is in his 70s. He insists on going up on the roof to clean the gutters 3-4 times a year. (We have a lot of trees.) I pray fervently every time and ask him to please pay someone to do the job, but he is too stubborn.
Take him to a nursing home and ask a few folks how they got there. When he sees a few feeding tubes, catheters and wheelchairs, he may get the message.
It is the healthy, active septuagenarians who end up with the worst falls. Recently an acquaintance well into his 70’s, and a weekly tennis player, fell off a 6 foot stepladder onto the driveway and died before the EMT’s were on the scene. He was lucky not to have ended up paralyzed and comatose.
Eliminating the risk of falls is practically the only thing a person can do to avoid a miserable end.