[right way right]

Better electric wheel chairs and scooters are more common now and adult diapers are higher tech.

Gramma gets up, gets in chair, sits all day relieves herself all day in diaper, gets cleaned up at bedtime, goes to bed lives though the night again and the cycle starts again.

[lightman]

More cell phones and cordless phones.

Gramma carries a phone in the basket of her wheelchair or walker—doesn’t feel compelled to hurry across the throw rugs when the damn thing rings.

[cherry]

no....if anything, elderly are more active...the more active, the better their muscle tone and bone density....

now there might be the reason...heavier people have more bone density...more bone density, less osteoporosis....less osteoporosis, less hip fractures......we all know that western societies have gotten heavier over the last few decades...

the rare advantage of carrying extra weight....