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The Science of Falling
Of the more than three hundred thousand older Americans who fall each year, forty percent end up in a nursing home, and twenty percent are never able to walk again. Dr. Joseph Choi of Chapman University studies the science of taking a tumble in hopes of saving seniors from these life-threatening falls. Here’s a closer look.
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