Word: infirmity
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...Violators may pay large fines and/or serve up to five years in prison. But waits at the security checkpoints (six have just been added, bringing the total to a generous 20) were usually less than five minutes, and passengers seemed to be handling the preholiday stress well-even the infirm elderly woman who tripped a metal detector and had to laboriously remove her black orthopedic shoes for inspection and watch her purse being ransacked before she was carted off, exhausted, in her wheelchair...
...term role reversal is frequently used about adult children and infirm parents. No question: dependency shifts. Some children help parents with everything from housekeeping to daily physical care. But parents keep a parental role, Fingerman maintains, and being aware of this can ease resentment. "Your parents are still more interested in the minutiae of your life than anyone else," she points out. "They still give you love. What you do for them may have changed, but you are their kid, and you will always be their...
...business while the shirt continuously monitors their condition. And the JoyDress by Italian designer Alexandra Fede uses a network of fine, flexible pads to give a soothing massage at the touch of a button. EXOSKELETONS Strength in Bubbles New inflatable muscles could provide enhanced mobility to the elderly and infirm. Developed at Tokyo's Science University by Hiroshi Kobayashi, whose previous research focused on lifelike robotic faces, this Lycra suit employs tiny air canisters to inflate rubber muscles that boost the strength of the wearer's actual muscles. Pressure sensors detect the wearer's movements and direct the suit accordingly...
After Hamas bombers claimed 25 victims in Israel last week, the isolation of Yassin made a good show of a crackdown, but little more. The infirm cleric in his white robes, confined to a wheelchair since a teenage sports accident paralyzed his limbs, speaks in a soprano pitch so soft a listener can barely hear him. But for years his fiery exhortations preaching eternal warfare until Israel is driven into the sea made him the dominant figure in an organization that turned his words into action. Now he is largely a figurehead. He presides over Hamas' sprawling social services...
That's a worry many boomers bear for themselves and their parents. And they worry about a range of mental incapacity that can begin far short of full-blown dementia. Your infirm father may no longer be capable of managing investments, but he may do fine balancing his checkbook. How will it be decided whether folks like him--and sooner or later, folks like us--have lost the capacity to drive a car or consent to surgery...