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Friday, July 20, 2012
What does it feel like to get old? Younger folk can experience it with the Age Man Suit!
German scientists have created the suit to help educate young doctors on the changes ageing brings.
Consisting of ear protectors that stifle hearing, a yellow visor that blurs eyesight and makes it hard to distinguish colours, knee and elbow pads that stiffen the joints, padded gloves and a Kevlar jacket-style vest that presses uncomfortably against the chest, the Age Man Suit, which weighs about 10 kilograms, has been made to simulate the physical consequences of old age.
A walk up the stairs leaves one breathless and tired. Bending is laborious and with it comes the risk of toppling over. Trying to remove tablets from a blister pack is a fumbling disaster, and the heaviness coupled with the stifled hearing and vision is disorienting.
In the words of one of the scientists, ''My aim is to turn young energetic people into slow, creaking beings, temporarily at least. 'That way they will, I hope, develop a feeling for what it's like to be old. Only once we have their empathy, can we really begin to win students round to becoming interested in old people as patients.''
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