The Cepa González Díez Foundation and the Activos y Felices Association presented this Monday an age simulator which recreates the aging of people and certain disabilities. The device, which trains empathy, allows social and health professionals, educators, businesses, young people and other citizens to put themselves in the shoes of elderly or disabled people, simulating their physical and sensory limitations.
The equipment is composed of individual components and, through their interaction, it is possible to achieve an effect that closely resembles that of the the limits of old agesuch as gait problems and impaired grip ability caused by age, increased mental stress or insecurity in movement.
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In this way, the one who puts on the suit sees a good part of his limited abilities and becomes in a few seconds an elderly person with the logical physical difficulties that this implies. Likewise, he has Sensors that simulate Parkinson’s disease, glasses that recreate cataracts and macular degeneration, gloves that reduce sensitivity, neck braces, elbow and knee pads that limit movement, or helmets that reduce hearing.
The objective of the Activos y Felices Association with this equipment, of German technology and whose acquisition was possible thanks to the Cepa González Díez Foundation, is to provide a tool to the social-health sector that helps it in the training of personnel, as well as in the development of new products and services aimed at the elderly. Likewise, it seeks to offer the younger generations a fully immersive experience of old age, which will help to eliminate prejudices, improve empathy and put themselves in the shoes of the elderly, with a view to changing the way they feel and live old age. today’s society.
The first time you’ll be able to experience the simulator up close will be on October 1st. World Day of Older Personsduring an intergenerational meeting between the students of the San Claudio school and their grandparents.
