Home Safety Checkups for Seniors

Abstract

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is developing an idea that could help save possibly two billion dollars in Federal, local and family expenditures. It is an idea we are convinced will also bring longer and happier lives to millions of our nation’s senior citizens. An estimate was recently developed by a noted independent research institution, the Buffalo Organization for Social and Technological Innovation, for the Administration on Aging. It concludes, and CPSC studies support the estimate, that the overall impact of accidental injury to those over 55 years of age costs our economy something in the neighborhood of two billion dollars a year. This is a staggering figure. For example, it represents something like two-thirds the figure to be spent on all federal law enforcement in fiscal year 1984.