How Can Walking Cane Be Improved

Genius Hour How can walking canes be improved?
Walking canes are a big concern for elderly or disabled people. Walking canes are a big backbone to elderly and have an impact on their daily lives. Eventually falls will occur more often each year and will lead to more deaths yearly. About one-third of the elder population over the age of sixty-five falls each year. Walking canes are better when there are more legs, you have control of the canes legs in any direction, and when the weight is divided. Walking canes are better when there are more legs because they cover more area. Think of a table. No one has a table with one leg because four legs represent a square, a square is one of the best shapes for stability. The reason why they are not good for walking cane purposes is that they are only stable when they are flat on the ground. If the person with the walking cane is moving, the walking cane is moving too, and if the walking cane is a square, then it will only be on the ground when the elder is right beside the walking cane which is the only place that …show more content…
Having control of anything is good. If someone has control of the walking canes legs, then they have control of where their weight is distributed and they have way less of a risk of falling. Each leg is connected to the handle but not solidly connected. The legs are loosely connected so that when there is a force applied to the handle, the weight that they are putting on the cane gets distributed to each leg individually and every leg has the tendency to stay on the ground. A website said that the Hurricane is only a universal joint and doesn’t generally support weight like it should. (Hurricane main website)The Hurricane is similar to a regular stick cane and only supports weight like a stick cane. This led to another good idea or