New project highlights senior challenges

In a new national program called The Secure Project, the Carolinas Healthcare System is helping its employees to better understand seniors by showing them what it’s like to be elderly, to see life through a senior’s eyes.

The project brings understanding of the challenges and struggles facing the elderly by using special glasses, which simulate conditions like glaucoma and macular degeneration, and gloves, which mimic conditions like arthritis. The goal is to provide those who work with seniors with the kind of empathy that can be achieved only through persona experience.