Florene Shuber at Christie Gardens Apartments and Care, where she now lives. (Courtesy of Florene Shuber)
When Florene Shuber was around 82 years old, she noticed that sometimes she’d trip and fall.
“One thing that old people don’t realize when they fall, is they don’t know they’re falling until they’re about this far from the ground,” she said, holding up her fingers an inch apart. “I found it pretty frightening. It happened two or three times. And I thought, I have to do something about this.”