This device puts you in the shoes of an elderly or disabled person.

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B. Guigou

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"Once you've put on the wetsuit, we'll take you up a flight of stairs, have a drink of water, eat, or even make you walk… To talk about it, you have to try.

»Yvan Guiraud, manager of Adhap (home help, hygiene and assistance to people) of Rosny-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) welcomes me this Monday and announces the color.

On the program: presentation and test of an aging suit.

“She's almost 10 years old, but she deals with 90% of the subject.

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The subject ?

Understand, feel, the hindrance that a disabling disease or the wear and tear of a body of 80 or even 90 years represents, with the aim of "sensitizing our staff but especially the families of our clients and their loved ones to the effects of aging".


A conversation about Covid and government action later, I ditch my (relatively) new 1990s carcass to sit in an old, 1930s-style model.

A gripping experience

And it starts with the sight.

Helmet over my eyes my vision becomes yellowish and above all very limited.

Close one eye, cut off half of your remaining field of vision.

This is where I am.

They put a helmet on my ears, gloves, a harness, knee pads and rigid elbow pads.

“Imagine you want to go get the bread,” says Yvan Guiraud.

There, I find myself in a real handicap situation.

I couldn't fold my arms up to my chest to button my shirt, I couldn't bend down to tie shoes.

I run up the stairs.

I manage to mount them, but slowly.

Always so diminished, I decided to regain my strength and start the breakfast: a madeleine and a glass of water.

I put my butt as best I could on the chair, grab my drink with both hands and ... What a pain!

I put my turtle neck forward to drink and cut my madeleine as best I can.

Once at the table, hard to hear the other people in the room, I have to choose between staring at my plate, my left or my right.

Before I rejuvenate, Yvan Guiraud makes me try on one last object, gloves that simulate the physical consequences of Parkinson's disease using electrical impulses.

My hands are numb, shake and hurt.

“This is what a person can experience who, for example, has forgotten to give their daily treatment.

A last gripping experience before leaving the premises, happy to have regained all my health.

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