As part of their training for geriatric care, local nursing students have to put on special shoes that throw off their sense of balance and make walking across a mock apartment slow and dangerous work.

I’ve been in that lab! While wearing those crazy shoes you have to carefully navigate rugs, clothes, pillows, or anything on the floor—and steps, doors, or furniture suddenly become death traps!

Maybe you live with that reality every day, but for most of the nurses in training, wearing shoes that turn an ordinary apartment into an obstacle course gives them a whole new way of seeing the world… read more