Kathy Doyle fell on the street in Manhattan several times over the years. Usually, she’d end up at Lenox Hill Hospital, disoriented and upset. Then she had a stroke. She kept falling, often injuring herself and scaring her family.
So in 2023, Doyle, now 81, moved to a luxury assisted-living home a few blocks away from her longtime home on the Upper East Side. At the Bristal, residents can opt in to use a high-tech fall-detection system that employs a motion sensor to monitor gait, posture and patterns of movement that could portend a fall. If a…
