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: This study aims to develop protective pants to relieve impact from falls and to present basic data for the devel-opment. The survey results are as follows; First, 45% of the respondents were in their 60s and 55% of them were in theirover 70s and older. Also, 64% of them have fallen once for the past year and 36% of them have fallen twice or more. Theolder they were, the more there were those who have fallen twice or more. This indicated the older people has expe-rienced more fall accidents again after a initial fall accident. Second, as per accident situations, the survey showed thatfall accidents happened the most in the winter and in the afternoon (12-18 pm). Also, it happened on a street mostly andthey were wearing sneakers or hiking boots when they got a hurt slipped in a front or side by missing their step in a walk.The injury areas are mostly knee and ankle. They had the bruises or a sprain in their knee and ankle mostly. The rateof bone fracture was 19.5%. Therefore, the protection area to falls in lower body is the knee. But hip and hip joint shouldbe protected with knee as well because those are usually be broken when it is damaged. Third, approximately 80% ofthose who were hospitalized for treatment had surgery. Patients who had surgery were rather in their over 70s than intheir 60s. The older they were, the more serious their fracture was. The period of hospital or outpatient treatment is morethan three weeks in many cases. They responded their health got worse after falls. Aftereffects of accidents were physicaldiscomfort, anxiety and medical costs. Falls to the old makes physical damage, psychological damage, which cause reducedphysical activity and the increased cost of health care with economic losses. So it results on a negative impact on the lifeof the old. Fourth, elderly females were rarely aware of impact protective clothing and they have never purchased suchclothing. For impact protective pants, the major consideration was suitable design for their body types. They liked casualstyle with front or side pockets and simple designs without any patterns or decorations. As per pants materials, theyresponded that they need functionality, activity and elasticity. Among the functional points, insulation of cloths are con-sidered importantly, so the heat reservance of material in the impact protective pants should be considered carefully.Key words :fall(), fall experienced(), elderly women(), impact protective pants()

Basic Study on the Development of Impact Protective Pants and Falls of Elderly Women