He Broke His Back

My father-in-law has a problem with his back, I think he broke it or something. We have always been reminding him to be careful because at 95 his bones are brittle. He is hard headed at times and I can understand why. He's used to hard life and being "lazy" is just not in his bones. Now he is wearing back braces and he is somewhat used to it already. I remember the first few days where he's really argue with us because he feels uncomfortable with it. Now we don't need to remind him to wear it. It gets to be automatic whenever he wakes up. Hopefully he doesn't get to wear it that long.