With the push of a button, a perfectly healthy 34-year-old museum-goer named Ugo Dumont was transformed into a confused 85-year-old man with cataracts, glaucoma and a ringing in his ears that simulated tinnitus.Dumont had volunteered at Liberty Science Centre in New Jersey, in the US, on Tuesday to don a computer-controlled exoskeleton that can be remotely manipulated to debilitate joints, vision and hearing. Headphones muffled his hearing while goggles left him with only peripheral vision, as occurs with macular degeneration, while the suit's joints were adjusted to simulate the stiffness of rheumatoid arthritis.The 18kg suit also gave Dumont a taste of the weight-gain people typically experience as they age."Wow," Dumont gasped as he struggled to walk on a treadmill facing a video titled Walk on the Beach. His heart raced from 81 beats per minute to 100 as the staff cranked up the ailments."I don't know how you can focus on the water. You just want to be in bed!" said Dumont, a photo agent who lives in Brooklyn.The Genworth Aging Experience is a travelling show created by Genworth Financial Inc, an insurance company, in partnership with Applied Minds, a design and engineering company that allows museum visitors to feel first-hand the effects of ageing.Genworth "brand ambassador" Candace Hammer said: "In our culture, we revere youth and beauty, so this is opening up the channels to have the 'let's talk' conversation. It's not shameful that you should need care."Robert Richards, 74, a retired publishing executive from Madison, New Jersey, said he now understood why his older golfing partners moved slowly."I'll be more patient when I'm waiting for them to swing," he said...