When you live with people that are more than 70 years old you start to think about their needs, when you see that all the things that could help the elders are located in medical stores you start to think that maybe this is not good…
The products for elders usually located at medical stores are lacking of emotional design. It's difficult to understand why people think that elders are people with a disease, because old people aren't sick people.
85% of the information that we received comes from the eyes and 10% by the sense of hearing, almost every activity and mobility are realized by combining those senses, this information lead us to think what happen when we reach the 75 years old and our sense of hearing and seeing are decreased?
It's necessary to start to thinking about gerontodesign because after the 60 years old, the people start to lose their physical abilities. We have been saying that disabled people are not elders and elders are not disabled people, maybe sometimes elders are disabled and disables are elders, but not always… Is because of that, that gerontodesign must be created and started.
Caroline Günther -Luckow, Dipl.-Ing. Architect,M.Sc (2011) tell us her opinion about this topic in this way:
"In my opinion it is essential to develop new housing concepts for the elderly as our present situation is not up to date. The aging population is growing older in a different way. Expectations towards life as well as the standard of life have changed. In Europe the population is getting older. The reasons are a very much improved health care, better financial situation and the personal aim to stay in form longer. Generally I believe we need to consider the emotional aspect far more and integrate this into our planning routine."
In the next post we will talking about demographics reasons….
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The products for elders usually located at medical stores are lacking of emotional design. It's difficult to understand why people think that elders are people with a disease, because old people aren't sick people.
85% of the information that we received comes from the eyes and 10% by the sense of hearing, almost every activity and mobility are realized by combining those senses, this information lead us to think what happen when we reach the 75 years old and our sense of hearing and seeing are decreased?
It's necessary to start to thinking about gerontodesign because after the 60 years old, the people start to lose their physical abilities. We have been saying that disabled people are not elders and elders are not disabled people, maybe sometimes elders are disabled and disables are elders, but not always… Is because of that, that gerontodesign must be created and started.
Caroline Günther -Luckow, Dipl.-Ing. Architect,M.Sc (2011) tell us her opinion about this topic in this way:
"In my opinion it is essential to develop new housing concepts for the elderly as our present situation is not up to date. The aging population is growing older in a different way. Expectations towards life as well as the standard of life have changed. In Europe the population is getting older. The reasons are a very much improved health care, better financial situation and the personal aim to stay in form longer. Generally I believe we need to consider the emotional aspect far more and integrate this into our planning routine."
In the next post we will talking about demographics reasons….
:)
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