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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Elderly Friendly Environment


This is my video on the elderly challenge. It is a 361 degrees view of the whole 'house'. The main features are:
The low bed
The low bed allows elderly to get on and off their beds easily and not require any strenuous movement.

The doors
There are doors which connect all the rooms together so that an elderly person could easily move from place, taking the shortest path, rather then having to walk through the other rooms to get to the kitchen.

The toilet handrails
There are multiple handrails to allow the elderly to grab in case of emergency, like slipping on wet ground. These bars also can be used as supports when the elderly is moving around.

The big toilet floor mat
This big toilet floor mat is to have more space occupied so that more area would be less slippery but also not like carpets so that not so much washing is required.

The low sinks
Both toilet and kitchen sinks are made low to allow easy reach for the elderly. As some elderly may also drop things, these low sinks prevent slightly more the event of dropping items, such as plates.

The somewhat simple cooking stove
This cooking stove is quite simple so that it is easy for elderly to use.

The 55inch LED TV
This is so that elderly with short or maybe also long sightedness can watch TV without straining their eyes that much compared to a small and blur TV.

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