This week in class we talked about designing clothes for the elders,
and empathic design for older individuals. With aging comes changing
lifestyles, physical capabilities, and sensory capabilities such as
vision, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. When you think of comfort
and choices for elders you have to take into consideration of comfort
for physical, psychological, and social. Also think of choices such as
appearance, independence, daily functioning, and physical comfort,
safety, convenience, and care, cold and warm environments. Challenges
and opportunities such as diabetic peripheral neurothy, stroke,
Alzheimer’s’, Parkinson’s, osteoporosis, Arthritis, and Cataracts.