Transgenerational Design: Products for an Aging Population

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The world's population is rapidly growing older, and it is important to create new products that are easily used by people throughout their lifetimes - whatever their ability. Transgenerational Design addresses this need by exploring product design that enhances the quality of life for users of all ages. This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to product design that bridges gaps between designers and consumers, scientist and service professionals, young and old. He debunks myths about aging, showing how many problems with products are, in fact, problems for all age groups. Throughout, the author focuses on practical solutions to design challenges, helping designers to avoid discrimination against both age and
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Overview

The world's population is rapidly growing older, and it is important to create new products that are easily used by people throughout their lifetimes - whatever their ability. Transgenerational Design addresses this need by exploring product design that enhances the quality of life for users of all ages. This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to product design that bridges gaps between designers and consumers, scientist and service professionals, young and old. He debunks myths about aging, showing how many problems with products are, in fact, problems for all age groups. Throughout, the author focuses on practical solutions to design challenges, helping designers to avoid discrimination against both age and ability. Transgenerational Design sensitizes readers to the realities of aging by exploring changes in abilities that occur throughout one's lifetime. It explains how to make intelligent decisions during the design, production, marketing, promotion, and selection of consumer products used by an aging population with a wide range of abilities. Readers will gain the specialized knowledge they need to understand common functional limitations including sensory changes, balance and falling, dysmobility, memory and confusion, and how they inhibit independence; develop products that support and extend independence by accommodating human limitations in vision, hearing, touch, dexterity, and mobility; and create product "microenvironments" that enhance the overall quality of life for people of all ages and abilities. More than 140 full-color illustrations offer exemplary designs ranging from kitchen utensils to walking shoes to personal hygiene systems. High-quality photographs present a collection of transgenerational products used in living environments (including furniture and lighting), healthcare, cooking and eating, sports and recreation, leisure activities, transportation, personal care and hygiene, home maintenance, and information pressing and commu

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A brilliant, beautiful guide that sensitizes readers to the realities of aging by exploring changes in abilities that occur throughout one's lifetime, and explains how to make intelligent decisions during the design, production, marketing, promotion, and selection of consumer products used by an aging population with a wide range of abilities. Some 140 color photographs present exemplary designs ranging from kitchen utensils to walking shoes to personal hygiene systems. All designs are described in terms of how well they accommodate human limitations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780471284697
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 2/28/1994
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 260
  • Series: Design and Graphic Design Series
  • Product dimensions: 8.83 (w) x 11.33 (h) x 0.95 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Pt. 1 The New Centurians
Ch. 1 How Young is Old? 3
Ch. 2 The Tilting Balance 12
Ch. 3 A Market of Silver 21
Pt. 2 Human Aging; A Lifetime of Change
Ch. 4 A Spectrum of Capabilities 31
Ch. 5 Sensory Changes 41
Ch. 6 Dysmobility 52
Ch. 7 Balance and Falling 57
Ch. 8 Memory and Confusion 64
Pt. 3 Extending Independence
Ch. 9 Freedom to Choose 70
Ch. 10 Keys to Compatibility 83
Ch. 11 Cultivating Independence 90
Ch. 12 The Transgenerational Design Promise 101
Pt. 4 The Triumph of Conscience
Health Care 130
Cooking and Eating 144
Leisure, Sports, and Recreation 148
Information and Communication 154
Transportation 164
Furniture and Lighting 167
Living Environments 174
Personal Care and Hygiene 179
Appendix A: A Case Study: A Bathroom for Elderly Users 192
Appendix B: A Glossary on Transgenerational Design 216
Appendix C: Gerontology and Aging-Related Programs and Centers 229
Appendix D: National Association of State Units on Aging (NASUA): Membership Directory as of November 1992 231
Appendix E: Related Professional and Nonprofit Organizations and Resources 236
Appendix F: Geriatric Education Centers (GEC) 239
Appendix G: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 243
Index 257

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