How to make Your Home Elderly Proof: Part 1 - Making Your Home User-friendly

 

How to make Your Home Elderly Proof:

Part 1 - Making Your Home User-friendly

Interior design is meant to increase the quality of our life. Thus planning for a renovation without considering the needs of the elderly members will be detrimental. Unfortunately, I have seen too many young couples who are too caught up with constructing their “dream” home that they have sadly sidelined the needs of their aged parents or grandparents.

In fact, I am very disheartened to see that so much emphasis is placed in the look and feel of the home design that they forgot that a home is ultimately where our loved ones live in. Don't these couple know that their aged family members have feelings and specific needs too? To me, it is ironic that a house is so stylishly and modernly furnished and yet, our loved ones faced difficulty living in it.

Why is making a home elderly proof so important?

In addition, these couple fail to realize is that by making their home elderly proof also means that their senior family members get to maintain their independence and this means a whole world to them. In fact, the elderly prided their autonomy very much and want to move around the house with minimal assistance.

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Home Ergonomics

Ergonomics is the study of designing equipment and devices that fit the human body, its movements, and its cognitive abilities. 

The International Ergonomics Association defines ergonomics as follows:
    Ergonomics (or human factors) is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the profession that applies theory, principles, data and methods to design in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance.

(Source: wiki)

Similar to workplace ergonomics, home ergonomics is the science and study of designing tools and furniture which are ideal for home occupants in order to optimize their well-being and overall performance.

Thus, here are a few ergonomic designs which you can consider:

• Ergonomic Chair (Aeron work stool wins Attendees' Choice Award from the National Ergonomics Conference and Exposition 2006)
• Ergonomic Sofa (How To Know If Your Sofa Is Ergonomic)
• Ergonomic Mattress and Pillow (Ergonomic Pillow: Memory foam, Body or Contour Pillows)
• Ergonomic Kitchen (Kitchen Work Triangle & Ergonomics Lighting for the Kitchen)
• Ergonomic Tools (Top Ergonomic Cooking Tools found on the market, The Ergonomic Knife, Garden Tools, mouse and keyboard)
• Ergonomic Storeroom 

Application of ergonomic should not stop once we leave our workplace. In fact, we should pay close attention to such so that we can improve our well-being and overall performance. :)

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Basic Furniture Design 3D design tools

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Furniture Rendering Tools

If you intend to customize your furniture, here is a couple of useful furniture design tools that you can consider:

Homia PC Applications

PolyBoard

IKEA Home Planner Bedroom 

SketchList

Hope you find them useful. :)

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