Design for All

Demographics

A combination of reductions in infant mortality, low birth rates, and increasing longevity, is restructuring populations across the world. By 2020, one in five of EU population will be aged 60 or over. By 2050 those aged 65-84 will number 1.3 billion globally.

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Can design enhance longer lives?

This is a discussion of the physiological changes that can happen over time as people age and how the designed world can either further disable people or enhance their lives.

Disability free life - how design interventions can reduce the impact of impairments.

A job for life - how the need to continue to work will lead to a requirement for a differently designed workplace.

Reference: Coleman R (2001) Living longer: the new context for design. Design Council, London
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