THROUGH OTHER EYES
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THROUGH OTHER EYES
Jane Barmer
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Ageing Society : Design Challenges
Physical Cognitive
Economic Social /Emotional
Reduced:• Mobility• Sight• Hearing• Dexterity• Touch
Decline in• Memory• Information processing• Numeracy skills
• Changes to income & spending patterns
• Income value erodes over time
• Diminished access to social networks
• Changes in emotional needs / responses
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Human Ageing
UNIVERSAL - everyone ages
PROGRESSIVE - we cannot stop the process
INTRINSIC - it is irreversible / cannot be corrected
we will never be younger than we are today
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Not a Homogenous Group
• Ageing is an individual experience; people age in different ways
• The accumulation of ‘affect’ is dramatically different from one person to another
• People’s response to and ability to cope with the ageing process, differs greatly
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Biological Ageing – how do we age?
HAIR
HEARING
BONES
SKIN / TOUCH
MUSCLE
NERVOUS SYSTEM
URINARY STYSTEM
VISION
SMELL / TASTE
RESPIRATORY
CARDIOVASCULAR
GASTROINTESTINAL
IMMUNE SYSTEM
REPRODUCTIVE
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Aspects of Natural Ageing
Sensory Physical Cognitive
Vision Locomotion
Reach & Stretch
Dexterity
IntellectualFunctioning
Communication
Hearing
Touch
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Impairment, Age & Daily Living Activities
%Dependent
Activity
Age
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Feature Million
With at least one impairment 9.3 Hearing (10 million across ages) 6.3 Lifting, carrying, moving objects 6.0 Mobility 5.7 Limiting long term illness (15 million across ages) 4.3 Arthritis (10 million across ages) 3.3Manual dexterity 2.5Physical coordination 2.2 Memory or concentration 1.7 Sight (2 million across ages) 1.6 Effects of a Stroke (1 million across ages) 0.8No impairment 2.7
12 million UK people of state pension age +
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Cataract 13.7%
Macular Degeneration 16.7%
Glaucoma 5%
Diabetic Retinopathy 3%
Normal Vision 61.6%
Source: www.nei.nih.goc/sims/sims/htm
Vision – 4 Common Disorders in Later Life
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De – Brief Session
Strongest Impression / emotion?
Hardest part? WHY?
What "limited" you the most?
What “helped”? HOW?
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• something you would like changed
• why do you want to change this?
• what steps might progress this?
Inclusive Approaches
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Source: RNIB
Text & Fonts
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CANCEL
Clear
ENTER
Cancel
Enter
Colour Contrast
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Know the opportunities & challenges demographic change presents to
providers of products & services
Recognise a range of physical & sensory changes that affect
the capability of people in later life
Identify practical solutions for improving product & service provision for
the ageing consumer marketplace
Outcomes
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Inclusive Design & Capability
Source Benkztin & Juhlins, inclusive design: design for the whole population (2003)
Disabled
Reduced Capability
Fully Capable
Inclusive Design:
“Design of mainstream products
and/or services that are
accessible to, and usable by,
people with the widest range of
abilities within the widest range
of situations without the need
for special adaptation or design”
British Standard 7000 – 6: 2005
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Cognitive Decline
Source: Disconnected Mind Project University of Edinburgh