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Today, many old people don’t recognize themselves as members of the group of ”the elderly”.

Ageing, elderly and design ITU, Köpenhamn, 071108 Bodil Jönsson , professor of rehab eng, Certec , LTH. Today, many old people don’t recognize themselves as members of the group of ”the elderly”. And we, born in the 1940:s, we do not understand anything – this is absolutely not about us.

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Today, many old people don’t recognize themselves as members of the group of ”the elderly”.

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  1. Ageing, elderly and designITU, Köpenhamn, 071108Bodil Jönsson, professor of rehab eng, Certec, LTH

  2. Today, many old people don’t recognize themselves as members of the group of ”the elderly”.

  3. And we, born in the 1940:s, we do not understand anything – this is absolutely not about us

  4. Precisely this is why it is exciting to work with ”Elderly and design” With the possible effects With a direction

  5. At least in the Swedish context right now, there are two obvious pitfalls:

  6. The one is about the elderly as just another new consumption group to exploit…

  7. Without the necessary insight that this is about people with their experiences and their expectations.

  8. The annual rings and the interaction between the annual rings make a huge difference.

  9. A senior is not just older. She is also younger… The earlier ego:s are still there. Inside. And of course, one has the expectations to be able to catch the interconnections and the interrelationships between the new artifacts and technology and the material worlds experienced in the past.

  10. The second pitfall is the image of an abstract elderly-wave for the younger to carry and to get borne down by…

  11. I. e. ”Warning for the elderly” – but is such a foolish time spirit worth any notice?! Yes, it is – because it might be self fulfilling.

  12. Entire systems of thought infrastructure might distort the attention.

  13. And TTT, Thoughts Take Time!Nothing steers a development as ruthless as the infrastructure of the thoughts Thus, changes in the thought infrastructure have a strong potential to influence the future.

  14. But you have to exercise your world of imagination and its relevancy and compare it with the end users’ experienced needs, wishes and dreams.

  15. After all, an aging society is nothing but a marvellous success story – and it continues to develop. What about 130 years as life expectancy?

  16. Medical and social and technological advancements influence life expectancy But if you examine what kind of life, what happiness, what dignity, then the influence of the design of the everyday world around us gets obvious. It is the experienced world from the inside that makes a difference, not as in the figure the separate factors applied from the outside.

  17. This is more about the active and acting individual than the observed or treated. And it is not the technology per se that makes the difference but the technology-in-use.

  18. The artifacts play a much more important role than is usually thought of.

  19. Human – Nonhuman – Human. Human – Human – Nonhuman. Artifact-Nonartifact-Artifact…

  20. Your perception of other humans and systems and technology ought to have much in common.

  21. But to be active (in one’s own way) as old is not necessarily the same as to be active as young… To have the right to reflect upon one’s life?

  22. You can not be sure that everyone wants to have a support for the memory when the memory fails? Neither an enhancement of the planning ability. Etc.

  23. Also the reversed questions ought to be asked: What if you in your 90:s get into the ZPD for developing the new skill to be calm and relaxed in a way that you have never been able to before. What about design aiming at supporting the learning process for this new skill?

  24. What about design for processes in the NOW for people with dementia?

  25. What about eliminating as many frightening sounds as possible? Hair dryers ans stylers …

  26. Many possibilities: • Change to another more silent hair dryer • Or start considering the whole sound environment?

  27. You might make it a principle to design for a sound environment as free from unexpected noises as possible.

  28. Cf the report ”Visa vid Vigs ängar, en rapport från ett äldreboende med själ” by the young industrial designer Anna Persson.In only 3 monthsshe could catchboth some details and somepreliminar principles

  29. She brought areas together:

  30. From parasols to support for the legs:

  31. Everyday pictures on sustainable material, for instance textiles?

  32. Passive exercises (vibration) for better muscle functions?

  33. Please go to Äldre och design to find out more about what we have done and do aroundmacula degenerationfurnitures and interiorsuntraditional TV-usagepictures as communication toolsVR as exercising tools…

  34. You will find not only parrots but also cameleont solutions. And some real core (poodle) solutions. Surely, we make a lot of mistakes – but we think we avoid the very worst through a tight interaction with old people themselves, all the time.

  35. If not, you might like Rousseau make the mistake to believe that ”In the realm of the blind people, the one-eyed is the king”

  36. Finally, we search for consequencies of knowledge as much as we search for the knowledge itself. So let me end this short introduction through telling you about Carin Boalt: ”After all I have never:…” ”Neither have I ever:…” ”But I have always:…”

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