Barcelona Design Week 2010: Designs For Dementia Make It Easier To Eat (Photos)

Plate with high-lipped profile helps push food onto the spoon. Image Credit: “Design for Dementia”, Gregor Timlin & Nic Rysenbry, Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre Around 700,000 people in the UK have dementia, over a third of which live in care homes, according to the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre which focuses on people-centered design research. Eating and drinking, getting dressed and other daily actions become a critical issue when people are affected by dementia (a serious loss of cognitive ability). Independence… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Barcelona Design Week 2010: Designs For Dementia Make It Easier To Eat (Photos)

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