Senior Friendly Features Guide: What Does Age have to do with Product Design?

The short answer is everything and nothing.

There is no exact age when one needs to purchase elder friendly products, but statistically speaking, there is a strong correlation with age. Some of us have eyesight that starts to fade around the age of forty-five. Others keep their perfect 20/20 well into their eighties. The older one gets, especially after one reaches the age of sixty-five, the more likely he/she is inclined to purchase a product with one or more elder friendly features.

Instead of automatically filling your household with elder friendly everything after a birthday, it is important to critically asses the relationship between perception, cognition, mobility and bio-mechanics and the features on a product they interact with. If your arthritis acts up every time you try to use a standard computer keyboard, and then by all means, buy an ergonomically designed keyboard.

Just remember understand the features you are need (and those you don