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Envisage a feasible design or designs so as to enable the 'bathing experience' to be as easy and enjoyable as possible for an 'elderly' person.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF MANUFACTURING AND MECAHNICAL ENGINEERING LEVEL 4 MASTERS PROJECT 2000 TITLE: - Bathroom Solutions For The Elderly - A 'Better' Bathtub? STUDENT HAME: - Shimon Kabir Siddiqui DEGREE PROGRAMME: - MEng Manufacturing Engineering with German SUPERVISOR: - Dr L. Nayak (Director, Centre for Applied Gerontology) MODULE CODE: - MMEM406 (0406122) Aim The aim of this project is to try to envisage a feasible design or designs so as to enable the 'bathing experience' to be as easy and enjoyable as possible for an 'elderly' person. Why is this project important? The importance of the growing proportion of 'elderly' people as part of the UK population is becoming more and more apparent all the time as the NHS is realising in terms of the shortage of available beds The initial research shows that bathroom products manufacturers are not in tune with this increasing demand. Elderly people often experience combinations of minor impairments that in sum create...
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