Innovative design of Transformed Assistive Tableware (TAT) for the elderly
H. C. Y. Liu
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AbstractTransformed assistive tableware (TAT) is an innovative tool, which not only does facilitate the convenience of eating for the elderly, but also is useful for people who bring it out. At the same time, TAT is a storage to save the assistive tableware, including chopsticks and a spoon (Chang, 2007). However, there are few considerations for designing the figures, colors, or transformed storage for assistive tableware. The problem of lacking innovative design of the TAT negatively impacts the elder people taking food, as well as the urgent need of handicapped people. A proper design of TAT, regarding its figures, should manifests the users’ noble tastes and brings them in vogue. At the same time, TAT is also beneficial to the elderly to use in public, without embarrassed feeling of using conventional assistive tableware. Even though assistive tableware are usually discussed and designed by geriatric technologists, there are a few designs cover the convenience and transformed storage of assistive tableware (Ho, 2021). The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to explore a suitable design of TAT, which can eliminate the inconvenience of taking, using, and saving problems of a conventional assistive tableware for older adults.Keywords: transformed assistive tableware (TAT), universal design, the elderly
H. C. Y. Liu (2022). Innovative design of Transformed Assistive Tableware (TAT) for the elderly. Gerontechnology, 21(s),1-1
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2022.21.s.719.pp7