The aged, is a group of people who always be neglected. With the development of the society, the ever increasing population of old people cause senile furniture an urgent issue for furniture industry. We are focusing on how to position senile furniture, psychological and physical factors on the designing of senile furniture, so as to design the furniture that satisfies the aged.
There are 600 million people who are over 60 all over the world at present. 60 countries’ aged people have taken up 10% of their country or more, we have step into aging society. Chinese aged people are over 160 million, and it still keeps increasing at the speed of 8 million annually. Experts predict, the population of the aged people will take up one third of the total population by 2050. At the same time, with the raising of both substance and education, their consumption concepts have been changed greatly. As for senile furniture design, we should research their psychology, physics and living habits, only in this way can we work out senile furniture that satisfy different levels of old people.