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Kitchen living in later life: Exploring ergonomic problems, coping strategies and design solutions
journal contribution
posted on 2016-08-18, 10:33 authored by Martin MaguireMartin Maguire, S. Peace, Colette Nicolle, Russell MarshallRussell Marshall, Ruth Sims, J. Percival, Clare LawtonThe kitchen is an important area in the home serving many purposes both functional and social. It is central to enabling people to stay within their own homes in their later life. As part of a detailed study of ‘past’ and ‘present’ kitchen living, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 48 older people about their current kitchen and how well it met their needs. It was found that personal problems with reaching, bending, dexterity and sight were more likely to be experienced with increasing age while for specific tasks, ironing and cleaning created the most difficulty. The paper reports on coping strategies and simple innovations made by the participants to address the problems they experienced. A challenge for kitchen designers, manufacturers and installers is to think in terms of kitchens that are more
flexible and adaptable to people’s changing needs.
History
Published in
International Journal of DesignVolume
8Issue
1Pages
73 - 91Citation
MAGUIRE, M. ...et al., 2014. Kitchen living in later life: Exploring ergonomic problems, coping strategies and design solutions. International Journal of Design, 8(1), pp. 73-91.Publisher
© The Authors. Published by the International Journal of Design SolutionsVersion
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Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/Acceptance date
2013-07-05Publication date
2014-04-30Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by International Journal of Design Solutions under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Unported Licence (CC BY-NC-ND). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ISSN
1991-3761eISSN
1994-036XPublisher version
Language
- en