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Design for the elderly

  • The living room of the refurbished Stock Orchard Street by Sarah Wigglesworth in London

    Sarah Wigglesworth future-proofs self-designed straw bale house in London

    Architect Sarah Wigglesworth has carried out an extensive upgrade and retrofit of the influential Stock Orchard Street home in London to improve its energy performance and age-proof its interiors. More

    Lizzie Crook | 22 December 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Hack Care is an IKEA-style catalogue of DIY adjustments for dementia-friendly homes

    Lekker Architects and Lanzavecchia + Wai have designed an IKEA-inspired manual filled with tips and tricks on how to hack the Swedish company's products to better serve people living with dementia. More

    Natashah Hitti | 15 November 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Dotyk by Dmytro Nikiforchuk

    Dotyk by Dmytro Nikiforchuk is a range of sensory sex toys for older people

    Design graduate Dmytro Nikiforchuk has created a range of sex toys for the elderly, including a tickling thimble and an ear trumpet for listening to a lover's heartbeat. More

    India Block | 23 July 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Eyra kitchen utensils

    Eyra kitchen utensils by Eyra and Sebastian Conran Associates

    Dezeen Showroom: Eyra has collaborated with Sebastian Conran Associates to design a range of ergonomic kitchen utensils suited to people with limited wrist mobility. More

    Dezeen staff | 30 June 2020
  • York St John interior design students reimagine spaces for the elderly

    York St John interior design students reimagine spaces for the elderly

    As part of their VDF school show, graduates from York St John University are presenting interior designs for the elderly, which tackle loneliness and make life easier for those dealing with dementia or visual impairments. More

    Dezeen staff | 11 June 2020
  • Bayit Balev by Studio Amit

    Amit Studio designs elderly housing with "sense of vitality" in Israel

    Tel Aviv's Amit Studio has opted for colourful details to add flair to this retirement housing development in Israel. More

    Bridget Cogley | 2 February 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Lex by Astride Bionix

    Lex by Astride is a wearable chair that allows its user to sit anywhere

    A group of engineers has created this exoskeleton that allows elderly users to enjoy activities like fishing, commuting and golfing for extended periods. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 17 October 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Belle Vue housing by Morris + Company for Pegasus Life

    Morris + Company clads Hampstead retirement home in modulated brick

    Morris + Company has completed a retirement living scheme with a bevelled brick facade for developer Pegasus Life in Hampstead, London. More

    Jon Astbury | 2 September 2019 | Leave a comment
  • ACDF builds Panorama retirement home for "sophisticated seniors" on outskirts of Montreal

    Montreal firm ACDF Architecture has designed a 30-storey tower to accommodate elderly housing in Quebec featuring interiors that are more akin to a boutique hotel. More

    Bridget Cogley | 26 August 2019 | Leave a comment
  • SilviaBo housing by BoKlok

    IKEA and Queen of Sweden adapt modular BoKlok housing for the elderly

    IKEA and Skanska are collaborating with the Queen of Sweden on an offshoot of their modular BoKlok housing that will meet the needs of the elderly and people with dementia. More

    Lizzie Crook | 20 August 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Elena Tamburini's Filotea objects encourage affection in old age

    Italian designer Elena Tamburini has created a collection of four everyday objects that aim to facilitate affection in elderly individuals and couples. More

    Natashah Hitti | 15 July 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Song House by AZL Architects

    AZL Architects wraps wheelchair ramp around multi-generational house

    AZL Architects has completed Song House, a concrete five-bedroom house adapted to the needs of its elderly and infirm occupants in the rural village of Nansong, China. More

    Semi Han | 8 July 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Wildernesse Mews by Morris+Company

    Morris + Company completes Wildernesse Mews retirement homes in historic Kent estate

    Morris + Company has staggered a terrace of brick houses for the elderly within the grounds of a 17th century mansion in Sevenoaks, Kent.  More

    Lizzie Crook | 4 March 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Elderly Care Centre by Nuno Piedade Alexandre

    Projecting windows "distort the facades" of Portuguese care home

    Nuno Piedade Alexandre has completed a black extension to an elderly care centre in the municipality of Ponte de Sor, Portugal, which is covered with protruding windows. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 23 February 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Blancafort care home by Guillem Carrera Arquitecte

    Guillem Carrera's care home in northern Spain encourages residents to socialise

    Architect Guillem Carrera has completed an environmentally friendly elderly care home and day centre on a wedge-shaped plot in the Spanish village of Blancafort. More

    Ali Morris | 14 September 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Subscription cookery kit is designed to help elderly women socialise

    Subscription cookery kit is designed to help elderly women socialise

    Central Saint Martins' graduate Magda Sabatowska has devised a cooking kit to help isolated elderly female residents of housing estates in Poland socialise with their neighbours. More

    Ali Morris | 18 July 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Walumba Aged Care Center by Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects

    Iredale Pedersen Hook creates Walumba Elders Centre for flood-hit Australian aboriginal community

    A+Awards: a 2016 Architizer A+Award was bestowed upon this retirement home in Western Australia, designed by Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects for an aboriginal community affected by devastating floods. More

    Dan Howarth | 27 March 2017 | Leave a comment
  • DRDH and adVVT complete elderly home in Belgium featuring pared-back finishes and open-air courtyards

    DRDH Architects and Architecten de Vylder Vinck Tallieu have built an apartment complex and social centre for elderly people in Aarschot, Belgium, featuring simple materials, communal courtyards and few bold splashes of colour. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 27 March 2017 | 8 comments
  • Amazin Apartments

    Concept apartment by Future Facility gives older residents "revolutionary domestic independence"

    This installation at London's Design Museum strips household appliances back to their basics to make operation easier for an ageing population. More

    Alice Morby | 25 January 2017 | 11 comments
  • Yves Béhar's Aura Power Clothing helps the elderly with mobility

    These responsive garments by Yves Béhar's studio Fuseproject feature "electric muscles" that assist elderly wearers to walk, stand up and climb stairs. More

    Alice Morby | 12 January 2017 | 5 comments
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