{"id":27828,"date":"2016-08-02T16:28:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T14:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/?p=27828"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:50:06","slug":"ergonomic-easy-buttons-enhance-seniors-daily-life-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/ergonomic-easy-buttons-enhance-seniors-daily-life-comfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Ergonomic “Easy buttons” enhance seniors’ daily life comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Easy buttons” give seniors’ life comfort a serious boost : these ergonomic buttons are designed to make it easier for both seniors and disabled people to dress daily.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"FashionIt takes seniors three to five times as long to put on a dress shirt<\/h2>\n

As we get on in years, daily gestures that we used to go\u00a0through without a single moment’s thought can suddenly become challenging. Buttoning up your own shirt is one of those : for people whose motor skills are affected by age and disabled people who can’t feel their fingertips, dressing daily can become quite the chore.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Taiwanese designers\u00a0Han Jisook, Tang Wei-Hsiang and\u00a0Tsai Po-An recently undertook an investigation to try and figure out the amount of time needed to put on a shirt as an elderly person. They found that seniors take three to five times as long as their younger counterparts to put on a dress shirt.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Easy buttons” help seniors dress daily<\/h2>\n

\"Easy<\/p>\n

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The three designers then set out to find a solution to this problem, and decided to create an ergonomic button making it easier for the elderly to dress. The “Easy button<\/strong>” is oblong shaped ; one side is thinner than the other and slightly curved to foster a better grip. The other side is concave, to make it easier to insert into the buttonhole.<\/p>\n

The creators received the 2013 Red Dot design award for this project.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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