The Application And Analysis Of The Functional Clothing In The Elderly

Clothing, food, house and transportation are the four basic elements of human existence.With the development of science and technology and the improvement of people’s livingstandard, the functions of clothing are beyond traditional functions, including coveringpeople’s body, protecting our safety, making our appearance more beautiful and so on. Peopleexpect that the functions of clothing are more user-friendly, such as taking care of health,monitoring illness, exchanging information, insulation, anti-static, anti-odor and otherhumanity functions. The functional apparel products are closing to our daily lives from somespecial areas with the help of the assiduous study of professional researchers. Thus, thefunction clothing is no longer elusive. It is more and more closing to ordinary people. Theelderly as a vulnerable group in our current society need to be paid more attention with thedecline of functions of their bodies. Their chances in danger higher than other ages, especiallyfor the sort of slipping and falling accidents, flood, flame and other dangerous issues. What’smore, the results of their hurt must be more serious. In short, the elderly need more caring inour society. China has entered the aging society. Furthermore, the aging rate continues to grow.Faced with such a broaden space for development, Chinese industries of caring the elderly arestill in a very awkward position now. The market of the elderly apparel is still very depressing,not to mention some of the functional clothing designed for the elderly. The problem of howto serve people with the clothing has become an important issue in the21st century, whichdevelops the garment industry to the high-tech industry.The elderly is the basic object of the research. The research considered all aspects of theelderly and combined with materials science, design psychology, ergonomics and othertheoretical knowledge. The research explored and studied the application of the functionalclothing for the elderly. The research analyzed the various types of the functional clothing andtheir corresponding functions. It researched the general characteristics of the elderly. Itfocused on how to apply the important role of the functional clothing to the elderly. Theproject adopted many ways to carry out this research, including reviewing literatures,observation, questionnaires, studying cases, integration and so on. The research will analyze and array all sorts of functional clothing which have the meaningful impact and application tothe elderly. The last but not least, the research has established the design method of thefunctional clothing for the elderly. It provides the reference for the development of thefunctional clothing in future, meanwhile, the research summarized the exploring scope of thefunctional clothing for the elderly.