To protect the sleep quality and home quality of the elderly, national standards for aging-friendly home textiles are released
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The State Administration for Market Regulation approved the release of the national standard "Guidelines for Aging-Adaptable Design of Home Textiles", which proposes design requirements from four aspects: safety, comfort, convenience, and functionality to help the elderly enjoy a safer, more comfortable, and more convenient high-quality home life.
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Why It Matters
The level of aging-friendly design of home textiles is directly related to the elderly’s sleep quality and home life quality.
Reporters learned today that the State Administration for Market Regulation approved the release of the national standard "Guidelines for Aging-Adaptable Design of Home Textiles", which covers a wide range of home textiles such as bedding, towels, and fabric products. The level of aging-friendly design of home textiles is directly related to the elderly’s sleep quality and home life quality. This standard combines the physiological, psychological and behavioral characteristics of the elderly and puts forward design requirements from four aspects: safety, comfort, convenience and functionality, helping the elderly to enjoy a safer, more comfortable and more convenient high-quality home life.
Strengthen security protection. In view of the elderly's declining physical functions and relatively weakened daily activities and protective abilities, the design of safety protection and health and hygiene indicators is given top priority, and the safety and health risks of the elderly when used at home are reduced from the design link.
Improve comfort experience. Focusing on the actual needs of the elderly for sleep quality and home comfort, we provide design guidance for sensory comfort such as heat and moisture, touch, and pressure, and promote products to be more skin-friendly, breathable, and soothing, so that the elderly can use them with peace of mind and sleep comfortably.
Highlight convenience and ease of use. Focusing on the elderly's weakened ability to operate independently and their increased need for convenient care, we advocate product structures that are easy to put on and take off, easy to disassemble and assemble, easy to wash, and easy-to-understand instructions for use, making it easier for the elderly to use and more convenient for caregivers to take care of.
Focus on functionality and practicality. In response to the actual needs of the elderly who have relatively weak immunity and some elderly people who are bedridden for a long time, design suggestions are put forward for the antibacterial, anti-mite, antifouling, waterproof and other properties of the product to protect the home health of the elderly from the source.
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