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Article: GET MORE OUT OF LIFE WITH LATEST SOLUTIONS FOR ... MOBILITY.(Features)
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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MOBILITY equipment isn't what it used to be. As we've seen with the recent Philippe Starck reality series Design For Life, product designers are busily scratching their creative heads to find inventive new solutions for everything from how to help people get around more easily (and still look cool), to how to enjoy a cuppa safely if you're visually impaired.
The hidden story behind the recent improvements in mobility and disability equipment lies in soaring birth rates during the post-war baby boom, and in the fact that medical advances are allowing people to live far longer.
With nearly 12 million pensioners in the UK - almost one in five of the ...