Description
The SD&C Senior Suit ® gamma was developed to sensitize the public for the problems of ageing as a special low cost model. This age simulation suit simulates the following effects:
- Déficience auditive aux hautes fréquences
- Détérioration de la vision
- Changement de la vision des couleurs
- Limite de la vision périphérique
- Limitation des mouvements de la tête
- Réduction de la force musculaire du corps
- Perte de force dans les bras
- Perte de mobilité du coude
- Détérioration de la sensibilité du bout des doigts
- Contraction des articulations du poignet
- Raidissement des articulations du genou
- Perte de force dans les muscles des jambes
The simulation results in combined effects such as impaired coordination, less balance, less overall control, deteriorated grip and handling of objects, uncertainty and communication problems, so that so that everyday tasks like counting money or operating a vending machine directly reveal the typical problems of getting older. Several hundred companies, universities, hospitals and retirement homes, assisted-living centers, government facilities and schools all over Europe have used the age simulation suits from SD&C to educate people on the problems of the elderly.
