Research On Visual Communication Design For Alzheimer’s Disease Science Popularization

At present,China’s population aging process is severe,with 267 million people over the age of 60.The issue of aging is more urgent and complex than in developed countries,and the scale of development is still expanding.The aging population has become a global public health and safety issue,and the health issues of the elderly have become more prominent contradictions.Alzheimer’s disease is very common among the elderly population,and society and families should have given it sufficient attention.However,the Chinese public’s awareness of the disease is generally low,with low patient visits and treatment rates,which has led to many public health and safety issues.From the perspective of humanistic care,aiming at the Alzheimer’s disease group and caregiver group,this paper takes the current severe aging problem as the entry point,adopts observation,offline unstructured interview,online qualitative interview research,questionnaire and other research methods,and combines service design thinking to explore how to present boring and difficult to understand content in a form that is easy for people to understand through visual communication design.In design practice,considering how to use the power of design to indirectly influence the public’s understanding of the disease and improve the health awareness of disease prevention and treatment,the author has created a series of illustrations "Forget Me,It’s Not a Problem" to tell the symptoms and stories of Alzheimer’s patients in the three stages after their onset.In order to further apply visual communication design methods reasonably,summarize design requirements,and design science popularization posters,science popularization brochures,nursing guides,etc.with certain practical value,some basic knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease can be presented in visual visualization and rich representation forms.From multiple design perspectives,this study explores how to provide assistance for the elderly population and non professional family caregivers in society,To meet the needs of special groups.At the same time,in the process of appreciating the design work,viewers can truly feel the chaotic and helpless psychological state of patients,which can stimulate and warn society’s attention to the elderly population,improve public awareness of medical health knowledge,reduce the occurrence of related diseases,and achieve the goal of promoting and preventing Alzheimer’s disease.By using design as a way to remind people of the objective existence of elderly health crises around them,it raises concerns and reflections on improving the health of the elderly and the overall medical health of society.