| Today, a variety of socio-economic problems caused by population aging is becoming a major issue relates to ourpopulation security, economic development and build a harmonious society, with the increase in the rapid transformation of Chinese society and the economy, the average life expectancy of our population age structure presentation the development trend of rapid aging and the aging of the large-scale.Our pension system and the elderly can not adapt to rapid population growth, many elderly people choose retirement home, how to make the elderly live a comfortable old age affects the harmony of the family, but also affect the sustainable development of society, therefore, for the elderly provide more living facilities, products and services is the joint efforts of the whole society. Older persons as a more specific groups, with increasing age, physiological and psychological changes are taking place,their lifestyles, habits different from young people around them products and services may not be able to meet their needs. Designers should uphold humane care of the design concept, from the emotional needs of the elderly population to be designed to facilitate the use of most people as a precondition to fully consider the physical and psychological needs of the elderly, to maximize the realization of generic products.Universal design refers to the design and consideration for the environment is the product of the maximum extent possible for all users to create a design activity.Papers to apply to an aging society for the study of household sanitary products, with universal design concept for the dominant ideology, based on the current status of the development status of Aging and household sanitary products, as well as analysis of the characteristics and behavior of elderly mental cognition, combined with the design principles of universal design universal design for the elderly household sanitary products research, provide more convenience and care for the lives of the elderly. |