An Exploration of The Smart Clothing With Silk Prospect For The Senior Citizen

摘要

The world trend of increase in the senior citizen population has become increasingly more pronounced. Closer attention and greater effort in managing the associated issues are thus more pressing. Furthermore, all of us will turn into old age sooner or later. It is to the benefit of everyone to continuously examine the improvement in the welfare of the elderly. We have explored the smart clothing with silk prospect for the senior citizen. We have stressed comfort, safety, and convenience in our work. Some rooms have been reserved for further expansion to add on more appropriate functions and for elimination of the outdated. Helpful systems approaches with the combination of both "top-down" and "bottom-up" route have been used for the investigation. Biomimetics, i.e. helpful lessons or inspiration from Mother Nature is applied whenever appropriate to improve the potential of our smart clothing. Attractive features of modern silk including light weight, low thermal conductivity, good absorbency, low wrinkle, strong, bio-compatible and bio-degradable will be tailored into the smart clothing for better functions. More medical assistance issues including the potential of working as a "second skin" will also be explores. It is our hope that our total effort will help the elderly to live a better life physically, physiologically, and psychologically.