Concept of quality behind NAIS age-free products

摘要

In the context of a society with fewer children and a growing elderly population, MEW has begun a company-wide campaign to develop Nais Age-Free products--products that support comfortable independent or assisted living arrangments for theelderly. There are about 19 million elderly people in Japan whose conditions range from being healthy (level 1) to requiring nursing care for most daily activities (level 4). An estimated 2.8 million elderly citizens require assistance in some or mostdaily activities (levels 3 and 4). MEW is actively developing easy-to-use products suitable for general use as well as specialty products supporting assisted living arrangements. The article describes the basic design philosophy and quality requirementsfor a unified company-wide approach to developing the Nais Age-Free product line.