Overseas Invention Of "Old Clothes": Let People Experience "Senility" In Advance.

The stockings were full of marble, with scratched goggles on their heads, plywood and bandages, and great efforts at every move. This is how many steps enter. old age What people have to go through.

This is really a nightmare. My ankle is aching, my buttocks are stiff, my feet are shaking, my legs are not strong enough, I can't lift my arms to a higher position than my shoulders, my fingers become clumsy, and my eyes are beginning to not see clearly. But things are getting worse and worse. I am trapped in the bathtub and unable to move. No matter how I pull it, push it or tear it, it can not get rid of it.

It may sound funny, but it's actually very sad, because my arms suddenly refused to listen, and my legs suddenly could not bend. Every time I tried to hit the pelvic floor in a bathtub clumsily falling down. Howard Jeffries and HowardJeffreys (JacquelineJeffreys) seemed very helpless to me. They looked at me very nervously, and then encouraged me to say something like "dear, try not to be tense all over the body" and "when you really need a hand, tell us JacquelineJeffreys". Frankly speaking, all of this is really hard. Just walking from the stairs to the bathroom is very difficult. Every step taken is done in the best possible way. Even when entering the bathtub, it is necessary to hold the railing or simply crawl, and get in after several attempts and extreme discomfort.

Maybe I should explain the truth. Actually, I am only 40 years old, not 80 years old. But because of Howard's ingenious and highly forward-looking and curious invention, I feel that I am 100 years old. Howard named the dress " Old clothes (Mobilistrictor) is designed to make people who have sound limbs feel what they look like when they are old. "Old clothes" do not make you look old, but feel that you are really old. They will often encounter situations such as joint stiffness, hands and feet not listening. "Many people actually don't know what they look like when they grow old," Howard said. His work in engineering construction was strange before he found that the instruments that satisfy the needs of the elderly were too few.

"On the contrary, when we stand in a crowded supermarket checkout team, we try hard to find coins in our wallets, or we can stand up from a chair for a full half a minute, which is the best way to make people feel old. We should understand his good intentions. At present, the elderly population in Britain is showing explosive growth. The number of people over the age of 65 is over 25, and the number of pensioners in the next 25 years will more than double. In fact, the figures released earlier this week show that the life span of the elderly is increasing very much. Compared to the babies born in 1931, the probability that the babies born this year will be 100 years old is about 8 times that of the former. In addition, the probability that 23 year old young people live to 100 years old is 3 times that of their grandparents, 2 times that of their parents. So what we have to face later is that many people suffer from the pain of aging when they are in the long old age.

Howard invented this dress, which was carefully stitched by Jacqueline. Because he just wanted to experience senility, he did not design prosthetic limbs, eyes, wig and so on. It looked like a blue boiler suit covered with bandages and splints and loose waistbands. Every joint on the human body is tightly adhered to the magic stickers to restrict all kinds of actions of the user. The hard plastic splint reduces the range of motion of the arms and the flexibility of the elbow. Gloves make the hands unruly, and the brackets on the neck make the head and neck clumsy. "It's not a disability, but a normal aging phenomenon caused by sports," Jacqueline said as he stuck the magic stickers on my body one by one. "It doesn't simulate pain, dyspnea, or a specific disease," Howard added. "It's just to make people feel the general phenomenon after aging."

In order to achieve many effects of aging, Howard used a large earphone to simulate deafness, using a yellow full of scratches. glasses To simulate the condition of cataract (because what we see after going into old age is yellow), the light blue socks worn by the feet are filled with marble. "The action of the elderly is generally slow. This pair of socks can slow your pace down. It feels like a shutdown. It's a relatively simple and effective way to know that at present there are about 9000000 people in the UK who are arthritis patients," Howard said.

The function of "old clothes" is still very obvious. From the moment I put on it, everything became more difficult. Even though sitting on a chair, this simple movement became a challenge for me. First, slowly lift my arm, then lay down the action of sitting down, then slowly put the body on the cushion. It is more difficult to stand up from a chair. I have to accumulate enough energy to stand up, or I will probably give up halfway. At this point, the coffee rush became a nightmare. I had to work hard to open the lid of the coffee pot, but the lid fell on the floor, and it was a new challenge for me. First, I had to squatting down before the cupboard, then holding the cupboard with one arm, and the other trying to pick up the lid. Next, I sprinkled all the instant coffee, and the milk in the cup splashed all over the floor, and finally added a lot of water to it because I was too excited. Canning also began to be difficult; when the baking casserole came out, it became a mess, and the arm was scalded. When using the vacuum cleaner, it was necessary to fumble for half a day to complete it.

For yellow goggles and bulky headphones, at first I thought it looked silly, but this feeling vanished immediately. I do every simple thing very hard, and feel a little bit relaxed only when I eat or when I am exhausted. In addition, the suit also avoided some unnecessary gestures and natural reactions. Deafness and isolation make it feel like the bottom of the swimming pool. "Many elderly people are more difficult to talk at a faster speed," Howard said.

Everything is so hard, and I am very surprised at this. Before you put on this suit, you will not know that old people are facing so many problems about physical health and limitation of action. Now I know something about the senility, but I also want to know what the real life of the elderly is. So I interviewed Alfie, 92 years old (Alfie). He summed up his situation very concisely: "in this country, the elderly are swept away like garbage and expired articles, but I am very lucky, because I have a very kind neighbor who often comes to look after me, but in many people's eyes, once you get old, you will become a fool and nothing. When you walk in the street, you will feel as transparent as a shadow, because no one will notice us.

When I was walking in the street wearing that conspicuous dress, I didn't realize the feeling of "transparent people", because everyone was casting a curious glance at me, but because I was slow and my eyes were dim, everything felt so fast around me, which made me make a few mistakes when crossing the street and talking with the truck driver. I feel comfortable after sitting in the car, but if I can buckle my seat belt and shut the door, it will be even better. Although I know that people's hands will become stiffer with age, but I don't know that the sensitivity of fingers will also decrease, so calculators, remote controls and mobile phones will be very inconvenient at this time. Sometimes you don't even know if you have pressed a button. Chatting has also become a luxury (though this has always been my favorite), because my hearing is not as good as before, and I can only stare at other people's mouths when others are speaking. According to Howard's description, when he was speaking slowly and deliberately to me, I began to shout. 　

In addition, the suit also gave me a sense of frustration: the active brain corresponds to the slow body, just like Alfie said, "my brain is no problem, but I feel that my legs have been stolen by others, and I have left their legs for me." After wearing the "old clothes" for an hour, I was surprised to find that if the action was not convenient, people would really be too lazy to do anything. My coffee is getting cold, but I don't want to change it again. I like cooking, but now I feel like I'm eating it in a microwave oven. food That's all right. My lack of enthusiasm did not happen to Myra, 88 years old. She was a friend of my mother and lived alone in her apartment in Yorkshire. When she wanted me to describe how the ordinary day passed, I was really surprised.

Myra herself cooked, washed and did housework, but she also admitted that she had "dared not climb any more to the large furniture, so the higher part of the house had been neglected for a long time." For Mylar, the worst aging problem is that the flexibility of limbs is gradually decreasing. "This is very frustrating, but although my feet are feeling a bit clumsy, I haven't made any big mistakes. I do not have rheumatism or arthritis, but I am really an old man. I remember that my mother used to complain every day because of pain. At that time, we didn't give enough sympathy. Now this situation is starting to happen to me. First of all, I feel very depressed, but you have to adapt to this situation, and then try to break through those limits. Obviously, it is very important for the elderly to maintain a positive life.

Howard, 55 years old, who does not drink or smoke, exercises about 50 miles a week. He insists that although "old clothes" can show the awkwardness of the elderly, the truth is different. "I'm sure that none of these things will happen to me," he said. "You can take some measures to prevent diseases that are debilitating, such as healthy diet, yoga, swimming and so on, which can be solved by oneself, so as to maintain a positive life".

The longer I wear "old clothes" or the older I am, the more I know the changes brought about by aging. Now I can hardly believe why the chairs in many public places are designed so low, and how some heavy things in the supermarket are so high.

My mother, 72 years old, lives alone, and arthritis on her ankle has been troubling her, but she seldom complains.

In fact, Howard's "old clothes" do not have much fun to wear, but I think if those young people can wear an hour to experience the following, they will benefit greatly. This will not only enable them to have a comprehensive understanding of the difficulties faced by the elderly in daily life, but also a warning to their future.