LIFE LONG KITCHENS

Is the kitchen an important room in your home? Have you altered how you use it over the years according to family size or moves you have made? Does your current kitchen adequately meet your requirements or is there anything about it you would like to change? These are some of the questions we have been putting to older people living in different types of housing in Bristol and Loughborough, as part of an ESRC funded project within the New Dynamics of Ageing programme... The kitchen is an important domestic space at any age but one that may raise particular expectations or challenges as we age. Our aim is to learn more about how people, as they get older, think about and use their kitchen as well as their experiences of the kitchen over time. Our goal is to produce information and advice of value to older people, occupational therapists, kitchen designers, architects, builders, and policy makers, by providing an understanding of user requirements for kitchen design and adaptation. An..

Primary location: Milton Keynes United Kingdom