PFI aims to design a self-lacing shoe
25/04/2014
According to the Pirmasens-based research body, the shoe could help to enhance the independence and safety of older and physically challenged people.
“Germany’s demographic situation is currently undergoing radical changes,” PFI said. “As early as 2035 more than half the population of Germany will be over fifty years old, and every third person will be over 60. By 2050 Germany will have some 17 million fewer inhabitants than it does today, according to calculations by the Federal German Office of Statistics. Every third person will then be over 65 and about 10 million people will be over 80.”
A self-lacing shoe, which the wearer can do up or undo unaided, will be of value, it believes. One of the goals of the project is to design the shoe in such as way as to make it maintenance-free.
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