A dining specifically for people diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease has now been made. The idea was conceived by young designer Sha Yao felt helpless about her late grandmother who had the disease.
According to Food Beast, Yao volunteered in senior care facilities that had patients with Alzheimer's. It was during her work as a volunteer that she came up with the idea of the Eat Well dining set.
The main purpose of the Eat Well dining set is to not only increase the patient's food intake, but maintain his or her dignity in the process.
The Eat Well dining set has twenty features boasting of unique design details created with four years of hard work and research.
These one-of-a-kind features include user-friendly designs, spill-proof cups and bright colors to name a few.
According to the Eat Well website, their tableware design applied research from Boston University, which stated that bright colors help increase people's appetites. The study also suggests that colors help people with dementia reduce visual impairment, consume 24% more food, as well as drink 84% more liquid.
Users of the dining set make use of the slanted bottom design to gather food with no need for scooping. The bowl's right angle side helps users help collect food into the spoon and prevent food spillage.
In fact, each product in the EATWELL set has reportedly been created with anti-slippage material at the bottom to prevent slipping or sliding.
One cup has a rubber base acting as a stabilizer, while another has a handle extending to the tabletop for more support, another benefit for users with arthritis.
EATWELL dining set's tray also has a bib clip-on area at the edges to help catch dropped food and prevent clothing stains.
At the 2014 Stanford Design Challenge where 52 teams in 15 countries competed, the EATWELL dining set won first place, a much-deserved accomplishment after years-long research and development.
The EATWELL set has been fully-funded on Indigogo. It is now available via pre-order with the following prices:
- Eatwell Postcard - $15.00
- 4-piece yellow set - $60.00
- 4-piece red set - $60.00
- 8-piece Eatwell set - $110.00
