TY - BOOK ID - 14624043 TI - A friendly rest room : developing toilets of the future for disabled and elderly people AU - J. Mantas (ed.) AU - Molenbroek, Johan F. M. AU - Mantas, J. AU - Bruin, Renate de. PY - 2011 SN - 6613289752 128328975X 9786613289759 1607507528 160750751X 9781607507529 9781283289757 9781607507512 PB - Amsterdam, The Netherlands : IOS Press, DB - UniCat KW - Outhouses. KW - Public toilets. KW - Toilets. KW - Toilets KW - People with disabilities KW - Restrooms KW - Persons KW - Public Facilities KW - Architecture as Topic KW - Health Facilities KW - Adult KW - Sanitary Engineering KW - Technology, Industry, and Agriculture KW - Sanitation KW - Named Groups KW - Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services KW - Age Groups KW - Technology, Industry, Agriculture KW - Public Health KW - Health Care KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Facility Design and Construction KW - Toilet Facilities KW - Disabled Persons KW - Aged KW - Social Welfare & Social Work KW - Civil & Environmental Engineering KW - Social Sciences KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Disabilities KW - Civil Engineering KW - Design and construction KW - Services for KW - Restrooms for people with disabilities. KW - Older people KW - Services for. KW - Flush toilets KW - Latrines KW - Water-closets KW - Handicapped services KW - Plumbing fixtures KW - Bathrooms KW - Public toilets KW - Outhouses KW - rehabilitation KW - FFR KW - inclusive design KW - ergonomics KW - disability KW - gerontechnology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14624043 AB - This book addresses the topic of toilet design, but instead of focusing on the typical able bodied user, it takes the various needs and limited abilities of older and/or disabled people as its starting point (human centered design). This follows the principles of 'Inclusive Design': designs taking into account the needs of the most challenged, will also have benefits for the healthy. For the most part, this book is a spin-off of an EU-funded research and development project called the 'Friendly Rest Room for Elderly People' (FFR), which ran from 2001 to 2005. During that period a consortium of ER -