suitable for the elderly bed height should be about 40-50 cm, such as the bed is too high, the elderly to sit down and lean forward when there is no handrail support, easy to lose focus. Because a person's height varies, you can adjust the height of the bed for about three elderly knee cm. The width of the bed when lying down than the old 30-40 cm wide and to facilitate their ease in bed, stretching will help stretch their wings, promote blood circulation and the lifting of fatigue.

old with a pillow, with the side of the Shoulder width should be equal, it will give the head slightly forward bending of the neck muscles to fully relax and breathe to keep them open chest blood supply to normal.

the height of the pillow are standard: lying down when the head just to see toes, than in adults 15-20 cm of the pillow is slightly lower is better. The elderly cervical degenerative changes in bones and joints, such as the pillow is too high, easy to make cervical nerve roots, spinal cord, sympathetic, or vertebral artery induced by stress or irritation of cervical disease.

table used by the elderly to 70-75 cm is appropriate, it can adapt to people after the old height reduction and some of the elderly hi bend back to take the habit of taking things. In addition, because elderly people are vertigo, reading books, far away from the eyes, too much will affect the reading desk. The elderly can not be used in a chair is too low, otherwise more difficult to play immediately, easily leading to wrestling. Moreover, as sitting too low, knees arch, easily causing leg discomfort for the elderly. The appropriate chair height above the ground surface is about one centimeter lower than the calf around.

old shoe heel height of about two centimeters is appropriate, too high a heel can induce arthritis, and easy to fall, while the low flat shoes, would cause damage to the feet and other parts of the and chronic fatigue.

(taken from Hong Kong “Ta Kung Pao” Author: Cee-kin)