The world trend of increase in the senior citizen population has become increasingly more pronounced. Closer attention and greater effort in managing the associated issues are thus more pressing. Furthermore, all of us will turn into old age sooner or later. It is to the benefit of everyone to continuously examine the improvement in the welfare of the elderly. We have explored the smart clothing with silk prospect for the senior citizen. We have stressed comfort, safety, and convenience in our work. Some rooms have been reserved for further expansion to add on more appropriate functions and for elimination of the outdated. Helpful systems approaches with the combination of both "top-down" and "bottom-up" route have been used for the investigation. Biomimetics, i.e. helpful lessons or inspiration from Mother Nature is applied whenever appropriate to improve the potential of our smart clothing. Attractive features of modern silk including light weight, low thermal conductivity, good absorbency, low wrinkle, strong, bio-compatible and bio-degradable will be tailored into the smart clothing for better functions. More medical assistance issues including the potential of working as a second skin will also be explores. It is our hope that our total effort will help the elderly to live a better life physically, physiologically, and psychologically. Introduction The world trend of increase in the senior citizen population has become increasingly more pronounced. Closer attention and greater effort in managing the associated issues are thus more pressing. Furthermore, all of us will turn into seniors sooner or later. It is to the benefit of everyone to continuously examine the improvement in the welfare of the elderly. Clothing is one of the closest contacts with our body. There are many interactions between our body and the cloth we wear. It is of particular importance to deal with such issues in senior persons as the aging process may have progressively deteriorated some of their vital functions. Clothing with the proper intelligence will be more feasible to meet the challenge. We have explored the smart clothing with silk prospect for the senior citizen. Our approaches As we are becoming older in old ages, most of us will experience some physical and psychological deterioration that will affect our daily life. Some may become slower in responses. Others may have a fading memory. Some may have a physical issue of balancing themselves. Some may have hygiene issues such as unpleasant odor, incontinence. Some elderly may generate constant anxiety including worrying with or without causes. There may be insecure feeling towards many real or imaginary issues in life also.
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