わが国は1970年に高齢化率が7%を超え，24年後の1994年には14%に，その20年後の2014年現在の推計では高齢者総数は過去最高の3,079万人。高齢化率24.1%である。国民の4人に1人が高齢者という状況，かつ世界に例をみないほどのスピードで進行しているのがわが国の高齢化の特徴である。%Japan is a super-aged society where one out of four people are the elderly as of 2014. The society is aging rapidly and the number of the aged households is increasing rapidly. It seems that our living environment cannot keep up with the major lifestyle change caused by the aging of the society. Packaging, closely related to our daily necessities, needs to be designed in consideration of the elderly users. This is a voice of the society. Packaging, designers in this era need to keep in mind that the elderly people are becoming main users of packaging and to learn about the physical characteristics and living environment of the elderly people before designing packaging.
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