Designing for the Life Span Segment 3
Designing for the Life Span Segment 3 
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Floors that have barely noticeable shifts in level become an obvious hazard- the difficulty compounded when vision changes occur...
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This change in floor surface has been created to contain water overflow from showers in a public bathing area in a gymnasium. No empathic lens is necessary to illustrate the apparent hazard it presents virtually to anyone, but especially to an older adult. Lighting levels seem even in this photograph, but the unmarked edge fades from view.
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