The diploma thesis explores the characteristics, use and general attitude towards walking aids, more precisely walkers and rollators. The need for them is increasing, as the number of elderly people, due to an increasing life expectancy, is growing. Walkers, unlike other devices, are used by people with more severe balance problems and lower limb injuries. Despite their positive effects, people often do not want to use them due to the prejudice against the product and its users. The social stigma is mostly the consequence of the appearance of products currently present on the market. These are functionally adequate, but of cold, medical appearance. Based on the data obtained from the research (the analytical part of the thesis) I design and present a rollator that moves away from the form of the classic rollator, to eliminate stigma as well as minor shortcomings of the existing products.
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