9/3/2015 – Tableware designed for Alzheimer’s patients

For Sha Yao, watching her late grandmother’s decline at the unrelenting hands of Alzheimer’s disease prompted the industrial designer to take creative action in the form of assistive tableware.

With years of research and observation under her belt, Yao set to work creating and perfecting Eatwell, an assistive tableware set designed specially for patients with cognitive impairments like Alzheimer’s.

She submitted her tableware design against 52 other teams from 15 countries, emerging as first place in the competition in April 2014.

Read the full article at CNN.