A scooter that doubles as a trolley bag, an intuitive robot companion and a garden room dedicated to conversation are among the six projects commissioned by London's Design Museum to tackle the challenges of ageing populations.
The average age that people live to has been rapidly increasing for decades, resulting in much larger communities of older people in countries all around the world.
With this in mind, the Design Museum asked designers including Yves Be?har, PriestmanGoode and Konstantin Grcic to consider the problems facing older generations and develop possible solutions to them.
All six projects are on show as part of New Old, an exhibition that opens to the public this weekend, curated by Royal College of Art professor Jeremy Myerson. It marks 30 years since the Boilerhouse Project ? the forerunner to the Design Museum ? hosted a show called New Design for Old, which covered the same topic, curated by designer and philanthropist Helen Hamlyn.

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According to the Design Museum, the issue is even more pressing now. This is particularly the case in the UK, where the average age went up from 33.9 to 40 between 1974 and 2014, but is also identified as a major issue in the USA, Japan, Norway and more.
"Life expectancy has increased almost everywhere, and for almost every social and ethnic group. This is both a triumph for society,...