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A walking stick with a seat for senior citizens

Carolina Rebelo Schneider developed a new type of walking stick with a seat for senior citizens. The use of walking sticks is on the decrease because the target group of senior citizens nowadays mainly use walker frames. The walking sticks currently available on the market often do not meet the emotional requirements of the user and they look old-fashioned and of a medical nature. The walking stick created is therefore a walking stick with a seat which is aesthetically pleasing, does not stigmatise and is an item which is well-liked in the daily routine.

Carolina Rebelo Schneider

Carolina Rebelo Schneider was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is now living in Berlin. She studied product design at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and at the Anhalt university of applied sciences in Dessau and completed her studies with a bachelor’s degree in 2010. She then took a master’s degree in industrial and strategic design at the Aalto university in Helsinki, Finland which she concluded in 2015. Carolina Rebelo Schneider has already worked in a number of countries, e.g. at Jacob Jensen Design in Hoejslev, Denmark, at Fullpack in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and as a freelance designer in Helsinki, Finland.