What starts in America spreads to London and worldwide. Vancouver city council plans to ban circular door knobs and install horizontal levers because they are easier for the elderly.
The elderly population is increasing in the affluent countries. (In the newer, poorer countries, with high birth and death rates, the youngsters have ten children and the average age is under thirty. In the USA, UK and Japan, there are more elderly people and in years to come there will be still more. Back to door knobs.
I was fed up with catching my sleeves and cuffs belts and dressing gown belts anything else projection or trailing caught on levers. I was about to change lever handles to knobs. Now I shall reconsider. A half way solution is the same as taps. You can have circular one if they have indents you can grasp. But I have found lever taps much better. Less likely to be left half on dripping or turned off so tightly that you cannot turn them on.
The elderly population is increasing in the affluent countries. (In the newer, poorer countries, with high birth and death rates, the youngsters have ten children and the average age is under thirty. In the USA, UK and Japan, there are more elderly people and in years to come there will be still more. Back to door knobs.
I was fed up with catching my sleeves and cuffs belts and dressing gown belts anything else projection or trailing caught on levers. I was about to change lever handles to knobs. Now I shall reconsider. A half way solution is the same as taps. You can have circular one if they have indents you can grasp. But I have found lever taps much better. Less likely to be left half on dripping or turned off so tightly that you cannot turn them on.
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