Our Parkinson's Place: Emily Andrews’ Parkinson’s disease kitchen aid wins major Powerhouse Museum award

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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Emily Andrews’ Parkinson’s disease kitchen aid wins major Powerhouse Museum award

March 24, 2016 1:17am

Kate CrawfordMosman Daily

2015 HSC student Emily Andrews with her award-winning utility board. Picture: Braden Fastier

AS a Mosman schoolgirl, Emily Andrews took a simple chopping board and designed an effective aid for Parkinson’s sufferers.

She thoroughly researched Parkinson’s disease and extensively tested the kitchen aid — even asking her grandparents to try their hand at the chopping board.

For her efforts, Emily’s design was not only selected by the Powerhouse Museum for its current exhibition of innovative designs by HSC students but also won the top award, the MAAS Innovation in Design Award.

Emily’s invention is on display at the Powerhouse Museum.

Emily designed the chopping or preparation board for her HSC Design and Technology subject last year at Wenona.

She had seen online clips about Parkinson’s disease and recognised that for sufferers with hand tremors, food preparation could be a difficult and risky business.

“I wanted to design something applicable to simple daily activities, something that would be practical but also psychologically empower people with Parkinson’s,’’ she said.

Emily consulted neurologists and also got valuable advice from Clyde Campbell, of Mosman, who has Parkinson’s disease and is the founder of the Shake It Up foundation.

Emily was helped by Clyde Campbell, founder of the Shake It Up foundation.

“The design would also help elderly people so I tested out prototypes on my grandparents and also took the design to a nursing home,’’ she said.

The final design includes a special knife guard, a food caddie to keep food items stable and magnet to hold metal bowls.

Emily hopes that the board will attract the interest of a manufacturer.

The exhibition called Shape 2015 continues at the Powerhouse Museum until May 8. Details: maas. museum.com

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/north-shore/emily-andrews-parkinsons-disease-kitchen-aid-wins-major-powerhouse-museum-award/news-story/47de0f4f58dd86b20f94a37e5d15cdbb