Holiday Homework: Part 2

Assignment:
As part of your research into understanding the elderly, you are tasked to also take video clips, photographs, or any other forms of recordable media to show how the elderly cope with their daily routines. These could include, but not necessarily limited to, every day activities such as: cooking a simple meal, pouring water from a flask, going to the market to buy groceries, going down the stairs, exercising, etc.

As a follow up, each one of you would do a podcast or a writeup of your observations and interviews with the elderly, caretaker, nurses or anyone who work with the elderly. Find out from them what are the problems that the elderly faces. Look for opportunities to observe and interview them such as at the senior citizens corners, void decks, hawker centers, etc.






For the observation, I have taken 2 videos on my grandmother sewing on the sewing machine and cooking. These are some of the frequent activities she does in her everyday life.


From the videos, I observe that my grandmother is a very active person, although she has long retired. Because of that, she is still very strong and does not fall sick as easily as other people her age.


Also, she finds joy and takes pride in doing such things, as what she is doing is very meaningful, both to herself and to the people around  her. This way, she will not get bored and will continue to have fun even at her age.


In conclusion, I find that my grandmother is a nice person to be around with, and I need to learn from her interms of character and graciousness.

Holiday Homework: Part 1

Assignment:
The following are guiding questions that may enable you to understand the report better. Please answer them in your own ADMT blogs, and post their links into the ‘Comments’ section of this post. You are to complete this by the 19th June 2010.

• Explain in your own words, the FOUR key recommendations of the report.
• State ONE way that the CAI report is recommending to make our public housing more elderly-friendly
• State TWO ways on how we can ensure that the quality of elderly care here in Singapore is affordable
• After reading the CAI report, what do you are the THREE things that you can do, as an SST student, to help overcome these elderly challenges.

1. The four key recommendations of the report are to create elderly-friendly houses, make more places accessible to the disabled and elderly, provide more care for them, and create more opportunities for the elderly to live to their fullest potentials.

2. The CAI report is recommending to make our public housing more elderly-friendly by suggesting to provide different housing options specially for the elderly.

3. We can ensure that the cost of eldercare remains affordable by topping up Medisave Accounts when Government shares a budget surplus, and having family practitioner based holistic care for seniors.

4. I can help to overcome these elderly challenges by taking care of my grandparents, encourage them to stay active even in their old age, and through these activities, suggest new ideas on how to improve the environment such that it will become more elderly-friendly.