Final Idea

My final idea is a seating cane because I noticed that the elderly have weak legs. Their legs will get tired easily and will need a place to seat down. However, we don’t find seats everywhere. So, I decided to make a seating cane

Sketches Of My First Idea

Idea 1

My first idea was a phone for the elderly with their personal details on it so they can check if they forget. There is a GPS to lead them back home, calling the police is in a push of a button and the family members. There is a lot of elderly friendly designs and applications in it.

Essential Questions

Selecting Your EQ

RED:How can we help those elderly who needs money
Reasons: Some elderly have financial problems and they are too old to go to work. They have no money to pay their debts and to spend on food. They have no one to turn to because their children left them.

RED: How to help those elderly that face walking problems
Reasons: The elderly has weaker legs then before and may have problems walking around.

Blue: How can we help the elderly keep up with the society
Reasons: The elderly is lacking behind the current society, if we can teach them how to use technology, they can connect to their friends and do other things and explore the endless boundaries of the net.

Green: How do we help the elderly blend into the society
Reasons: When the elderly blend in to society, they can communicate with their grandchildren and other people through, E-mail, Facebook and other applications available. So they can keep in touch with their family and even make new friends.

Understanding the "The Elderly Challenge"

1. The Four Key Recommendation are,
- HOUSING : A house that is Elderly-friendly with support care services.
- ACCESSIBILITY : Senior citizens will have user-friendly transportation systems that are barrier-free. They will afford them a secure and unhindered travel passages.
- CARING : Seniors have access to a seamless continuum of health and elderly care services addressing to a range of needs.
- OPPORTUNITIES : Senior citizens will have opportunities to lead healthy and lively lifestyles. They will also have fulfilling relationship within their family and across generations.

2. One way the CAI recommending to make our public housing more elderly friendly is to provide housing options with features suitable for senior citizens

3. The government can either help the elderly pay a percentage of the bills or lower the price.

4. We can visit the elderly and arrange activities to keep them healthy and fit.
We can chat with the elderly or play some games with them. That way they will not feel left out.
We can have elderly grow plants in the neighborhood to let them have a sense that they are contributing to the committee

Personal Reflection ( NeWater Visit )

1. The three takeaways are that Singapore water resources is limited if not for NeWater, the water flowing out of the tap is actually NeWater and also how they filter the water

2. NeWater is currently supplying around 15% of Singapore's and with the open of Changi's NeWater plant, it will supply about 30% of Singapore's water supply. NeWater also added another extra filtration method for the water to make the public feel safer about drinking NeWater

3. The filtering process hardly allow any bacteria to be left in the water

4. We can use water conserving techniques to conserve water and also can teach others this techniques