Friday, July 2, 2010

Selecting your EQ's


1. What are the difficulties that the elderly encounter daily?
This question is essential for the elderly challenge. This is so as we have to find out the difficulties they face in their daily lives, so we will be able to help them try to overcome these difficulties.
2. Why are they facing these difficulties?
This is essential too as we have to find out why are they facing difficulties so we would be able to help them overcome them more easily.
3. How can we reduce the number of difficulties they face daily?
This is also an essential question as this can help us think of how to help the elderly and make their lives more convenient.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

The Ageing Challenge: Essential Questions


  • What are the difficulties that the elderly encounter daily?
  • What can we do to help make the lives of the elderly easier and more convenient?
  • How can we reduce the number of difficulties they face daily?
  • Why are they facing these difficulties?
  • What do the elderly need in order to make their lives easier?

Holiday work - Part 1: Understanding the ‘The Elderly Challenge’


These are the four key recommendations of the report
a)Providing a variety of housing for the elderly to live in so as to fulfill their needs.
b)Public Buses with priority seats specially for the elderly.
c)When the government have budget surpluses,it can be used to top up the elderly Medisave accounts so that the elderly will have to money to see doctor and/or by medicine.
d)Organize activities and programmes for the elderly to take part in so that they can learn how to live a lifestyle they would want to have.

The CAI recommends that families become more involved with the elderly.

The ministries will look at the recommended solutions and will arrange the cost of the solutions, making it cost effective.

Firstly, help them in any difficulties, troubles they are in despite our 'minus' factors like being late, etc.
Secondly, we must not  laugh or giggle about their disadvantages, even if they are different from us which is true, especially the wheelchair bound elderly. 
Thirdly, we can perform acts of kindness towards them such as giving up our seats on the bus or MRT.