Group mind map ( Solutions Design )

1st Mindmap for the solution:

We have made an overall solutions as follows:

• Create a session for the elderly about safety tips on staying safety in the bedroom    (free)

•  Create a welcoming bedroom for the elderly 

   for e.g .choose a warm color for the room ( yellow, peach )
              .Place a furniture that i can keep their old pictures on the top 
              .Put the lighting that match with their eye sights ( Not too strong or too dark )
              .Install a air freshener ( censor ) so that the smell in the room keep them calm

Example look of the elderly's bedroom

• Stay In touch ( Install a phone that easily to dial or just with one press in order to call anyone to help incase of an accident , Install a panic button in several places) In addition, an installations of all the emergency items.

• Redesign the furnitures and the environment of the bedrooms to become more suitable for the elderly 

More comfortable chair

Adjustable bed 

       

non-slipping matt

• Organize of a group of volunteer to double check the elderly's bedroom ( who lives alone ) once month. Check the lighting, loose carpet, etc.

• Create a posters on the safety tips on bedroom and giving out to an elderly.

FEEDBACK:

- Can enhance the solutions by involve the today's technology into the furniture 

- Mindmap should includes more visuals. 

Case study ( individual )

Elderly and Their Independences

A program launched recently by De Pere Fire Rescue and The De Pere Health Department, in US. 

The program's goal is to keep the elderly who lives alone safe as long as possible. 

The firefighter from their team have visited the senior's home and talk to them in order to teach and giving advice on how to avoid accidents in such as falling. The team have visited around 20 individually in the senior's home and conducted one group session to about 30 people in a senior housing complex. They are still hoping to do more session. 

According to what they have learnt from this program, the elderly who 65 and above who were involved in the house fire are more likely to die more than the younger people and those who are 75 and above are more likely to die four times than the younger one which worst. They are also learnt that falling is the most kind of accident that happens to the elderly who age over 65 and this leads to the serious injury such as hip fractures. The patient from this accident likely to die within a year.

 

Their solution to these problem is to give a session about safety and they have names the program

 "Remember  When". This program offers the eight tips for fire safety and avoid falling and it seems likely to work because the number of emergency needs from the elderly are reducing.  These tips are actually what they have learnt in the school curriculums which is very simple such as " Stop, drop roll" but they are forgetting and can not perform well as they grow older. 

In order to help with the specific problem of different seniors, tailer-made strategies keyed to their own abilities and disabilities  and to the layout of their homes. The installations of the suitable items in the elderly's place is very important because it might safe their lives later (e.g. smoke alarm).

The service is this program is not only giving the session but they also provide, the checking of fire hazards ( like overloaded circuit ), falling hazards,  poor lighting , loose carpet and uneven walk surface. More over, they also help the senior with their prescription medicine schedule with a medical needs survey. 

The service is free to everyone over 65 who live in De Pere. they are also hope that this will reach to their daughter and sons 

Thank you to this website:

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/life/2016/03/09/two-team-up-elderly-safety-independence/81524108/

Methodology's Summary

INTERVIEW

 

Our group have interview have interview 3 people who is our close family members and relatives with the age of 65 and above. We have randomize the questions however, it is stay in our topic. The questions are simple and straight forward because it is easier for out interviewee. 

we proceed the interview by face to face and through calls, it went smoothly. As the result we have got a clear answer and very useful advices from our seniors. It can actually help us with the design later. However, we feel that only interview 3 people is too less since the ideas are very limited with the limited information. If possible we would like to interview more of people and get different perspectives. Overall, it was a good methodology. 

SURVEY

We have created 2 different kinds of online surveys by using monkeysurvey.com. The question in the first survey is fixed to " Strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly agree" with our statements and, for the second one the answer are more free because we left the space for them to answer in their own ways. We have gotten about 139+ responses for the both surveys which we think it was great.i have analyze the graph and it gave a percentage of what people are actually thinking about our group topic.

Case Study 

For the case study i feel that our group did not make it good because we have spent lesser time on this methodology and focuses on the other two above therefore we did not get a lot of informations from this. Later we will have to redo and dig more knowledge out of it. 

Survey Methods ( Group Mind Map )

MIND MAP

In Conclusion,

• We are going to use 3 ways for the methodology ( Case Study, Interview, Survey)
• Each one of us will search for different case studies and then choose the best one to focus on. 
• For the interview method each one of us will interview one person, in order to collect the data and use for our report  ( Age range of the interviewee: 65~) 
• For the Survey method we will use a website called "Surveymokey" to collect the data and write the analysis by ourself. 
• The research will take about 2 weeks, in order to completed. 
• While doing our researches we will keep in mind of what is the good point and the bad point of it. So we get a better idea of how to process it.

At this point, this is our plan and we are trying our best to create a useful data for our group proposal.

The talk ( WGSN)

Tay Kheng Soon 

Background:

Tay Kheng Soon is known as TKS. He is a practicing architect and adjunct professor at National University of Singapore's of architecture. Sir Tay Kheng Soon was also a chairman of the Task Force for the long term development of the National Museum of Singapore. 

What have i learned from sir TKS's talk?

Sir TKS had 100+ of slides for his presentations and 2 hours long of talking, each one of his talk has an important message behind us. I have to admit that, i am very interested in his way of thinking because it is different. I do agree with him that nowadays, in the design industry we always think about the look and do not focus on how effective it is. It is time for us to stop and think ' Is what we are doing useful for others?' and design something that actually benefits for everyone around us. I can relate this to my group work since we have to keep in mind the word ' Empathy ' , TKS gave me the clearer idea of it which i can use it in my work. 

He also mentions that a designer should not be the one who can only design but the designer should have the knowledge of environment, social , economy and other things around us. In my opinion, what he said is very right because in order to give out a better design work we should know ' for who we are designing?' ' How will our design affect everyone around it? ' ' Does it cause beneficial for every department?' and so on.

In conclusion, by attending his presentation talk i could get a new perspective of design industry. What i have been thinking is not the same as it is in real life, therefore i always the wrong idea and can not get more idea for my works. Sir TKS's presentation is like one of my guide line which make my direction clearer.