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Monday, July 13, 2009
OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES One major challenge is that the whole team was lack of experience in communicating with the elderly, not only without the skills, in some cases without the language. But eventually, by mixing with them, we manage to understand sincerity and patience is the key. We persevered on and did more homework on the hokkien language. Besides this year, the H1N1 flu had greatly disrupted how team’s progress. Hokkien Huay Guan didn’t held the hokkien lesson after March due to the flu. Hence, we have to find out from other sources ourselves. Also, we couldn’t meet up face to face which create some miscommunications and delays of deadline. But we managed to cherish the time we have together to get things done efficiently. The jobs delegated were still completed. Labels: Obstacles and Challenges
Working as a team, we created and developed resources from our observations and constant monitoring. After the production of the resources, all of us were also involved in the production and distribution of various resources to local elderly care organizations. Each of us were delegated a role to ensure maximum efficiency in the development and production of our resources. We met consistently to evaluate our progress and brainstorm for more effective designs. Labels: Progress to Date
IMPLEMENTATION METHODS Phase 1: Interaction Sessions Hence, we held the Hwa Chong Founder’s day CIP on 25th of March. The students went to Silra Home, Ju Eng Home, Saint Vincent Home, Saint Theresa’s Home and Bethany Methodist Nursing Home to engage in CIP and interact with the elderly. By having their feedbacks and observing, we find out that the problem lies on not having good atmosphere and language barrier. Hence, we start to work on those problems by creating a resource package. Phase 2: Development & Creation of Resources After learning the common obstacles faced when reaching out to elderly, we developed various resources to solve the problems of those who wants to reach out to the elderly. Resources made include: Ten Commandments when treating the elderly, ice-breakers, meaningful activities to carry out with the elderly and the hokkien learning sections. Phase 3: Feedback & Improvement When we finish our resource package, we will initiate a survey to ask about what other people think about our resource package. The collated feedback will enable our group in improving our resources before production for distribution. Phase 4: Distribution At the end of our project, we would make our resources available on the internet for people working with elderly to download for their use, hence leaving a long lasting impact that is beneficial for Singapore as an aging population. Besides we will print the books and distribute it to various host for CIP programmes relating to elderly, so as to allow those CIP to be an effective one. Labels: Implementation Methods
At the start of the project, we planned to close up the generation gap currently present. Hence, we held the Hwa Chong Founder’s day CIP on 25th of March. The students went to Silra Home, Ju Eng Home, Saint Vincent Home, Saint Theresa’s Home and Bethany Methodist Nursing Home to engage in CIP and interact with the elderly. The purpose of this trip is for us to observe what are the common obstacles faced by all when they want to reach out to the elderly. Our team was separated to four destinations to observe while the students carry out their pre-planned CIP. After the Founder’s day CIP, we collected feedback, collated our observations and started brainstorming what can we do to help those who want to reach out to the elderly to succeed in achieving what they want. Hence we planned to prepare a resource package which would be a guide for people to hold CIP when relating to elderly. We separate the jobs according the different sections of the book. The sections of the book include rules to treat the elderly right, ice-breakers, meaningful activities to carry out with them and the last section is hokkien learning. This section is the main part of our resource package. This section contains basic hokkien language that might most likely be used in a conversation. Besides, we plan to include a audio CD so as to help our target audience in pronouncing hokkien as precisely as possible. We chose Hokkien because it’s the most common dialect used in Singapore. We’ll seek to make the resource package as complete as possible. Hence we will conduct a survey to further improve is so as to allow those people to reach out to the elderly effectively. When the book is completed, we will start to compile it together and collaborate with hokkien huay guan which will help us in improving the resource package and publish it as a commonly accessible guidebook. Besides that, we will post all our resources onto the net to make it available to those who are working with elderly and allow our resource package to leave a lasting impact in the community. Labels: Plan of Action
Labels: Underlying Problem Question
Singapore is an aging population. Statistics show that elderly is expected to contribute more than 25% of the total population by the year 2030. Over the past decade(1990 to 2000), the population aged 65 and above had grown annually by about 3.7%. Demographic projections show that the proportion of elderly will increase from about 7% today to 19% by the year 2030, or one in every five people. Besides that, among all the elderly in Singapore, only 34.5% of them are living with their children. 52.4% of them are living with their spouse while the 13.1% left are living with neither their spouse nor children. The number of elderly living alone shot up from 15,000 to 22,000 from 2000 to 2005. With this increasing rate of elderly living alone, more care and concern should be given to them. Care and concern shown might be felt by the elderly, but language is still the only key to their inner heart. Statistics showed more than 60% of Chinese Singaporeans aged 15 to 24 spoke Mandarin most at home, and 18% spoke dialect. It shows that there is a need to work on the language barrier in order to reach out to the elderly effectively. Labels: Area of Concern
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