(Semester 2) Lesson 1: Overarching factors affecting the elderly in Singapore.

Essential Question:
What are the key overarching factors that affects the quality of life of the elderly here in Singapore?

As an individual work, you are to work on coming out with a mindmap that covers the various factors that may answer the EQ above. Do explain in a single sentence or more, each of the points that you are highlighting. Produce AT LEAST a MINIMUM of 8 points.

Capture this mindmap as a photo and upload this into the Facebook page below, which would be used for our lessons this Semester.

The link for the Facebook page is:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Elderly-Challenge-108-2011/213730751997546

(Semester 2) Lesson 0: Expectations

Here are some details regarding The Elderly Challenge:

• The project is supposed to be done as an individual project, instead of paired or group work.
• 3 key deliverables that are expected from each of you are:
• An individual design journal (you can use Pages instead of Google Docs)
• Google SketchUp model of your proposed solution/s to your challenge/s
• Two Multimedia Presentation (MMP) that best captures your resolution to your intended challenges.
•  The intended deadlines for all of the above deliverables are by Term 4 Week 4. However there would be occasions when intermediate submissions would need to be made.
• For the first MMP, the proposed submission date would be in Term 3, Week 6
• The two MMP's must show coherence in communicating the proposed solution/s to the intended challenge/s.

Initial Review of the first reading on 'The Elderly Challenge'

1. What do you think are some of the KEY challenges of a greying Singapore?
2. What are some policies that have been implemented, or that are going to be implemented, that would help to mitigate these challenges?
3. How do you think some of these challenges can be researched on further? Identify THREE of these challenges with your team mates and identify possible Essential Questions to these challenges

Readings for 'The Elderly Challenge' in Semester 2 for ADMT

Here is the first set of readings for ADMT's 'The Elderly Challenge' in Sem 2.