Exercise Area for Elderlies

[joclar]

Hi fellow residents,

My granny is coming to stay with me in Punggol, so my mum and me surveyed the area ard us for elderly facilities and found none..sadly.
Can we request to convert one of the 2 playgrounds at my block area to an elderly exercise area? I have seen those at other blocks in Punggol.
I live at Punggol Field Blk 203A.

An exercise area with guided rails for holding while walking and some easy to use leg exercise machines would be useful.
Can the RC do something please?

I must say this is a great forum for Punggolians.
I am also pleasantly surprised to find a Gardenia bread vending machine at the RC here, good job!

Cheers,
Jo


 

[tom]

Further to the above, probably to live a healthy life-style for the elderlys, walking around the playground is only a basic need. 

Singapore's population is ageing. What was really necessary was an exercise / physiotherapy centre with the basic equipments for hand, leg, body and mind exercise.

Each morning besides elderlys who are doing some walking exercises, there are many on wheel-chairs cared for only by maids. What the maid lacks, besides pushing them around, are further education on feeding / meals and medication. Techniques in wheel chair transfers and the many aspects of caring for the old.

These facilities should be on the ground floor, run by health-care-assistants, a physiotherapist headed by a certified staff nurse. In this case, fragile residents, senior citizens and maids can gather for sharing knowledge, learn to care, simple nursing training, medical advice on how to care and look after the elderly etc.

  This is something new ( unlike Day-Care Centres and Nursing Homes ) a project worth talking to the authorities, if there is a demand. 

[tom]

Nurses can also be on call duty, should a resident needs help or feeling inconvenient to come down to the Centre. Some bed-bound resident may need the assistance of nursing care at home for the following :

1. Bath, changing of diaphers, clothing and grooming.
2. Renewing feeding tubes.
3. Changing urinal bags.
4. Others.

If facilities of this nature are within our kampong, old and fragile residents may feel more comfortable and homely.