Elderly Center

H.K.S.K.H. St. Luke's Settlement Neighbourhood Elderly Centre is located in Kennedy Town. The center aims to provide diversified community supporting services for the elder residents nearby, for constantly enhancing their wellbeing, health, self-esteem, and encouraging their positive participation and contribution to society.

Our target group is a group of elderly people with various degrees of Dementia. Dementia is a general term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving, and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life.

With the help of the staff of the centre, the three of us organised a series of activities titled "快樂一三五", which were carried out throughout the whole month. The mission of our activities is to help them alleviate their cognitive decline, deliver happiness, build up a positive mindset as well as do our best to help them to find their value in society.

-Linda Liao, Lynn Wu, Lia Li (2021)

Pre-departure Planning

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A video about our expectation towards elderly center

Our monthly schedule at the elderly center

"悅享"藝術 Yue Xiang Painting

In the YUE XIANG Painting session, we had three times activities. We made use of different materials, like straws, bubble wrap, and cotton swabs to create our art works. In this session, we aim at letting the elderly enjoy the fun of arts, and after the activities, they can share their works with families and friends.

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"悅動"歌舞 Yue Dong Singing & Dancing

Every Wednesday, the elderly come and enjoy the diversified activities of singing and dancing, ie. chair dance, towel exercise, leg stretching, accompanied by practicing the traditional old songs.

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Chair Dance

While having fun and enjoying old songs, we are doing simple and intriguing chair exercises. It helps to relieve stiff muscles.

Singing old songs

It's time to sing out loud! The old songs 《甜蜜蜜》and《月亮代表我的心》bring back those old memories. Singing cheers them up!

"悅智"益腦 YUE ZHI BOARD GAMES

Our Friday activities aimed to provide the elderly, especially our target Dementia group, with the opportunities for “Brain Exercise”. Various activities of different levels of complexity were designed or selected to cater to their needs and cognitive levels. These activities served the purpose of alleviating their cognitive decline and depression, improving their memory, responsiveness, and coordination as well as their ability to make judgments and plan through fun and interactive board games.

GOBANG

STICK STUCK

RUMMIKUB

NEW CHINESE CHESS

COLOR MATCHING

Final Product

What is the intention of making this picture book?

According to Hong Kong's Department of Health, as many as 100,000 elderly people, or nearly 10 percent of the elderly population, suffer from Dementia.

We came into contact with many elderly people with varying degrees of Dementia and symptoms at the elderly centre.

Our Chinese picture book is comprised of three stories with three elder characters. Our inspiration for these three characters came from those who we have met at the centre that suffer from different degrees of cognitive impairment.

We will use three heartwarming stories to let children know what it is like to be an elderly person with cognitive impairment, how to get along with them smoothly, and more importantly, what we can do to help them.