Interview

To study the case study deeper, we interview the public to find out ways to prevent falls that occurs to elderly due to slippery floor.

Persona 1

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Name : Nur Anis

·         Age     : 23

·         Sex      : Female

·         Race    : Malay

Anis is a student studying in NTU (Nanyang Technological University). She is born in Singapore and was raised by her grandparents ever since she was a baby. Due to her parents busy work schedule, her grandparents were the one who raised her up. She and her grandparents stay in a 3-Room old HDB flat at teck whye at storey 8. The old HDB buildings doesn’t have a lift to every floor instead, the lift only stops at the first storey, the 6 storey and the 11 storey. However the HDB consist of 12 floors in total. Every morning her grandparents will wake up early to go to the community centre to go for their morning exercise but in order to do that, they have to go down the stairs in a dimmed lighted staircase to reach the 6-storey in order to get to the lift to reach the ground floor. Due to the bad maintenance of the HDB sometimes the water from the pipes will leak and puddles of water will be form on the stairs. What worries Anis is the safety of her grandparents when going down the stairs because of the puddle. Elderly doesn’t have a good pair of perfect eyesight due to old age and the muscles in their body isn’t as strong as when they’re still young. For a good and safety precaution for her grandparents and elderlies staying in the HDB, Anis suggests putting rubber mats on the staircase to reduce frictions between the shoes of the elderlies and the floor of the staircase. Putting railings on every side and corner for the elderlies is also a main thing to this precaution as they can also have something to rely and support on in any worst-case situation. In any worst-case situation whenever the place is slippery or there are puddles of water, the elderlies don’t have to worry about falling since the rubber mats will also cushion their fall and lessen the impact avoiding a serious or long-term injury.