The presentation aims to share how everyday home elderly care activities are designed incorporating traditional Chinese Medicine approaches. The design of culture-based daily activities within the familiar home living space is line with the aspiration to promote sustainable and active ageing life style among healthy elderly persons. Integrating the holistic care approaches of the traditional Chinese medicine, designing everyday home elderly care activities begin with establishing a profile of the healthy elderly individual, understanding the elderly individual's microsystem and social supports, body constitution, past and current health conditions and limitations, medical history, and habits of life. Apart from gathering the data through oral history, measures that are available are used to determine the body constitution of the individual elderly person, as well as his(her) diet, interests and bodily movement constraints. The presentation includes the author's experiences working with a case of a healthy elderly person for the past one year, documentation of dairy of the elderly person, and the field notes of the author. The design of everyday daily activities incorporating the traditional Chinese medicine approaches to supplement modernized medical care has enhanced holistic and quality of care of healthy elderly residing at home.

Authors:
Tan Ai-Girl, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Tan Ai Girl is currently a faculty member of the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University Singapore.

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