In March last year, the Urban Renewal Authority launched the "Home Improvement Programme for the Elderly", which designed the home environment and provided suitable furniture for the frail elderly who were allocated public housing. So far, 10 elderly households have participated, of which 8 Home improvement works have been completed.
In the plan, the team "dressed up" the new home of two mother-in-laws who were assigned "upstairs" and had limited mobility, and arranged furniture according to their health conditions, including the installation of electric drying racks and "hydraulic" shelf kitchens. Cabinets and auto-sensing night lights can help the elderly with poor vision and inconvenience to avoid falling again.
In response to the raging epidemic, the team even installed an "automatic water dispenser" on the U-shaped air trap of the unit to reduce the risk of the elderly forgetting to fill with water due to the "big head shrimp" and allowing the virus to take advantage.
The 68-year-old Thai mother-in-law Li originally lived alone in a subdivided unit in the Kai Tak Road/Sha Po Road redevelopment project in Kowloon City. She had to share the kitchen and toilet with her neighbors. She suffered from acute glaucoma and cataract, and just completed the operation. Life has brought all kinds of elbow restraints. A few years ago, I even fell into the hospital at my old residence. My knees are still swollen and painful, and it is inconvenient to walk.
In December last year, Granny Li was awarded the title of "Upstairs". The URA installed an electric clothes drying rack in order to cope with her mobility problem. In addition to the electric lifting function, the clothes drying rack also has a UV sterilization function.
The unit has also installed lamps that can be adjusted to dim and color, and additional lighting equipment has been added to the wardrobe and kitchen cabinet to help Granny Li, who suffers from eye disease, to use related facilities more easily.
The epidemic is raging, and the U-shaped air trap in the unit has become the focus of epidemic prevention. The U-shaped air trap of the unit is also equipped with an "automatic water replenisher", which will automatically fill water regularly, reducing the risk of "big head shrimp" because the elderly forget to drain the water. The canal is filled with water, drying up the canal and allowing the virus to take advantage of it.
Seventy-year-old mother-in-law was arranged to install hydraulic kitchen cabinets to regain the joy of cooking
The 75-year-old mother-in-law Zhang, who also lives in a subdivided flat, was assigned to "upstairs" because of the To Kwa Wan/Chong Kwong Street redevelopment project. She is diabetic and underwent a polypectomy operation at the beginning of last year. He even fell and was injured accidentally because he was about to walk up to the flat on the seventh floor of Tang, and he still has difficulty moving.
The URA had tailor-made the design for its public housing unit in Sham Shui Po, but her mother-in-law could only speak Teochew, so she needed a social worker who would follow up the case with simultaneous interpretation, so that the team could communicate with her mother-in-law and understand her life needs.
Due to her mobility problem, the team filled in the height gap between the bathroom and the floor for her unit, and added handrails next to the toilet so that the mother-in-law could enter and exit the bathroom.
Auto-sensing night lights are also installed in the corridor and living room, so that the mother-in-law does not have to walk around in the dark, and the wood grain anti-slip rubber floor also reduces the risk of falling.
Granny Zhang used to live in a cramped sub-unit, lacking a separate kitchen, making it difficult to enjoy cooking.
Moving into her new home, Granny Zhang can finally show off her skills. The team added kitchen cabinets to her. The cabinets are equipped with "hydraulic" shelves. Just pull down the shelves to get utensils and seasonings without having to climb up and down.
The wardrobe in the unit is also equipped with pull-bar clothes hangers, so that the shorter mother-in-law can easily obtain clothes.
Granny Zhang praised the team for speeding up the renovation project, so that she could have a good year with peace of mind.
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