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獨居的何伯漸漸年長，愛護他的親友聘請了外傭照顧他，今次受到委托除了整理伯伯的家之外，以及小改動的情況下加建一間工人房。



協助長者處理家居空間的時候，我們在不同的個案也發現長者未必一下子適應新改動的環境，所以通常都以「少改動，大不同」的出發點而規畫。尤其獨居的伯伯，確是需要時間去適應之餘，安全實用是重點。



配合伯伯的日常生活，我們簡單地做了以下修葺：



✅廚房- 取消了煤氣爐之後，日常生活改為電爐煮食，但礙於原本灶頭的高度我們添置了櫃桶櫃，除了多了收納空間之外，也讓灶頭的高度提升了，適當高度的配合，讓長者的日常生活更方便。



✅只是簡單的移動原本的高身儲物櫃就可以騰出空間做了一間休息室，既沒有花耗大的金錢之餘，也善用原本的資源和讓空間發揮最大作用，而過程中亦需要整理收納，讓不再需要用的物品整理好，騰出更多空間讓長者的活動範圍擴展，而且家居也舒適了很多。



✅燈光-原本家居的燈光完全不足夠，因為長時間燒了燈膽沒有修理造成晚上的燈光嚴重不足，我們添置了新的燈飾之後讓整個家居光猛及舒適了。

長者也因為有充足的光線加添安全感。



Uncle Ho, who lives alone, is getting older. His loving relatives and friends have hired a maid to take care of him. This time, he was entrusted to build a workers' room with minor changes in addition to tidying up his home.

When assisting the elderly in dealing with home space, we have also found in different cases that the elderly may not adapt to the newly changed environment at once, so we usually plan with the starting point of "less changes, big differences". Especially the elderly who live alone do need time to adapt, safety and practicality is the key.

In line with uncle's daily life, we simply made the following repairs:

✅Kitchen - After canceling the gas stove, daily life changed to electric stove cooking, but due to the original height of the stove we added a drawer cabinet, in addition to more storage space, also make the height of the stove improved, appropriate height matching, so that the elderly's daily life more convenient.

✅ Just simply move the original high cabinets can free up space to make a rest room, not spending a lot of money, but also make good use of the original resources and let the space play the maximum role, and in the process also need to organize storage, so that no longer need to use items organized, free up more space for the elderly to expand their activities, and the home is much more comfortable.

✅ Lighting - The original home lighting is completely insufficient, because the bulb burned for a long time without repair causing serious lack of lighting at night, we added new lighting after making the whole home bright and comfortable.
The elderly also have a sense of security because of the ample light.

陳小姐很有遠見為自己未來的退休居所作準備。雖然已經裝修了一年多的時間，可是工作繁忙的她還未有時間整理好裝修存倉時的一箱箱儲存品，我們配合她的要求作了裝修後的家居整理，以配合她剛完成的家居裝修。

因為紙箱太多，導致明明已經花費了金錢做全屋裝修，但物品一直未能歸位，繼續亂糟糟的一團，很想整理但又不知如何入手，於是我們先了解她對於退休後生活的需求進一步的整理目標：

✅建立有系統的收納，不再「左搵左揾」又重複購買。
✅植物房成為舒適的閱讀區，既可以一邊品嚐咖啡、一邊閱讀、一邊欣賞自己喜歡的植物。
✅喜歡客廳整潔，招待朋友。
✅隨着年紀增長，有機會需要加添助行工具，寬敞的通道，沒有因雜物過多而導致半島的危險是十分重要的，所以整理上以這個重點角度出發。
✅很多的長者導致跌倒或許與高處放重要的物品有關，所以我們以黃金的高度法則為陳小姐度身訂造她常常使用的物品，以方便她的的起居更方便而又不失安全的考慮。

在一個整齊的家居，少了囤積雜物，整個氣場會有所提升，重建天日的植物房、拯救被淹沒的客飯廳，意外收穫的咖啡閱讀區，不同的房間分隔，承載了對家的歸屬感，讓她也十分期待退休的家居生活。


Ms. Chan has the foresight to prepare for her future retirement home. Although she has been renovating her home for more than a year, she has not yet had time to organize the boxes of storage after the renovation. We made a post-renovation home with her request to match her newly completed home renovation.

Because of too many storage boxes, resulting in despite having spent money for the whole house decoration, but the items have not been able to return to their place, continue to be a mess, want to organize but do not know how to start, so we first understand her needs for retirement life further organization goals:

✅ Create systematic storage, no longer "always searching around “ repeated purchases.
✅ The plant room becomes a comfortable reading area, both while tasting coffee, while reading, while enjoying her favorite plants.
✅ Like to keep the living room clean and entertain friends.
✅ As grow older, we may need to add walking tools, spacious passages, and no danger of the corridor due to excessive debris is very important, so the organization starts from this key perspective.
✅ Many elderly people cause falls may be related to placing important items at high places, so we use the golden law of height to tailor-made items for Ms. Chan that she often uses, to facilitate her daily life more convenient without losing safety considerations.

In a neat home, less hoarding clutter, the whole aura will be improved, rebuilding the daily plant room, saving the flooded living and dining room, accidentally harvested coffee reading area, different room separation, carrying a sense of belonging to home, so she is also looking forward to retirement home life.

80多歲的婆婆不小心跌傷了，做了髖關節手術，康復出院回家後需要在家好好休養，我們受婆婆家人的委託，在她出院前作家居上的修葺，以便婆婆適應往後的家居生活。

可是在規劃的過程當中因應婆婆的康復情況而調節。畢竟當時還未確定她出院後會否長期在家需要坐輪椅及日常起居的情況如何。
我們建議婆婆的家人先諮詢她的醫生及治療師，以便在整個修葺改造的規劃上有更好的安排以免造成浪費。

後來得到治療師在復健上的建議以配合婆婆的康復前題下，我們以幾個大原則進行：

✅ 1. 量度一下本身居住環境是否符合無障礙設計的寬敞通道，確保地面平坦無障礙，我們加添了收納的元素把不再需要用的東西丟掉，盡量保持家居地面平坦無障礙，通道寬敞，方便輪椅和助行器的使用。

✅ 2. 入口和門檻盡量設置低或冇門檻的入口，並確保門口闊度足夠便於長者進出。

✅ 3. 安裝堅固扶手和支撐物在走廊、浴室，以及房間，而一些扶手甚至有夜光，以及質感上有防滑手的功能，要視乎長者的需要而選購。

✅ 4. 選擇圓角家具和防撞設計，減少碰撞風險。

✅ 5. 良好的照明確保光線充足，但經驗發現有些光度對於長者來說會過光，反而會釀成他們習慣不開燈，所以好好與他們溝通，聆聽用家真正的需要以及因應他們的醫療狀況而定，不能以偏概全。

✅ 6. 創造舒服環境，使用柔和而溫暖的色調及易於清潔的裝飾材料提升復康空間的心理舒適度，增強心理上的安慰，環境配合長者的康復也會更理想。

✅ 7. 適當的採用隔音材料減少外部噪音，提供安靜的環境，最簡單的方法就是更換睡房的窗簾。

✅ 8. 如地方許可，可提供足夠的活動空間方便長者日常起居的走動。


✅✅總結:
一個精心設計的康復空間能夠促進婆婆的康復過程、以及增強心理上的安慰。

✅✅✅這裏有一個經驗分享，其實不用太早為正在治療中的長者及病患作家居上的改裝，因為畢竟要因應當事人的實際康復情況在諮詢治療師的前提下更會加事半功倍。也減少了不必要的浪費。


A lady over 80 years old, accidentally fell and injured herself and had hip surgery. She needs to rest at home after she recovers. We were entrusted by her family to repair her home before she was discharged from the hospital so that she can adapt to her future home life.

However, during the planning process, adjustments were made based on her. After all, it was not yet determined at that time whether she would need to use a wheelchair at home for a long time after being discharged from the hospital and what her daily life would be like.
We suggest that her family consult with her doctor and therapist first so that we can make better arrangements for the entire renovation plan to avoid waste.

Later, we received the therapist’s advice on rehabilitation.
We followed several general principles:

✅ 1. Measure whether the living environment meets the spacious passages of barrier-free design, and ensure that the floor is flat and barrier-free. We have added organizing elements to throw away things that are no longer needed, and try to keep the home floor flat and barrier-free, and the passages are spacious and convenient for wheelchair and walker use.

✅ 2. Try to set up an entrance with a low or no threshold at the entrance and threshold, and ensure that the doorway is wide enough for the elderly to enter and exit.

✅ 3. Install sturdy handrails and supports in corridors, bathrooms, and rooms. Some handrails are even luminous and have anti-slip texture. They should be purchased based on the needs of the elderly.

✅ 4. Choose furniture with rounded corners and anti-collision designs to reduce the risk of hurt.

✅ 5. Good lighting ensures sufficient light, but experience has found that some light levels may be too bright for the elderly, which may lead to their habit of not turning on the lights. Therefore, communicate with them well, listen to the users’ real needs, and respond to their medical needs. It depends on the situation and cannot be generalized.

✅ 6. Create a comfortable environment, use soft and warm colors and easy-to-clean decorative materials to enhance the psychological comfort of the rehabilitation space and enhance psychological comfort. The environment will be more ideal for the rehabilitation of the elderly.

✅ 7. Use sound insulation materials appropriately to reduce external noise and provide a quiet environment. The simplest way is to change the curtains in the bedroom.

✅ 8. If space is available, sufficient activity space can be provided to facilitate the elderly’s daily activities.


✅✅Summary:

A well-designed recovery space can facilitate the elderly recovery process and enhance psychological comfort.

✅✅✅Here is an experience sharing. In fact, there is no need to modify the home of the elderly and patients who are undergoing treatment too early, because after all, it is more efficient to get twice the result with half the effort after consulting the therapist based on the actual recovery situation of the client. It also reduces unnecessary waste.

80多歲的李伯伯曾經中風入院，經過一段時間的治療幸好康復回到家。
我們受伯伯家人的交託，以簡單而切合實際需要為目標去整頓家居。

✅我們先到伯伯的家視察，發現第一個最大問題是燈光嚴重不足，無論是廚房吊櫃底的燈、全屋的天花燈或櫃燈，都是燈膽壞了或燈飾太過殘舊而燒了，完全失去了照明的功能。

✅其實長者的家居，充足的光線、照明是十分重要的。

✅通道加建扶手，形成一條復健走廊，讓他進出房間及厠所都方便和安心。

✅另一個最大的改建是主人厠的浴缸，由於伯伯行動不太方便提腳，經過醫護的意見，拆去了原有浴缸改建成新浴扇，並於浴室及冲涼間加建扶手及防滑地磚；而浴室更添置了浴室寶，既可以讓室溫保持溫暖之外，也能夠為整個浴室的調節合適的乾爽，避免了浴室因太潮濕而容易滑到的風險。

✅最後，給用戶一些基本資料作保存，例如是大門入口、廚房、厠所、主人房以及通道的尺寸，以防再往後的日子需要有其他助行器協助的情況下也能有足夠空間進出進入。


Uncle Li, who is 80 years old, once suffered a stroke and was hospitalized. After a period of treatment, he recovered and returned home.

✅We were entrusted by Uncle Li's family to organize his home with simple and practical goals.

We first inspected his home and found that the first and biggest problem was a serious lack of lighting.
Whether it was the lights under the kitchen hang cabinets, the ceiling lights or hang cabinet lights throughout the house, the bulbs were broken or the lighting fixtures were too old and burned with completely lost its lighting function.

✅In fact, adequate lighting is very important in the elderly’s home.

✅Handrails were added to the passage to form a rehabilitation corridor, making it convenient and safe for him to enter and exit the room and toilet.

✅The other biggest renovation was the bathtub in the master bathroom. Since it was difficult for Uncle Li to move around and lift his feet, after receiving medical advice, the original bathtub was decided to remove and rebuilt into a new bath shower area.
✅Handrails and non-slip floor tiles were added in the bathroom and shower room. The bathroom also has a new thermo ventilator which can not only keep the room temperature warm, but also adjust the entire bathroom to a suitable dryness, avoiding the risk of the bathroom slipping due to being too humid.

✅Finally, we gave the user some basic information as recorded , such as the dimensions of the entrance, kitchen, toilet, master room and passage, so that there is enough space to enter and exit in case easily apply the walking aid assist in the future when need.

60多歲的陳伯伯因病而令眼睛不適，視力只餘下三成左右，我們受他的家人委托，改善伯伯的家居以配合他的生活情況。

✅第一次到陳伯伯家，發現很多客廳的傢俬是沒有固定的（因伯伯買的是散件傢俬），但以目前他的生活情況，我們建議將散件傢俬固定好牆身，加添支撐力，以免造成危險。

✅另外，傢俬擺位方面，我們將客廳原有的電視櫃貼客廳牆身擺放，讓客廳可行走的空間擴大，讓伯伯避免了因雜物或障礙物影響他日常的起居出入

✅不過對於視障者，還有一項很重要的留意，其實他們多數以「記憶」去認路綫，如果一個熟習很久的家居，經過整頓之後，其實我們要讓他熟習新的擺位，才能讓使用者安心運用有效的空間，作為設計師、收納師，這點要與家人及當事人好好溝通，讓大家做好心理準備，熟悉新的環境，才能事半功倍。


Uncle Chen, who is in his 60s, suffers from eye discomfort due to diabetes and his vision is only about 30%. We were entrusted by his family to improve his home to suit his living conditions.

✅When we went to Uncle Chen’s house for the first time, we found that many of the furniture in the living room were not fixed (because they bought loose furniture). However, based on his current living situation, we recommend that the loose furniture be fixed to the wall, by adding support to avoid danger.

✅In addition, in terms of furniture placement, we placed the original TV cabinet in the living room against the wall of the living room to expand the walking space in the living area and prevent the uncle from having clutter or obstacles that affect his daily life.

✅However, there is another very important thing to pay attention to for the visually impaired. In fact, most of them use "memory" to recognize the route. If a home that has been familiar to them for a long time has been reorganized, we actually need to make them familiar with the new positioning. Users can use the effective space with peace of mind. As a designer and organizer, this must be communicated well with family members and parties involved, so that everyone can be mentally prepared and familiar with the new environment, so that they can get twice the result with half the effort.

楊伯伯因身體不適入院，幸好在醫護的照顧下慢慢痊愈回家，但卻發現開始有認知障礙症的情況。
家人在了解伯伯的康復情況再配合職業治療師的建議：
✅房間添置一張醫療床以方便日常起居，其實睡床不一定是木器訂制，樂齡家居來說，重點是配合長者生活上的切實需要，這點要留意。

✅厠所- 某些長者不太方便提腳跨進浴缸，在安全考慮下拆除了原本的浴屏，加裝企缸扶手，但留意安裝扶手的位置有否水喉、煤氣喉或有關喉管，否則就會鑽穿而造成不必要的損壞。

✅通道- 優化通道及廚房通道，確保沒有障礙物而構成絆倒的風險。


Uncle Yang was admitted to the hospital due to unwellness. Fortunately, he slowly recovered and returned home under the care of medical staff. However, he was found to have started to develop dementia.
The family learned about the uncle's recovery and cooperated with the occupational therapist's advice:
✅ The room is equipped with a medical bed to facilitate daily living, in fact, the bed is not necessarily customized built in with wood material , for the elderly home, the focus is to meet the practical needs of the elderly in life, this point to pay attention.

✅ Toilet - Some elderly people are not convenient to lift their feet into the bathtub, under safety considerations removed the original shower cubical, by installed the shower handrail, but pay attention to the installation of the handrail location whether there is a water or gas conduit or related concealed trunkings, otherwise it will drill through and cause unnecessary damage.

✅ Access corridor - Optimize general corridor access and kitchen access to ensure there are no obstacles that pose a risk of tripping.