After a couple weeks of visiting different senior centers and gathering knowledge, class is back at school! It felt so different being inside for a couple hours as I became used to being out and about with my classmates. It was a busy day as we started off with the first of the current events presentations. One of the groups led a discussion about elders and driving such as if there should be a required test for elders to pass once they reach a certain age in order to assess their driving safety and the safety of those around them. It was an interesting discussion as it is a hard question to answer as being able to drive is very impactful for our societies. It is the way many people are able to access places like markets, work, friends, family as public transport can be unreliable, inaccessible or take a much longer time while private transport like uber, lyft, and taxis can be expensive. Becoming older can be senses will become less reliable but it is really difficult to answer how to make sure elders are able to keep their licenses or not because cars could be the only way they are able to live more freely. I agree that there should at least be visual assessment for driving past a certain age in terms of making sure they are wearing the proper vision correction glasses or contacts. After the current events presentation which also included a discussion about social isolation, we talked about our Neighborhood Assessment Projects. My group decided on assessing Sabre Springs so we are excited to see how it ranks for our six different categories. We also have the oral history projects next week and I will be presenting! I decided to visually make my project as a jewelry box with my grandma’s memories on hearts inside the box as she was a jewelry and the hearts relate to one of her memories so time to finish that up right now!
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