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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuPJrkE-CSA

This is a link to a YouTube video called Video Game and Fall Prevention.

In this video, they show a little clip of a video game that patients used in order to prevent their falling in the future. This is a good example of a simple game.

Blog 16: Answer 2

1. What is your EQ?

What is the best way for a healthcare professional to reduce the risk of falling in the elderly?

2. What is your first answer?

The best way for a healthcare professional to reduce the risk of falling in the elderly is to keep the patient active through physical activities in order to strengthen muscles and stability.

3. What is your second answer?

The best way for a healthcare professional to reduce the risk of falling in the elderly is to continue physical activity through the used of a video game.

4. List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• Doing the sit to stand movement increases the muscle in the thigh. Increased strength reduces risk. Doing this with the game makes it more fun for the patient as well as healthcare provider. 
• Parting the Horses Mane helps with balance for the elderly, decreasing fall risk. Doing this in the game makes it more fun for the patient. 
• One Leg Stand helps balance in the elder, decreasing fall risk. Doing this will the came makes it more fun for the patient. 

5. What printed source best supports your answer?

Power Training: Can it Improve Functional Performance  in Older Adults?

6. What other source supports your answer?

General Studies of the Sit to Stand Movement

7. Tie this together with a concluding thought. 

I think that using these techniques and keeping elders active will reduce their risk of falling and reduce falling in general. 

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1. For my second independent component, I plan on doing some more mentorship and starting to plan to design my own mini game for Health in motion. I will come up with the exercise that I will be using and the setting of the game. This will help me get into the workings of creating a fall prevention game.

2. I will storyboard my own mini game that I have created and turn it in on the due date.

3. Working at my mentorship helps me see the excises put in action through the game and why they help the elders. Taking what I learn there and transferring into making my own mini game will really solidify what I have learned and make it into my own creation.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

LITERAL

(a) I, Hannah Seyffert, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

(b) Since I did extra mentorship for this component, my mentor Nina Withrington helped me complete my independent component. 

(c) See Working Bibliography

(d) I completed more mentorship hours at the Blue Marble Game Co. for my first independent component. I game tested, sat in on meetings, data checked, and basically shadowed my mentor throughout this component. I'm pretty much an intern. I help them do actual work that needs to be done.

INTERPRETIVE

My senior project is on Elderly Care, but focused on the Fall Prevention aspect of that care. By doing extra mentorship, I got to see the way things are run in a company that create games to help prevent falls. Data checking,game testing, writing up bugs, having meetings about the games, looking at all of the exercises; these are the things that helped me create my first answer for my Essential Question. It is a process, but if it reduces fall risk and the overall death rate among the elderly, it's worth it.

 This photo is an example of some game testing. As you may have noticed in the upper right portion of the screen, some words are being covered by the title of the game. This is called a bug. This is not supposed to happen. The words are telling us that there was an issue with the network connection so it wasn't able to log in to the server. With it being covered like that, the player will be less likely to notice it, or even, be able to read it clearly. In fact, I did not notice it until Jake said something when he took a look at it.

This is another example of a bug in the game. As you can see, on the results page for the exercises, it mentions the "Chair Stand Test" twice. It should only be mentioned once, since I only completed the task once.

APPLIED

Doing more mentorship helped me see why fall prevention is so important. I also learned through the process why certain exercises were chosen for the game. Some are better than others at decreasing your fall risk, and it is important to know which ones in order to create the most efficient and effective way to prevent a fall. Sitting in on meetings and discussions helped me see the professionals' thought processes and how they come to their conclusions about the game. I also got to see an elder play the game and how they interacted with the game. The exercises can be difficult for them even though they're not difficult for a young teen like me. So seeing that and how their muscles improve through that also helps me answer my Essential Question.

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I've had many peers ask me what my second and third answers are going to be to my Essential Question and I haven't really been able to answer their question. But this is something I really have to start thinking about.

I'll remind you that my Essentioal Question is: What is the best way for a health care professional to reduce the risk of falling in the elderly?

Since my mentorship is basically all about Health in Motion and the game in general, it is hard for mew to think of answers besides that one. I will discuss it with my mentor.

My first answer was staying active to keep stability and muscle mass in order to decrease the risk of falling. Some possibilities for my second and third answers are:

• Using a physically interactive video game.
• Being put in a wheelchair or other assistive device. (Not the best choice. "Helpful Hazard")
• Adding safety features to your home, like railings.
• Being put in a home so that the patient can be monitored and assisted.

All of these things are possibilities for my next two answers. I will put in more research to all of them, and then make a decision based off of my findings.

Blog 13: Lesson 2 Reflection

1. What are you most proud of in your Lesson2 Presentation and why?

I'm proud that I had enough content to talk about and did it even though I did not have as much breathing room. As in I kind of rushed through because I did not want to keep the class late, but I still made time.

2. a. What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

P

b. Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

I think I have good volume and presence while I present and make good eye contact with the audience. I had a board stating my EQ, made a powerpoint, and used all of my time talking and doing the activity and didn't waste any time. I had sources for my research. And I believe I completed all of the P requirements on the contract.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

I think I talked really well to my audience. I only stuttered a couple of times, so it overall went pretty smoothly.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your lesson 2?

Not many people actually got into and did my activity, which was kind of annoying. I understand it was the end of the day. So maybe I would make it more interesting somehow next time and have some sort of reward for the people who accomplished the task and did it the best and actually put effort in.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

My answer two could be the actual game playing as opposed to just doing the exercises.

Blog 12: Mentorship Hours

1. Where are you doing your mentorship?

I am doing my mentorship at the Blue Marble Game Company.

2. Who is your contact?

Nina Withrington

3. How many total hours have you done?

I have done a total of 30 hours, plus the 10 from my summer mentorship.

4. Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.

Basically, then 10 summer hours were an introduction into what they do at BMGC. I got to play around with Health in Motion(previously called Zoezi Park), Treasure of Bell Island, and RESET; these are the games that they have created and are in the process of improving and adding on to. I was taught how to play test the games and write up bugs to be fixed. Also, my mentor showed me one of the main sources of their information. This helped me later on to do my own research for the project.