AgeGracefully’s Founder, Tan Lee Tuan

AgeGracefully’s Founder, Tan Lee Tuan https://dbcsingapore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/agegracefullyshop_sq_carbon_design_sg_600x600-2-600x600-1-e1671068763401.png 573 568 Design Business Chamber Singapore Design Business Chamber Singapore https://dbcsingapore.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/agegracefullyshop_sq_carbon_design_sg_600x600-2-600x600-1-e1671068763401.png February 1, 2022 December 29, 2022

What inspires you?

Reading a book by Pastor Rick Warren titled “The Purpose Driven Life”.

Why do you do what you do?

In the pursuit of a purpose-driven life, I set up AgeGracefully to develop innovative eldercare lifestyle products that enable the elderly to live safely and age gracefully.

What changes would you like to see in the design ecosystem?

More commercially viable inclusive solutions. Solutions which are able to hit the right balance between commercial viability and inclusiveness.

What does design mean to you?

Design is an intriguing and functional expression of empathy.

What do you think design can do to change the world?

Design can persuade us to make better judgments.

_{Lee Tuan from Bekind Solutions is the man behind numerous elderly care products designed to empower seniors such as the Smart Walking Sticks collection.}