STEP | STORYBOARD Somewhere in the north of SjĂŚlland...
Gerda is 85. She lives in the outskirts of Denmark, where there is a lack of transportation possibilities. There are 2 km to the closest bus stop, but she doesn’t have the courage to go that far away by herself.
She has accepted the routine of living alone, and feels more comfortable in her usual surroundings. Her family lives far away, but she loves when they have time to visit her. She tracks the time with a calendar in the kitchen where she crosses out the days. This way she knows how many days are left until the next visit.
But even though she is resigned to have this lifestyle, sometimes she missess the times when she was independent and did not have to spend all her time sitting at home.
But one day...
She receives a letter from the municipality, with information about a new transportation service called STEP.
Attached with the local newspaper, she finds a schedule with activities taking place during the following week, and a set of stickers with the same activities.
She finds it interesting, and decides to give it a chance and sign up for one of the activities.
But she is not the only one. At the same time, only a couple of kilometres away, Hans is using his smartphone to sign up for the same activity.
8am, a few days later...
In order not to forget about it, she places the corresponding sticker in the calendar she has in the kitchen.
And Hans adds the activiy in his mobile calendar.
Gerda checks her calendar when she wakes up, and remembers that today she is going to the activity centre. She feels curious and excited about it.
At the same time, Hans gets a notification on his smartphone to remind him about the activity.
STEP | STORYBOARD 9.20am, the telephone rings.
9.30am
Hi Gerda, this is Anders, from STEP. Get ready to go out, we’ll pick you up in 10 min!
Good morning Gerda!
Gerda gets her coat and her purse. She is ready to go to the activity centre!
When the bus arrives to Gerda’s house, the driver honks the horn to let her know that they are there. Gerda, who is already prepared, immediately leaves her house and gets into the bus.
When she gets into the bus, Anders, the bus driver, greets her and checks her name in the system.
10am
In the bus, Gerda sits down and meets Hans, who lives just a few kilometres away but they have never seen each other before. Since both of them are going to participate in the same activity, they start chatting during the journey.
When the activity is over, the STEP bus is already waiting for the participants in front of the door. The bus drives all the way back and brings everyone back home.
At the expected time, the bus stops right in front of the door of the activity centre, and all the passengers go inside.
At the activity centre, Gerda participates actively in the workshop. She meets some new people who also go there regularly, and they all have some laughs together.
Because Gerda enjoyed the workshop so much, she decides to keep using STEP and join more activities. She also keeps in touch with the other people that she met at the activity centre, who are also participating in a lot of the scheduled activities.
Now her weeks are filled with activities that break her routine, and she does not have to stay at home all the time.