Approach: Creative

Seniors Go!

In Seniors Go! we train seniors recruited from various SSAs we work with, in a variety of activities, hobbies, skills and more.

Eldercare

Inheritage

A lion dance training programme specially-designed for seniors, including those with mobility challenges, by lion dance masters.

Eldercare

Life Before Death

  • Ang Chin Moh Foundation
  • HCA Hospice Care
  • Lien Centre for Palliative Care
  • Moonshine Agency
  • Singapore Hospice Council
  • Singapore Press Holdings
  • St Joseph’s Home and Hospice

A series of advocacy campaigns to raise public awareness about end-of-life issues.

Palliative Care

Design for Death

  • Ang Chin Moh Foundation
  • National Funeral Directors’ Association, USA
  • Designboom

Design for Death was an international competition in 2013 that aimed to use design innovations to improve the way in which we say goodbye. The brief for the competition, which drew entries from designers, artists and architects across the globe, was to “re-imagine and re-design” deathcare.

Palliative Care

Hospitable Hospice

  • Ang Chin Moh Foundation
  • Assisi Hospice
  • Dover Park Hospice
  • St Joseph’s Home and Hospice

A design blueprint on how Singapore can develop the next generation of in-patient hospices.

Palliative Care

Both Sides Now

  • Ang Chin Moh Foundation
  • Drama Box
  • ArtsWok Collaborative

An arts programme that provokes end-of-life conversations among healthcare professionals, caregivers and the public.

Palliative Care

Die Die Must Say

  • Ang Chin Moh Foundation
  • Care Corner Counselling Centre
  • Capital 95.8
  • Shin Min Daily News

A series of “getai” shows to generate conversations about death and dying.

Palliative Care

Hack Our Play

  • St James' Church Kindergarten
  • Participate in Design

A co-creation initiative by preschool children, educators, parents and members of the community to design their very own play space.

Maternal & Child Health

After Cicely 50

  • Cicely Saunders Institute
  • Dying Matters
  • Hospice UK
  • Murray Hall Community Trust
  • Pushing Up Daisies
  • St Christopher's Hospice
  • St Joseph’s Hospice

A commemorative project that heralds 50 years since the founding of modern hospice movement in the UK led by Dame Cicely Saunders.

Palliative Care

Second Beginnings

A book on how unused and underused spaces in land-scarce Singapore can be repurposed to create thriving communities for seniors.

Eldercare

Personally Speaking

  • Ngee Ann Polytechnic
  • Objectifs

A visual arts exhibition that took an unvarnished look at the grit, grace, challenges and rewards of caring for people with special needs, mental illness and frail or ill elderly.

Eldercare

Hack Care

  • Lekker Architects
  • Lanzavecchia + Wai Design Studio

A tongue-in-cheek guide, styled like an IKEA catalogue, offering tips and tricks to make the home a friendlier place for Persons With Dementia.

Eldercare

Care Beyond Walls

  • AWWA
  • Elias Park Primary School
  • Jamiyah Childcare Centre
  • The Care Lab
  • Sri Darma Muneeswaran Temple
  • IELO
  • Tri-Sector Associates
  • and many more

A transformation of a cluster of eldercare centres and services at Ang Mo Kio.

Eldercare

Reunion

  • National Museum of Singapore
  • RSP Architects

The first purpose-built social space for seniors in a local museum, Reunion provides a non-medical intervention that supports the health and well-being of seniors, including those with mild cognitive impairment and dementia.

Eldercare

Oasis@Outram

  • HCA Hospice Care
  • The Care Lab
  • Lekker Architects

A next-generation day hospice featuring, among other things, an open bar and a “spalon” for manicures, massages and haircuts.

Palliative Care