Approach: Research

SoundKeepers

  • IMH
  • Nanyang Technological University
  • NHG Polyclinics
  • Club HEAL
  • Fei Yue Community Services

Development of a new AI tool and community intervention programme to detect and manage early signs of depression in seniors

Mental Health

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

Quality of Death Index

  • Economist Intelligence Unit
  • Lien Centre for Palliative Care

A series of studies comparing the provision of palliative care across different countries. Published in 2010, 2015 and 2021.

Palliative Care

Safe but Soulless

  • Khoo Chwee Neo Foundation

A 130-page study released in Oct 2016 that examines best practices, concerns and policy choices for nursing home care in Singapore at a time when more homes are being built than ever before.

Eldercare

ECHO Framework

  • KK Women's and Children's Hospital
  • Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities

Establishes a framework and common standards to optimise the potential of children with special needs by bringing therapy into daily experiences.

Maternal & Child Health

Second Beginnings

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

Eldercare

Long Term Care Manpower Study

A research study that shows how long term care workers in Singapore are dogged by low pay and limited prospects, via comparison to care workers in four other fast-ageing Asia-Pacific economies – Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and South Korea.

Eldercare

Care Where You Are

A 232-page research report which throws light on the state of formal centre-based and home-based care for seniors in Singapore, acknowledges strengths, showcases innovations, identifies unmet needs and suggests recommendations.

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.

Mental Health

Dementia Innovation Readiness Index 2020

  • Global Coalition on Aging
  • Alzheimer's Disease International

As societies age and dementia becomes more common, this Index issues a clear call to city-level leaders to help cities learn from each other on how to best manage this great, global challenge to health and social care.

Mental Health

Navigating a New Reality

  • Oliver Wyman

A quick, contemporaneous account of the first six months of the COVID-19 crisis as seen through the eyes of some of Singapore’s long-term care (LTC) operators.

Eldercare

CHILD

  • NUS Medicine
  • A*STAR’s Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS)
  • Centre for Evidence and Implementation (CEI)

The Centre for Holistic Initiatives for Learning and Development was established to translate critical research to intervention to improve health and developmental outcomes of children in Singapore and beyond.

Maternal & Child Health

Hacking Ageing

  • Centre for Healthy Longevity
  • NUS Medicine

A series of initiatives with the Centre for Healthy Longevity to transform Singapore’s healthcare from reactive ‘sick care’ towards a population health prevention approach, to extend life spent in good health.

Eldercare