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

Eldercare

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.

Eldercare

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.

Eldercare

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