Focus Area: Eldercare

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

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

Jade Circle

  • Salvation Army Peacehaven Nursing Home

A new wing of a nursing home that demonstrates pioneering new services.

Eldercare

Gym Tonic

  • PulseSync
  • Bishan Community Club
  • Fei Yue
  • Care Corner Singapore
  • Tzu Chi
  • Montfort Care
  • NTUC Health
  • TOUCH Community Services
  • Our Tampines Hub
  • Salvation Army Peacehaven Nursing Home
  • and many more

A chain of 30 senior-friendly gyms that tackles physical frailty via a structured strength training programme.

Eldercare

Forget Us Not

  • Dementia Singapore
  • Khoo Teck Puat Hospital

Singapore’s first campaign to build a dementia-friendly community where hawkers, bus drivers, cashiers and others were trained to support Persons With Dementia.

Mental Health

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

Anita’s Nursing Home Stay

  • Anita Kapoor
  • Salvation Army Peacehaven Nursing Home
  • Plug+Play Productions

A documentary that followed TV host and caregiver Anita Kapoor who volunteered to spend two weeks in a Singapore nursing home.

Eldercare

Ingot PCC

  • PulseSync

Software-as-a-service to help community care providers deliver Person-Centred Care to their clients and families.

Eldercare

Genki Kaki

  • Plug+Play Productions

This 10-part series of short films and articles highlights the rich diversity of services for seniors in Japan – which has the world’s oldest population – and what fast ageing Singapore can learn from them.

Eldercare

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

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.

Mental Health

Post Diagnostic Support

  • Dementia Singapore
  • Khoo Teck Puat Hospital
  • Tan Tock Seng Hospital

A support programme for newly-diagnosed Persons With Dementia and their caregivers.

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