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.
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Second Beginnings
A book on how unused and underused spaces in land-scarce Singapore can be repurposed to create thriving communities for seniors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Care Beyond Walls
- AWWA
- Elias Park Primary School
- Jamiyah Childcare Centre
- Sri Darma Muneeswaran Temple
- The Care Lab
- IELO
- Tri-Sector Associates
A transformation of a cluster of eldercare centres and services at Ang Mo Kio.
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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.
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Future-Directed Social Service Agency
- Care Corner Singapore
A new approach to innovation in social service by investing in new capabilities across Care Corner to develop the ability to be agile and responsive to the changing needs of service users.
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