Archives: Projects

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.

Eldercare

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

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

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

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.

Palliative Care