Search results for: Eldercare
Projects & Releases (21)
Pillar Of Care: Foreign Workers
Enabling foreign healthcare staff, a cornerstone of Singapore’s care sector, to pursue higher education.
SoundKeepers
Development of a new AI tool and community intervention programme to detect and manage early signs of depression in seniors
Seniors Go!
In Seniors Go! we train seniors recruited from various SSAs we work with, in a variety of activities, hobbies, skills and more.
Inheritage
A lion dance training programme specially-designed for seniors, including those with mobility challenges, by lion dance masters.
Gym Tonic
A chain of 30 senior-friendly gyms that tackles physical frailty via a structured strength training programme.
Forget Us Not
Singapore’s first campaign to build a dementia-friendly community where hawkers, bus drivers, cashiers and others were trained to support Persons With Dementia.
The Economics of Singapore Nursing Home Care
A cost report on an alternative model of nursing homes comprising only single or double-bedded rooms.
Safe but Soulless
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.
Anita’s Nursing Home Stay
A documentary that followed TV host and caregiver Anita Kapoor who volunteered to spend two weeks in a Singapore nursing home.
Ingot PCC
Software-as-a-service to help community care providers deliver Person-Centred Care to their clients and families.
Genki Kaki
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.
Second Beginnings
A book on how unused and underused spaces in land-scarce Singapore can be repurposed to create thriving communities for seniors.
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.
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.
Personally Speaking
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.
Hack Care
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.
Post Diagnostic Support
A support programme for newly-diagnosed Persons With Dementia and their caregivers.
Dementia Innovation Readiness Index 2020
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.
Navigating a New Reality
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.
