by Eleanor Yap | Jul 5, 2024 | Health
Breast Cancer Foundation plans to enhance programmes and collaborate with related organisations. Breast Cancer Foundation (BCF), in collaboration with Roche and the Society of Behavioral Health Singapore, conducted a multi-sectoral workshop involving Malay...
by Eleanor Yap | Jun 21, 2024 | Health
Actress Michelle Chong’s father, Steven Chong, embraces the purposeful concept of Ikigai in his daily life. Steven Chong, whom is best known as “Papa Chong” and father of Singaporean actress and comedian Michelle Chong, has had his fair share of medical scares...
by Eleanor Yap | Jun 21, 2024 | Products
Looking for a prevention measure or to help with joint pain, consider this chondroitin range. Japanese pharmaceutical company Zeria Pharmaceutical Co Ltd is now selling its chondroitin products in Singapore. Chondroitin is a key component of cartilage found in...
by Eleanor Yap | Jun 18, 2024 | Miscellaneous
The President’s Volunteerism & Philanthropy Awards 2024 are now open for nominations. Nominations are now open for the President’s Volunteerism & Philanthropy Awards 2024. Under the People of Good Ward, there is the People of Good recognising everyday...
by Eleanor Yap | Jun 4, 2024 | Health
A breast survivor shares tips for other women going through similar experiences. It was only at the age of 49 that Linda Tam realised that she had not done a mammogram. She was volunteering at the time as a receptionist at non-profit Breast Cancer Foundation...
by Eleanor Yap | May 31, 2024 | Miscellaneous
Contestants need to conduct a short video interview or post a photo with insights from their fathers/father figures, who may be relatives, friends, colleagues, mentors, teachers or grandfathers, and upload to Instagram. The Lien Foundation is launching...
by Eleanor Yap | May 31, 2024 | Health
The virus could potentially wreak havoc among older adults aged 60 years or over and with an underlying medical condition. Biopharma company GSK’s Arexvy has been approved by the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) of Singapore for active immunisation for the...
by Eleanor Yap | May 28, 2024 | Health
Tan Hoon Keng never thought she would get shingles and now having had it 10 years ago, she still isn’t fully recovered. Tan Hoon Keng, 75, never thought she would get shingles, which is a viral infection that causes a painful rash, but she did. It was one...
by Eleanor Yap | May 24, 2024 | Caregiving, Inspiring Figures
Seventy-one-year-old Chong Ooi goes from a purchasing officer in the air-conditioning industry to a care coordinator in the eldercare sector and continues to keep his head-up despite challenges. In 2012, 60-year-old Chong Ooi took on a caregiving role when his...
by Eleanor Yap | May 7, 2024 | Health
Roche launches National Women’s Check-Up Week for the second year. Biotechnology company Roche has launched National Women’s Check-Up Week (NWCW) in Singapore for the second year to empower women to take action and control of their own health. In...
by Eleanor Yap | Apr 25, 2024 | Health
Seniors get to start exercising and at the end of the session, they are given a complimentary meal. Get moving and get rewarded. St Luke’s Eldercare (SLEC) has introduced a programme called WE! (Workout Empowerment!), an incentive-based fitness programme to get...
by Eleanor Yap | Apr 13, 2024 | Miscellaneous
Working with community partners, there are over 25 programmes for everyone to enjoy. The character of a neighbourhood is defined by its spaces, the activities that take place at such spaces, and the people who live, work and play in each neighbourhood. The...
by Eleanor Yap | Apr 7, 2024 | Miscellaneous
They explored online shopping experiences through hands-on activities at the event, which was part of Chong Pang GROs and Shopee’s educational and community-building efforts to build seniors’ online confidence. Seniors and their families in Chong Pang recently...
by Eleanor Yap | Apr 7, 2024 | Health
According to a doctor, the mean age was 33, however in recent years, older male patients above 42 have increased, with the oldest being 70. Dr Ivan Puah, a Singapore Ministry of Health-accredited liposuction doctor with years of experience in gynecomastia and...
by Eleanor Yap | Mar 22, 2024 | Miscellaneous
Voices of Singapore’s community concert, “Concert of the People”, returns this May. Catch the members of Voices of Singapore’s (VOS) Silver Voices and other VOS’ community choirs in a unique concert-singalong called “Concert of the People” on May 5 at...
