Incorporating Ikigai

Incorporating Ikigai

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...
Joint support

Joint support

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...
Nominate exceptional givers

Nominate exceptional givers

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...
Being a warrior

Being a warrior

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...
Having a “very stressful disease”

Having a “very stressful disease”

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...
Switching careers

Switching careers

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...
Get screened

Get screened

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...
Get moving and get rewarded!

Get moving and get rewarded!

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...
An outdoor singalong concert

An outdoor singalong concert

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...
Online nomination of beneficiary

Online nomination of beneficiary

Previously Prudential policyholders had to submit a hard copy via post or in person at the customer service centre.   Want to nominate your beneficiary for your Prudential Singapore policy? Now you can online. Prudential is the first insurer here in Singapore to...