Insights to healthy ageing

Insights to healthy ageing

Herbalife Nutrition releases survey on the meaning of healthy ageing, lifestyle changes for healthy ageing, and key motivators and influencers for healthy ageing.   Global nutrition company, Herbalife Nutrition, released findings from its 2018 Asia Pacific...
Don’t miss the signs of a breaking spine

Don’t miss the signs of a breaking spine

Up to 70 percent of vertebral fractures don’t come to clinical attention.   Osteoporosis, a disease which causes bones to become weak and fragile, is the cause of broken bones in approximately one in three women and one in five men aged over 50 worldwide. Spine...
Promoting breast cancer awareness

Promoting breast cancer awareness

Concord International Hospital launches campaign and is one of the hospitals participating in the Mammogram Funding Assistance programme.   Concord International Hospital (CIH) has launched #SharingtheWordbyCIH campaign to increase awareness and encourage...
CPR self-learning kiosks islandwide

CPR self-learning kiosks islandwide

This is to increase cardiac arrest awareness and the number of people trained in CPR.   Want to learn CPR? There are now CPR self-learning kiosks islandwide, in an effort to increase cardiac arrest awareness and the number of people trained in CPR. These kiosks,...
Homemade live yogurt

Homemade live yogurt

Ayam Brand Nutrition launches a yogurt where you just add water.   Ayam Brand Nutrition has launched its Homemade Live Yogurt, left, where each 200g jar contains 80 billion live cultures (CFUs). It contains two different types of digestion-helpful bacteria:...
Celebrating active seniors

Celebrating active seniors

A photography exhibition showcasing examples that say being old doesn’t mean being useless. Photographer Foong Lian Fey’s mother, Mrs Foong, was 81 when she first took up Chinese painting and today, at 86, she was still continuing with her hobby before having pain in...
Climbing your mountain

Climbing your mountain

Seniors and family members or community members climb Mount Faber raising awareness about empowerment, inclusivity and positive ageing. In conjunction with International Day of Older Persons’ celebrations in Singapore, 201 seniors and 180 younger family members...
Giving thanks to loved ones

Giving thanks to loved ones

RSVP senior volunteers encourage other seniors to give thanks.   Express thanks and strengthen relationships with your loved ones through simple acts of gratitude – that is the message that senior volunteers want to instil to their peers. The senior volunteers...
Bringing care into the community

Bringing care into the community

Our SilverCare Hub brings together healthcare and social care providers to help seniors across different care settings.   Seventy-one-year-old Madam D has heart failure and multiple chronic conditions. She was referred from Changi General Hospital (CGH) in March...
Turning silver years into golden years 

Turning silver years into golden years 

The second ARISE event focused on frailty, loneliness and ageing.   At the second ARISE (Ageing Research Institute for Society and Education) Industry & Community Engagement event, the focus was on frailty, loneliness and ageing. The first keynote address was...
The best moments of your life

The best moments of your life

Lonely Planet shares 100 inspiring stories in a new book so readers can think a little differently about the world.   What’s the best moment of your life? It’s a simple question to ask, a much harder one to answer. In the 272-page “The Best Moment of Your Life”...
Mobile community health

Mobile community health

Singapore Red Cross’s Community Health on Wheels delivers free ancillary services to seniors in the heartlands.   Singapore Red Cross’ (SRC) Community Health on Wheels (CHoW) is a community-based mobile healthcare programme that brings free ancillary services and...
Untold stories of Singapore

Untold stories of Singapore

NLB is looking for a number of materials dated before 1970.   Celebrating its 50thanniversary this year, the National Archives of Singapore (NAS) is calling for donations of historical materials related to Singapore’s past and has launched an oral history video...

Protect yourself from online scams

Recognise the various scams and know what you should do.   In February this year, the Media Literacy Council (MLC) marked the world’s annual Safer Internet Day (SID) with the launch of the fifth edition of the Better Internet Campaign (BIC). A public awareness...