by Eleanor Yap | Feb 13, 2018 | Health
Four NTU students’ final-year project aims to bring awareness on eye diseases and regular screening. With Singapore’s ageing population, coupled with the country’s high myopia rates, four final-year students from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and...
by Eleanor Yap | Feb 12, 2018 | Miscellaneous
If you embrace IT in your daily life and inspire your peers, nominate yourself or a friend. The 2018 Silver Infocomm Wellness Ambassador nomination is now open! So, if you are 50 and above, and embrace IT in your daily lives and inspire your peers to do the...
by Eleanor Yap | Feb 8, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Make these small steps for long-term wellness. BY: Chua Kay Tse With Chinese New Year just around the corner, many of us might have started indulging in festive goodies but don’t let slip of our health resolutions. Here are top five tips to maintain overall wellness...
by Eleanor Yap | Feb 7, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Discover the various countries and cultures all through your tastebuds. Foodies can rejoice! Insight Vacations has come up with 10 curated food experiences when you travel to Europe. From oyster tasting in Croatia to a paella demonstration in Valencia, Spain,...
by Eleanor Yap | Feb 5, 2018 | Health
Active Health launches second lab at Bedok to get people to better understand their health and fitness levels. Active Health, a social movement run by Sport Singapore to encourage Singaporeans to proactively take charge of their health and wellness, has opened...
by Eleanor Yap | Feb 2, 2018 | Miscellaneous
The Necessary Stage’s Theatre For Seniors is conducting a script-centred workshop in February. The Necessary Stage’s Theatre For Seniors is conducting a script-centred workshop, mostly conducted in English, which will focus on a script from renowned...
by Eleanor Yap | Jan 30, 2018 | Health
The Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Welfare Foundation this year awarded three grants to projects related to improving senior’s welfare, including a fall detection monitoring system. BY: Eleanor Yap Seniors can continue living independently in their communities and...
by Eleanor Yap | Jan 29, 2018 | Health
What’s in store? Find out more. BY: Dr Sneh Khemka Global healthcare trends: Trend 1 – Burgeoning global middle class. The world’s middle class is growing (in particular across the Middle East and Asia), providing the backbone of a revolution in healthcare...
by Eleanor Yap | Jan 25, 2018 | Reflections
2011 Active Ager award winner Dr William Wan shares his thoughts on turning 70. BY: Dr William Wan I am 70 and I feel that life has just begun. This feeling is shared by many septuagenarians. May Sarton has written “At Seventy: A Journal” and Judith Viorst, “I’m, Too...
by Eleanor Yap | Jan 23, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Kodrah Kristang is offering free classes so you can learn the endangered language of the Portuguese-Eurasian community. Want to learn a new language? Why not consider an endangered language called Kristang, which is one of the heritage languages of the...
by Eleanor Yap | Jan 16, 2018 | Products
Watsons Singapore launches a supplement that may promote healthy ageing. Watsons Singapore has partnered with ChromaDex, a US-listed company in science-based nutrition, to launch Tru Niagen, a dietary supplement that may promote healthy ageing by significantly...
by Eleanor Yap | Jan 15, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Asian Film Archive’s State of Motion 2018 brings a lineup of seminal Malay films, an exhibition and guided film location tours. Revisit Singapore’s past through several seminal Malay films like P Ramlee’s “Ibu Mertua Ku” (My Mother-in-Law) and L Krishnan’s...
by Eleanor Yap | Jan 11, 2018 | Finance
Mercer ageing workforce report shares that Singapore productivity loss due to sickness absenteeism may reach S$3.3 billion by 2030. The ageing workforce and medical cost inflation in Singapore are projected to drive up average medical costs per employee by 108...
by Eleanor Yap | Jan 10, 2018 | Products
Improve your good-to-bad bacteria ratio in your gut and boost your digestive health. Australia-based Capilano Honey has launched the world’s first clinically-tested honey with naturally-occurring prebiotics called Beeotic that can improve the good-to-bad...
by Eleanor Yap | Jan 9, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Going alone on a trip? There is an ultimate guide to help put you at ease. Worried about travelling alone? Lonely Planet has released an ultimate guide for solo travellers. In a recent survey of travellers in Lonely Planet’s community, 80 percent of respondents...
