by Eleanor Yap | Oct 12, 2023 | Health
CareShield Plus policyholders will receive 100-percent monthly payout for up to 12 months when they are unable to perform one Activity of Daily Living. Financial services company Singlife has launched of two new add-on benefits for its CareShield Standard and...
by Site Admin | May 10, 2022 | Miscellaneous
An information hub to support stakeholders in their disability inclusion journey. SG Enable, the focal agency for disability in Singapore, has launched its newly revamped and mobile-friendly corporate website – www.sgenable.sg – to provide a more seamless user...
by Eleanor Yap | Nov 22, 2016 | Inspiring Figures
Being disabled does not mean that one can’t do things, it just means changing the way one does things, as a couple of 35 years shared. BY: Sylvia Soh Irene Toh, 57, and Esmond Tan, 66, have lived with a disability since when they were in their childhood. Both suffered...
by Eleanor Yap | Aug 18, 2016 | Miscellaneous
15 travel tips for seniors with various disabilities, so you can travel with ease and enjoy your time away. Travelling can be a hardship for those with disabilities, making it tough then to consider going anyway outside of your own country. How can travelling be...
by Eleanor Yap | Feb 10, 2016 | Miscellaneous
Lonely Planet has come up with a collection of online resources that will allow those with a disability to travel with peace of mind. Hard of hearing or vision-impaired? A wheelchair user or slow walker? Fibromyalgia, MS or spinal-cord injury? None of these...
by Eleanor Yap | May 12, 2015 | Miscellaneous
Lonely Planet’s Martin Heng shares how to make travelling less frustrating for seniors and those with physical disabilities. Travelling is supposed to be fun. However, if one is disabled, it can be a frustrating experience. Ageless Online chats with 52-year-old...
by Eleanor Yap | Jun 5, 2013 | Caregiving
A social enterprise that sells adaptive clothing, which allows those with limited mobility to dress themselves. BY: Eleanor Yap It was all a chance encounter that took 39-year-old Shamla Ramasamy down the social enterprise path. She was doing some...
by Eleanor Yap | May 22, 2012 | Finance
How much do I need? Is there an age limit? How do I prevent duplicate coverage? These questions and more will be answered. Health insurance is something we don’t really think about very much especially when we are in the pink of health. But what happens when...
by Eleanor Yap | Apr 26, 2011 | Inspiring Figures
Losing one’s sight would have fell the most staunchest of men. But for one man, he used that setback to become a champion for the visually-handicapped. BY: Tan Boon Leng When the light of sight went out in 1968, the then 29-year-old, ex-Raffles Institution student Tan...