by Eleanor Yap | Oct 28, 2015 | Health
Melissa Chan was 14 when her father was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Her journey has taken her on a path to help other youths to understand the disease and find support. BY: Eleanor Yap When a loved one has dementia, it often affects the spouse and other...
by Eleanor Yap | Apr 20, 2015 | Miscellaneous
SST student teams focused on helping seniors so they could live their lives as independently as possible. BY: Eleanor Yap Three years ago, 12-year-old Chen Ruile saw her 89-year-old grandmother take a fall. She explained that her grandmother was living in the old HDB...
by Eleanor Yap | Mar 23, 2015 | Health
Students from Nanyang Polytechnic teach seniors how to use iPads and lead a qigong session. Fifty students from Nanyang Polytechnic’s (NYP) Students’ Union organised an iPad training session recently with 50 seniors from Thye Hua Kwan’s Senior Activity Centre...
by Eleanor Yap | Nov 20, 2014 | Miscellaneous
At this year’s SoCh event, seniors shared their past with the students from various schools at the Ageless Online booth. Seniors got to share their past with students, teachers and parents at the Ageless Online booth recently at SoCh, Singapore’s largest...
by Eleanor Yap | Sep 3, 2012 | Health
A youth movement called Project One More Thing helps fulfil wishes of neglected elderly. BY: Eleanor Yap We all have a wish that we would like to see come true. And more so the elderly from the hospices, daycare centres and poorer neighbourhoods. Two “fairy...
