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Lifestyle
TAKING HEART

DBS Foundation in S$1.5 million partnership to scale micro-jobs for seniors

Young artists with disabilities such as Abraham Koh (standing) conduct art workshops for children at UOL's properties.
Lifestyle
TAKING HEART

UOL champions inclusive arts, as it reaches out to children, youth and seniors with disabilities

Perennial's Parry Avenue assisted living development show suite.
Opinion & Features
THE LEVEL GROUND

Charging S$8,900 or more a month for assisted living at Parry Avenue not a deal breaker

Perennial Holdings on Thursday opened its new assisted-living development, Perennial Living.
Property

Perennial opens S$260 million assisted-living facility with monthly rates from S$8,900 to S$17,000

Kwan Yi Rui (left), a third-year student from the NUS Faculty of Science, and Ng Zhi Ying (right), a third-year student from NUS Business School, recently completed a course where they befriended socially vulnerable seniors in the community.
Lifestyle
TAKING HEART

Mapletree donates S$3 million to NUS for service-learning courses to uplift 60,000 beneficiaries

Under Vers, owners of HDB flats aged 70 years and older will vote on whether the government should buy back their homes before their leases run out.
Opinion & Features
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Vers: Consider the vulnerable elderly

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Sunday (Aug 17) delivered his second National Day Rally since taking office last year.
Singapore

National Day Rally 2025 highlights: From jobseeker support to eldercare

The first Age Well Neighbourhoods will be in Toa Payoh and “one or two other areas with a high concentration of seniors”.
Singapore

National Day Rally: ‘Age Well Neighbourhoods’ can increase spaces, accessibility of services for seniors

From left: See Yen Theng, chief, caregiving and community mental health division, AIC; Tan Bee Yit, regional officer, Singapore region, Salvation Army; President Tharman Shanmugaratnam; Teo Shiyi, executive director, Peacehaven; Dr Katie Avery, education director, Peacehaven.
Lifestyle
TAKING HEART

Salvation Army raises S$450,000 for key programmes; launches initiative to support caregivers

FallSafe is currently in its proof-of-concept stage, which also involved developing a body motion tracker that has an accelerometer and gyroscope.
Lifestyle
TAKING HEART

Ngee Ann Poly students’ app uses tech, AI to help seniors avoid falls

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