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SINGAPORE – The year-end festive season is here and social gatherings are in full swing.
For some, it could be the first time in three years meeting friends and family and feasting together in…
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Apart from participating in volunteer-led activities for seniors at Lions Befrienders, he also gives back to the community by sharing his life experiences with students
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SINGAPORE – The phrase “person with dementia”, or PWD, often leads to a mental image of someone who is helpless and needs care.
But Singaporeans Alison Lim and Anjang Rosli are changing that…
/articles/when-retirement-means-celebrating-days-jubilation
How we see seniors in our midst shapes how we think of ourselves. Words matter, and that’s why I’m ‘le ling’ and ‘warga emas’.
Chung Yin Wah
“We are LKKs. You know, lau kok kok,” said…
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“I’ve never imagined that one day, I would be able to publish a book. I can’t wait for it to be launched at the National Library in March next year.” - Ang Siew Mui, 74
/articles/former-engineer-70-can-edit-videos-better-her-grandchildren
SINGAPORE – Retiree Ho Soo Pong has 2,000 subscribers on YouTube; but it bothers her not if she has 20 or 200,000.
For the 70-year-old, uploading YouTube videos is more about teaching others,…
/articles/retiree-revisits-childhood-dream-film-making-turning-youtube
SINGAPORE – In his youth, Mr Chang Swee Wah loved cinema outings and dreamt of making his own movies.
After the former civil engineer retired, he returned to this childhood dream of film-…
/articles/yen-record-low-japan-offers-amazing-value-top-tips-travellers
He has not spoken English for three years, says the fatherly volunteer at the tourist office. “But we are ready. It is a long wait,” he says animatedly.
He urges me to spend some tranquil,…
/articles/4000-seniors-participate-inaugural-event-promoting-healthy-meaningful-activities
SINGAPORE - Some 4,000 seniors on Wednesday took part at an event aiming to empower elderly residents here to pursue healthy and meaningful activities, regardless of their overall physical condition…
/articles/after-warming-volunteers-retiree-now-advocate-care-centre
Retired timber worker Lim Thiam Teng calls the Montfort Care GoodLife! centre in Marine Parade his second home.
He cycles there thrice weekly, spending about an hour each time playing bingo or…
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/articles/does-life-get-better-after-50
Adulthood happiness may be U-shaped, hitting a trough in late 40s before rising till 80s
When Mr Jonathan Rauch fell into the doldrums in his 40s, he had no idea why. He had a successful…
/articles/temasek-cares-project-hand-hand
Be a Volunteer and walk a child to or/and from home & his/her pre-school
Temasek Cares – Project Hand-in-Hand is a community self-help programme which aims to engage Seniors to be mentors to pre-…
/articles/causes-week-2016-helping-write-story-ages
Over this month and next, 500 elderly people in Singapore will be writing stories - without knowing how they end.
Each of them will be given a blank book and asked to fill its first five pages…
/articles/staying-upbeat-despite-his-cancer-bout-wifes-dementia
SINGAPORE - Mr Michael Wong sat on a metal bench in the garden beneath his Housing Board block in Toa Payoh North, looking tenderly at his wife.
Every now and then, the 78-year-old would reach…
/articles/family-holiday-without-whole-family
One-to-one parent-child travel is on the rise and a great opportunity to bond, say parents and kids
Photographer and film-maker Stefen Chow, 38, calls himself a "jaded traveller".
He takes…
/articles/food-5000
Willing Hearts, with volunteers' ready hands, provides meals to the needy 365 days a year
It is 4.30am. In a kitchen about the size of two badminton courts, Mr Tony Tay, 69, and three staff members…
/articles/dose-art-may-keep-dementia-bay
Two museums are trying art reminiscence therapy to engage seniors at risk in new study
Museum volunteer Tan Ai Yea is used to showing visitors works of art. The 39-year-old introduces up to…
/articles/volunteer-spotlight-growing-garden-city
Growing a Garden City The first Commissioner of Parks and Recreation Mr Wong Yew Kwan, 83, shares his experiences in helping to shape Singapore’s greening legacy.",,"
I play an advisory role on the…
/articles/facing-monster-wave
Francis Chin was inspired by Wee Tee Kiah (Befriendee) & Tan Chor Koon (Befriender) to write this fishing tale of the old man and the sea.
Wee Keong couldn’t believe what he was seeing. A…
/articles/one-100-years-old-one-just-31
These individuals fund specific causes in a targeted way, with a keen focus on results
DR OON CHIEW SENG, 100
At the grand old age of 100, Dr Oon Chiew Seng is still not done with work, and…
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