/inspiration/making-difference-peoples-lives
"As I live my life actively with a whole new mindset, it has made me more resilient. I also feel happier and more fulfilled now,"
/articles/wild-wild-western-australia-family
KALBARRI AND SHARK BAY, AUSTRALIA - Peering over the precipice, I tune my ear to the sound of birdsong as the jade snake of the Murchison River winds its way through the gorge 100m below.
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/inspiration/making-silver-years-meaningful
I’ve always wanted to bring joy to the elderly with my talent. So, as long as they are happy, I feel very fulfilled and satisfied.
/inspiration/vibrant-ageing-purpose
The desire to develop friendships will naturally come when you do things right.
/inspiration/helping-seniors-gain-newfound-confidence-happiness
I’ve made a lot of new friends and expanded my social circle. [In addition to providing makeup services,] we would rehearse and sing and dance together, and present entertainment programmes in…
/inspiration/learning-and-volunteering-through-photography-helped-enrich-his-life-after-retirement
It didn't take long before I started to feel that I should devote my time to contribute back to the community instead of spending 24 hours on myself. That would make my life more meaningful.
/articles/helpline-offer-listening-ear-seniors
Trained senior volunteers will provide real-time assistance five days a week
To help seniors in need, a new national helpline that provides real-time assistance five days a week was launched…
/articles/more-seniors-tapped-helplines-last-year-over-issues-pandemic-fatigue-uncertainty
SINGAPORE - More seniors sought assistance through helplines operated by social service agencies in the second year of the pandemic compared with the first.
The agencies told The Straits Times…
/articles/more-seniors-benefiting-dementia-prevention-programme-mooted-sm-teos-late-wife
SINGAPORE - A dementia prevention programme mooted by Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean's late wife has now grown into a nationwide programme that combines health education, art, music, horticultural…
/articles/its-time-seniors-get-out-cage-syndrome-senior-wants-encourage-others-travel
SINGAPORE - Mr Victor Seow, 64, is a retired general manager of a co-operative. He is chairman of Silver Horizon Travel Co-operative, a volunteer-run social enterprise for and by seniors to encourage…
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/articles/senior-record-holder-took-sport-avert-dementia
Madam Phua Peck Ling first spotted a brochure for a cup stacking interest group at the void deck of her Housing Board block about four years ago.
What caught her eye was the claim that cup…
/articles/being-practical-delivers-goods
Volunteers from Keeping Hope Alive focus on meeting actual needs of those they help
From a painting firm boss who uses his supplies to spruce up formerly bedbug-infested flats to a manicurist…
/articles/custodians-opera
They put in many hours, on top of their day jobs, to learn all aspects of the art
In a teahouse in Smith Street, Madam See Too Hoi Siang is telling some primary school children: "Every sound…
/articles/neighbourly-care-vulnerable-residents
Trained volunteers check that they take medication and go for medical appointments
Ms Nekmah Mahadi works at a primary school canteen stall from mornings to afternoons.
The 52-year-old…
/articles/neighbours-step-out-fight-dengue
Mum-and-daughter pair among 6,000 volunteers who are spreading the word on prevention in a friendly way
Dressed in yellow vests and bright red shirts, Madam Liew Yin Wan and her daughter, Ms…
/articles/volunteer-run-library-celebrates-3rd-year
library@chinatown is first and only one here staffed this way
Decked with festive lanterns, a 1960s-style photo booth and a live band, library@chinatown bustled with activity yesterday.…
/articles/single-mum-has-big-heart-marsiling-neighbours
67-year-old who survives on govt aid stations herself at void deck to provide help to others
At the age of 67, single mother Jainah Awang still has to take care of her grown-up son, who is…
/articles/doing-charity-work-out-rental-flat
Ex-businessman, wife have been providing free meals to needy Chai Chee residents for 5 years
Step out of the lift on the ninth floor of Block 23, Chai Chee Road at lunchtime and you will notice the…
/articles/40-years-between-photos-couple
Home nursing service project takes portraits of patients with loved ones
Until recently, the only formal photograph that Madam Qui Jok Poh had with her husband, Mr Khoo Piak Choon, was taken…
/articles/growing-older-mandatory-growing-optional
Mrs Eileen Koh-Ling speaks fluent English and Chinese. “In my 20s, I started to work and was learning English at the same time. All these 40 plus years, I have been working non-stop and it seems to…
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