/articles/expanded-courses-help-seniors-be-digitally-ready
Training topics range from using e-payment and chat apps to spotting fake news, scams
Mr Liu Ming Ching, 59, uses a smartphone app to pre-order food and beat the queue at Koufu foodcourt. He also…
/articles/volunteers-let-their-hair-down-patients
Hairstylists give free haircuts to elderly patients in a hospital, a band plays for residents of nursing homes, while needy seniors will get new pillows from a social service organisation.…
/articles/hipster-cafe-run-senior-citizens
They pick up new skills, build new ties at cafe that forms part of VWO's senior activity centre
In a brightly lit space right next to Khatib MRT station, baristas togged out in striped aprons…
/articles/more-support-caregivers-seniors
New initiatives offer financial, emotional help to residents in South West District
More help is on the way for residents in the South West District who are caregivers to elderly family…
/articles/senior-volunteers-set-help-elderly-patients
TTSH starts 2-year pilot to train them with paraclinical skills
Having gone through knee replacement surgery two years ago, Mr Lim Thiam Beng, 54, wants to help other elderly patients recover faster…
/articles/aunties-have-fun-learning-how-cook-storm
Dignity Kitchen conducts lessons for people to pick up skills on how to be a hawker
Do you thirst for a cup of Clementi (iced lemon tea) or ma-ha teh (pronounced Mahathir, with macadamia oil and…
/articles/joy-learning-0
Mr Goh Seok Hiong, 75, believes in a life of exploration and learning as well as giving back to society. He affirms that, to age well, it is good for one to remain contented and positive, and to have…
/articles/kampung-school-teacher-community-volunteer
While the pioneer leaders were the original architects of Singapore, everyday heroes helped build society here. This is another story about such people in the series The Lives They Live.
She was, by…
/articles/new-calling-life
NextStep speaks to a former caregiver who went back to school in her 50s to be trained as a care professional, so she could devote her life to caring for those at the end-stage of their lives.…
/articles/lives-they-live-retired-doctor-helps-others-live-well
While the pioneer leaders were the original architects of Singapore, everyday heroes helped build society here. This is another story about such people in the series The Lives They Live.
When…
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/articles/making-pawsitive-difference-lives
In fast-paced Singapore, there are those in need - and those who go out of their way to meet those needs. This is the latest in a series on noteworthy causes that The Straits Times is spotlighting.…
/articles/seniors-helping-seniors-macpherson
Now in their 60s, Madam Rosemary Lim Moh Tin and Mr Anthony Lim Thiam Poh used to live in MacPherson but have since moved to Pasir Ris.
The semi-retired couple are part of the National…
/articles/volunteers-repaint-and-tidy-homes-vulnerable-seniors
Chai Chee resident Low Chin Hwee has weathered many setbacks in life, but the 66-year-old maintains a sunny disposition.
The years have been tough on Mr Low, who was forced into early…
/articles/kopitiam-kakis-nursing-home-folk
Nearly every week, retiree Doris Han whips up a special tea-time treat for about 50 elderly nursing home residents from Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital, many of whom miss home-cooked food.
She makes…
/articles/music-mistress-discipline
THE LIFE! INTERVIEW WITH Vivien Goh
Violin mentor Vivien Goh laments that young musicians now practise so much less than before
When Vivien Goh picks up her violin, she transforms…
/articles/staying-love-empty-nest
A recent report shows more women in their 50s and 60s are getting divorced, but marriage experts say couples can keep the flame going
He was a filial son and a good father who provided for the…
/articles/recipe-family-bonding-home-cooked-food
Madam Agnes Loh (right) with her mother Choa Har Lui, 71, and 13-year-old daughter Lee Xin Lin - and the fried beehoon they dished up for yesterday's home-cooked food carnival at the Singapore Art…
/articles/life-stories
The Singapore Memory Project launches a new exhibition to honour our pioneer generation at Woodlands Regional Library
Georgina Wong is an Associate with the Exhibitions and Curation department…
/articles/wanted-seniors-heart
Every Monday morning, retiree Che Ah Chiew, 69, visits a very special friend. At 101, Madam Yoe Boh Toh is hard of hearing and sometimes forgets names and faces.
But she always recognises Mr…
/articles/afraid-growing-old-not-doctor
Tending to the elderly has also helped shape doc's understanding of 'successful ageing'
Dr Ng Wai Chong's voice softens as he talks about an old woman he used to treat in a block of rental…
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