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As Asia ages, entrepreneurs rush in
Singaporean entrepreneur Serene Tan first noticed a gaping hole in Asia's senior care market when she was a college student. The developer of GlydeSafe - an intuitive walking aid for the elderly - observed that firms who provided goods and services for the elderly were lacking a personalized, customer-based approach.
"The silver market is underserved because the local landscape of health care and retail is dominated by a few large players who operate a traditional business model of importing from overseas. This inhibits creativity," Tan, director of Sorgen, which develops GlydeSafe, told CNBC. "If we want to improve the standard of living, we have to identify problems instead of using rehashed solutions."
With funding of $150,000 from private and public enterprise agencies, Tan's elderly-friendly mobility devices were launched across Singapore in 2013 after being tested out in hospitals. The business h...
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Feb 17, 2015 • By
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‘4 Key Points To Take Care Of The Elderly People Who Have A Fracture’
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Dec 16, 2014 • By
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Advertising agency TBWA\ Singapore has become a first mover in offering long-term care family benefits to all employees.
Part of the top-ten-ranked global advertising network, TBWA Worldwide, TBWA\Singapore will absorb the full cost of setting up specialised live-in caregiving services, as an integrated part of employment benefits, with the aim of easing employees’ financial burden and mental stress.
Currently a fee of $1,800 is required to engage a professional caregiver including work permit, insurance, settling in programme, medical check up and a monitoring tablet that comes loaded with a caregiving plan.
In a partnership with Active Global Specialised Caregivers, an agency providing professional in-home care services at affordable rates in Singapore, the TBWA\Singapore benefit extends to family members with long term and complex needs such as stroke, dementia, cancer and bed/wheelchair-bound patients. The caregivers are equipped with specialised skills and are carefull...
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Dec 15, 2014 • By
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More than 70 caregivers joined our year-end celebration yesterday at a restaurant in Little India !
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Dec 06, 2014 • By
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Active Global's caregiving consultant Rosnah Adam and business development manager Jith Joseph joined 93.8LIVE Radio's RJ Andre Ahchak for a talkshow on how specialised caregivers can help stroke patients.
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SINGAPORE, September 15, 2014 - More than 60 percent of respondents in a recent survey conducted by Active Global Specialised Caregivers, said that they do not know where to look for help if someone in their family or friends was diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.
It is very significant that over 70 percent of the respondents indicated that their first sources for help will be hospitals / polyclinics and specialist doctors with another 20 percent indicating that they will turn to the Internet to look for helpful resources. With the respondents focusing on diagnosis-related help, the survey highlighted that there is a general lack of awareness for care and respite options as patients and family members have to live with the symptoms of dementia and Alzheimer’s for 4 to 8 years on average.
“With a rapidly ageing society in Singapore, the number of people above the age of 65 who are diagnosed with dementia is expected to hit 53,000 by 2020 and that...
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