Nursing homes

Actress Jeanette Aw learns lion dance in 3 hours, performs for seniors at nursing home

Jeanette Aw performed at a nursing home after a three-hour crash course on lion dance.

As the nation ages, Singapore offers more ways for seniors to live gracefully in the community

On Dec 10, the Government gave the green-light to a shared stay-in model for seniors, in which several people can share a home and get support from a staff of caregivers.

Shared stay-in senior care services now a mainstream option in Singapore

Elders doing exercises at in the SLEC Residence @ Ang Mo Kio on Dec 10.

Former Japan nursing home employee, 22, arrested for murder of resident

Investigators outside the nursing home where two residents were allegedly killed, in Tsurugashima, Saitama prefecture, on Oct 15.

MOH moves to curb abuse, harassment of community care workers with new guide

Health Minister Ong Ye Kung speaking at the Community Care Workplan Seminar on May 28.

What’s a bus shelter doing in a dementia ward in Singapore?

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Mr Sulaimanjee Bin Ahmad Patail, 82, retiree, with his daughter Ms Suriahni Bte Sulaimanjee, in her early 40s, associate executive in the healthcare industry, sitting at a bus stop inside a dementia ward at Yishun Community Hospital on March 12, 2025.
How hospitals and nursing homes spruce up their environment to help patients, including those with dementia, thrive.
(ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI)

Oldest known Holocaust survivor Rose Girone dies, age 113

Ms Rose Girone died at a nursing home in Bellmore, New York.

Econ Healthcare gets privatisation offer from US private equity firm TPG in $88 million deal

Econ Healthcare operates 10 medicare centres and nursing homes in Singapore and Malaysia.

104-year-old woman in New York celebrates birthday with prison ‘stint’

When the Avon Nursing Home resident was asked what she wanted for her birthday, her answer was to see “the inside of jail”, a place she had never been to before.

Horse programme launched for 800 seniors at NTUC Health nursing homes, active ageing centres

Mdm Tan Ah Chiu, 89, from NTUC Health Active Ageing Centre (Bukit Merah) plants a kiss on American miniature horse, Milo, 13. Four such miniature horses are present at NTUC Health Active Ageing Centre (Jurong East) for the launch of the Temasek Foundation-EQUAL Haydays with Horse Programme, Singapore’s first equine-assisted programme designed to enhance the well-being of seniors in nursing homes and Active Ageing Centres.

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