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Dementia Singapore’s Second Charity Networking Dinner Raises Over $100,000

Dementia Singapore’s Second Charity Networking Dinner Raises Over $100,000

On 26 April 2023, Dementia Singapore held its second Charity Networking Dinner at Suntec City Sky Garden that brought together individuals from various backgrounds and industries in support of the dementia cause. Following last year’s successful debut run, this year’s dinner saw a great turnout of over 100 attendees, including our CEO, Jason Foo, board and committee members, donors, and partners.

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CARA: A year of empowering the dementia community

CARA: A year of empowering the dementia community

In February 2023, CARA achieved a significant milestone with a strategic partnership between Dementia Singapore and the Municipal Services Office (MSO). The collaboration of CARA and MSO’s OneService app aims to provide holistic support for the dementia community in Singapore.

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Enhancing Efforts to be a Dementia-Friendly and Inclusive Singapore

Enhancing Efforts to be a Dementia-Friendly and Inclusive Singapore

On 20 November 2022, the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) launched the national campaign, the #DementiaFriendlySG movement. The launch event received great support from individuals (including persons with dementia), corporate and community partners. To cement its commitment, a strategic partnership with Dementia Singapore was also formalised to spur collaborations and explore efforts to meet the needs of people with dementia and their families.

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Voices for Hope: Aspiring Dementia Self-Advocates

Voices for Hope: Aspiring Dementia Self-Advocates

On 15 November 2022, Dementia Singapore witnessed the 10th graduation ceremony of the Voices for Hope programme. It was a heartwarming sight to see families, friends, previous cohorts, and special guests gather to support the eight graduates from the 10th cohort of the Voices for Hope programme.

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Leading by Example

Leading by Example

Mr R.S. Chandraajothi supervises two Dementia Singapore daycare centres, and oversees 30 care staff. Not many know that he was also the main caregiver to his mother with dementia for 10 years, which has allowed him to empathise with families impacted by the condition.

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Keppel supports Dementia Singapore with $1 million donation

Keppel supports Dementia Singapore with $1 million donation

In conjunction with World Alzheimer’s Month in September 2022, Keppel Corporation has, through its philanthropic arm, Keppel Care Foundation, pledged $1 million over the next three years to support Dementia Singapore, Singapore’s leading social service agency in specialised dementia care.

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1000 Cranes for a Dream Come True

1000 Cranes for a Dream Come True

As we prepare for World Alzheimer's Month in September, we aim to bring the nation together for a conversation about dementia, inspiring solidarity with the dementia community and creating hope for the future.

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ONE with Dementia

ONE with Dementia

With both parents previously working as nurses since the 1950s-60s, and them having dealt with a myriad of conditions and patients in the past, never once did Brinda Naidu imagine taking on the role of a caregiver herself. But today, more empowered than ever, watch as Brinda overcomes life’s struggles to be a compassionate caregiver to her father with dementia.

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CARA Christmas Challenge

CARA Christmas Challenge

CARA, Dementia Singapore’s Membership Programme has released its first campaign this festive season! It is open to anyone aged 18 and above in Singapore, and we invite you to participate by helping Santa find his way home.

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New Launch: CARA Mobile App

New Launch: CARA Mobile App

As the first-of-its-kind in the world, CARA provides a safe-return function, curated care solutions, resources and lifestyle rewards for persons with dementia and caregivers in Singapore.

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World Alzheimer’s Month 2021: New Beginnings

World Alzheimer’s Month 2021: New Beginnings

For several decades now, we have been commemorating World Alzheimer’s Month (WAM) every September. WAM this year was an especially momentous one as it marked the historic debut of Dementia Singapore’s refreshed identity.

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My Caregiving Journey

My Caregiving Journey

Jacinta, the primary caregiver to her husband Rodney, sheds light on Rodney’s dementia diagnosis, their shared challenges, and the steps they take together to overcome them. Theirs is a story of love, courage, and perseverance.

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Dementia Singapore Ambassadors

Dementia Singapore Ambassadors

Dementia Singapore is proud to partner with local celebrities Tay Ping Hui and Munah Bagharib to lend their influential voices to call for more support and increase public awareness efforts.

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New Course on Supporting Persons with Dementia

New Course on Supporting Persons with Dementia

Dementia Singapore (formerly known as Alzheimer’s Disease Association) has launched a new competency-based certification programme, Support Persons Living With Dementia. Consisting of three modules, the course aims to impart the knowledge and skills necessary to support people living with dementia, in a variety of settings, residential and otherwise.

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Leaving Footprints that Tell a Story

Leaving Footprints that Tell a Story

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Voices for Hope programme continues to coach persons with dementia and care partners, giving them a boost in their confidence as they actively contribute to the community through their stories and sentiments.

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Keeping the Spirit of Giving Alive

Keeping the Spirit of Giving Alive

Despite the gloom of the pandemic still shrouding the world in 2021, generous individuals and companies are doing their utmost to spread the spirit of social good and cheer to the dementia community.

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Giving a Voice to Those with Dementia

Giving a Voice to Those with Dementia

We are delighted to have Madam Rohani Bte Rahmat, care partner to her husband living with dementia, give her closing address at the #ADI2020 Global Conference. She shared her journey as a care partner who experienced initial denial and embarrassment of this condition, but subsequently grew to accept it through community support and our Voices for Hope programme.

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Why We Do What We Do

Why We Do What We Do

In October 2020, ADA welcomed a new Head of Fundraising - Sherwan Sharip. With a background in media sales and a keen passion in social work, let’s hear from Sherwan about his goals for the social service sector in a post-COVID world, as well as what drives him in his work.

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Coping With Feelings Of Loss And Grief As Dementia Progresses

Coping With Feelings Of Loss And Grief As Dementia Progresses

It’s common to have feelings of loss and grief as dementia progresses. While you might feel like these feelings are wrong, it is important to understand that you are entitled to your emotions, and that the important thing is learning to manage it so it does not become overwhelming.

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How To Respond To Common Dementia Accusations

How To Respond To Common Dementia Accusations

A person with dementia may sometimes make accusations against people around them, including their family, friends, and caregivers. This can be very challenging to deal with, and it is important to understand that the person with dementia isn’t making this accusations on purpose to hurt you.

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Up close and personal with Dr Ang Peng Chye

Up close and personal with Dr Ang Peng Chye

You may know him as the man who started ADA thirty years ago with a singular focus to champion the dementia cause. Today, Dr Ang Peng Chye shares with us about the early days that led to the establishment of Alzheimer’s Disease Association, its major milestones through the years and why he is hopeful for the dementia cause in Singapore.

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Vintage Radio For The Ageless Generation

Vintage Radio For The Ageless Generation

Music is a wonderful medium that elderly persons with dementia can reminisce with and react positively to. Embracing this is VintageRadio.SG, a streamed radio station that plays vintage songs and oldies from the 50’s to 70’s exclusively.

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ADA celebrates a fully virtual World Alzheimer’s Month 2020!

ADA celebrates a fully virtual World Alzheimer’s Month 2020!

This year, ADA celebrates WAM once again—bigger and better than before! Bearing the overarching theme of ‘Empowerment’, WAM 2020 aims to empower and enable every person in Singapore’s dementia community, be it a person living with dementia, caregiver, relative, friend or ally.

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Dental Care Tips For Dementia Caregivers

Dental Care Tips For Dementia Caregivers

Maintaining good oral health is important for your overall health and wellbeing. To help to reduce the risk of developing poor oral and dental health, it’s important to establish a dental care programme.

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Volunteering Goes Virtual!

Volunteering Goes Virtual!

Across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted communities and daily activities in unprecedented ways. Physical volunteering had to cease, leading ADA to redesign its volunteering initiatives to ensure that people who are keen to serve with a heart can continue to support the dementia community.

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COVID-19 Special: How ADA Combats The Pandemic

COVID-19 Special: How ADA Combats The Pandemic

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, ADA has faced multiple new challenges. The experience has been a huge learning curve for us. We’ve taken this opportunity to innovate and, along the way, discovered different approaches and better ways to keep reaching out to our clients.

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ADA Memo Launched To Help Persons With Dementia And Caregivers During COVID-19

ADA Memo Launched To Help Persons With Dementia And Caregivers During COVID-19

In order to help people living with dementia and their families, especially during the Circuit Breaker period, ADA collaborated with the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) and worked with enforcement authorities on how to create awareness of dementia, and how to render the appropriate assistance should someone with dementia unintentionally break the Circuit Breaker rules.

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Reminiscence Therapy For Dementia

Reminiscence Therapy For Dementia

Reminiscence therapy uses the senses to help individuals with dementia remember events, people, and places from the past, and can be useful in reducing negative emotions.

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ADA Ushers In The Year Of The Rat!

ADA Ushers In The Year Of The Rat!

As part of this year’s Lunar New Year festivities, ADA and our dedicated partners set out to bring joy, prosperity and good fortune to our clients, caregivers and longtime volunteers!

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A Family Empowered, #DespiteDementia

A Family Empowered, #DespiteDementia

Even donning the hat of full-time caregiver to her special-needs son for the past 10 years couldn’t have prepared Maggie Lee for her husband’s diagnosis of young onset dementia in January 2015.

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Four Ways To Avoid Caregiver Burnout

Four Ways To Avoid Caregiver Burnout

Caregiving is by no means an easy task, especially if you’re the primary caregiver of a loved one living with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias. As rewarding as it is being able to be there for a loved one, it is also natural to feel stressed, exhausted, frustrated, and sad at times.

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Handling Dementia Denial

Handling Dementia Denial

Receiving a dementia diagnosis can be harrowing—it’s normal for the person who has been diagnosed to feel a range of negative emotions, from sadness to frustration, or even outright denial. Understanding the reason behind the denial is important to coming up with strategies to help your loved one.

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A Day Of Fun, #DespiteDementia

A Day Of Fun, #DespiteDementia

Themed “Let’s Talk About Dementia: End The Stigma”, the WAM2019 Carnival aimed to encourage people to learn more about dementia. The free admission, full-day funfair was held at *SCAPE and featured good fun for a good cause, with a myriad of edu-tainment booths, as well as a variety of carnival snacks and activities.

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Have good fun for a good cause at WAM2019 Carnival!

Have good fun for a good cause at WAM2019 Carnival!

World Alzheimer's Month (WAM) is the international campaign by Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) held every September to raise awareness and challenge the stigma that surrounds dementia. Within World Alzheimer’s Month falls World Alzheimer’s Day, designated by the global community as the day we come together to celebrate our persons with dementia and their loving families.

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An Afternoon Full Of Love

An Afternoon Full Of Love

ADA’s Star Charity Luncheon was a success, raising more than $200,000 to fund our Memories Café programme for at least another two years. It was an afternoon of exquisite dining and exciting entertainment at ADA’s fundraising gala, the Star Charity Luncheon. The luncheon was held on 20 July 2019 at Four Seasons, with funds raised going towards ADA’s Memories Café Programme.

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Defusing a heated situation

Defusing a heated situation

Dealing with anger and aggression when caring for our loved ones can be difficult, but understanding how to react correctly can help prevent a fallout.

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Incontinence In Dementia

Incontinence In Dementia

One of the symptoms that is less commonly identified and attributed to dementia is incontinence. In the course of caregiving, how often have you realised that your ward has soiled herself, only to blame it as an inevitable by-product of old age (or even wilfulness)?

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Strategies to Help Deal with Wandering

Strategies to Help Deal with Wandering

Most of us have gone through the frustration of momentarily forgetting someone’s name, the date of an important appointment, or even where we’ve misplaced our mobile phone. But for persons living in the shadow of Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias, this sense of frustration can be a daily affair.

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Coping With Hallucinations

Coping With Hallucinations

In the process of caring for your loved one with dementia, you may have come across times when she says that she just saw her dead husband walk pass the window, or shout at non-existent bugs crawling on the floor. Whether disturbing or ridiculous to you, hallucinations are very real to persons with dementia. For caregivers and loved ones alike, seeing your ward with dementia hallucination can present both a traumatic and frustrating scenario.

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Finding Joy in Caregiving

Finding Joy in Caregiving

As a caregiver, it can be hard to find joy in what you do at times. But whether the responsibilities were thrusted upon you or not, there is definite joy to be found amidst the challenges.

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End-of-life Care For Dementia

End-of-life Care For Dementia

Watching your loved one deteriorate because of dementia is difficult. End-stage dementia can be even more traumatic to witness. Knowing the signs that a person with dementia is nearing the end of his life is essential because it can help you decide on how to give them the right care to increase the quality of the time they have left.

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Dementia, Pet Care and You

Dementia, Pet Care and You

When a loved one is diagnosed with dementia, it shouldn’t mean that they have to give up their beloved pets. There are ways to integrate them to ensure they remain lifelong well-loved members of the family.

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Reframing Blame

Reframing Blame

Caregiving is never a walk in the park, and in the process of caring for a loved one or ward with dementia, caregivers may find themselves dealing with a common, underlying theme – blame.

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Redirecting the Dementia Brain

Redirecting the Dementia Brain

Caregiving is never a walk in the park, and in the process of caring for a loved one or ward with dementia, caregivers may find themselves dealing with a common, underlying theme – blame.

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Keep Calm And Carry On … Caring

Keep Calm And Carry On … Caring

Caregiving can have its rewards, but a caregiver usually has to put the needs and well-being of the person under her care before her own. As such, taking on the honourable task of caregiving places an enormous toll on the person, and can strain even the most resilient and patient among us.

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4 Ways To Help Your Loved One With Dementia Eat More

4 Ways To Help Your Loved One With Dementia Eat More

We are aware of all the good and nutritious foods like walnuts and green leafy vegetables that persons with dementia need to keep their brain health in the best possible condition. But the problem is: what if they simply refuse to eat? For most of us “normal” people without the condition, eating and having our meals promptly is happens most naturally.

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5 New Year Resolutions For Caregivers

5 New Year Resolutions For Caregivers

Studies have shown that as many as half of people with Alzheimer’s Disease or other dementias go undiagnosed. Even though there is currently no treatment or cure that can alter the underlying cause of the condition, early detection allows for more room to seek medical advice and let caregivers make adjustments for a better quality of life before it gets to an advanced stage.

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Dealing with the 7 Deadly Emotions of Caregiving

Dealing with the 7 Deadly Emotions of Caregiving

Caregivers are the unsung heroes of the frontline of their respective medical spheres, and nobody can truly understand the challenges of caregiving more than a fellow caregiver. The truth is, we sometimes forget that they are human beings as well, prone to exhaustion, stress, and go through moments where it all becomes too overwhelming.

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Getting the Art and Science of Wellbeing and Happiness

Getting the Art and Science of Wellbeing and Happiness

How do you be more mindful at the workplace? Are there steps for caregivers to take to elevate the caregiving experience? These questions and more will be answered at this year’s edition of the Singapore Mental Health Conference (SMHC), a two-day event with the aim to foster collaborations among various sectors to build a society that is mentally healthy and resilient.

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A Bitter Pill To Swallow

A Bitter Pill To Swallow

A primary symptom of the condition is confusion and disorientation caused by a failing memory and sense of direction. This has become an increasingly worrying problem in Japan, where more and more persons with dementia are reported to be missing.

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A dementia-safe haven: ways to make your home dementia-proof

A dementia-safe haven: ways to make your home dementia-proof

Home is where the heart is, as the saying goes, and this is especially pertinent to the lives of those living with dementia. For them, each new day sees them waking to a different environment where yesterday’s reassuring familiarity is replaced with today’s uncertainty. From the utensils in the drawer to their own reflection in the mirror, their inability to recognise the setting of their own abodes makes navigation around the house a huge challenge and, in some cases, even dangerous.

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Living with dementia

Living with dementia

A 500-strong group of hikers with a heart for the elderly hit the roads for a meaningful cause.Singapore would not be what it is today if not for the contributions of our pioneers throughout the past 50 years. To honour and thank them, the 50cube Hike was organised as more than 500 people signed up to do their part and give back to the elderly.

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