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CARA Website and App Services are Back Online
The CARA website (cara.sg) and certain features of our CARA mobile app are undergoing necessary system upgrades to serve you better.
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CARA now available in Mandarin
This option aims to offer a smoother and more user-friendly experience for members who are more comfortable communicating in Mandarin.
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More Wayfinding Initiatives on its Way!
Dementia Singapore is proud that its wayfinding initiatives continue to inspire transport operators and towns to make the environment more dementia-friendly. This time, we have SMRT Corporation Ltd (SMRT) onboard!
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Experience Dementia in Singapore
What is in a day of a person living with dementia? Step into the shoes of a person living with dementia using the Virtual Reality (VR) application, ‘Experience Dementia in Singapore’.
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Find Your Way
SBS Transit and Dementia Singapore have embarked on an initiative to make bus interchanges and MRT stations in Singapore more dementia-friendly.
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Journeying Together
As the year comes to a close, ADA’s CEO Jason Foo looks back at the past year and shares what’s next for ADA in 2021.
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Adapting Daily Activities For Loved Ones With Dementia
Enabling persons with dementia to carry out activities successfully can help bolster their confidence, and empower them to feel better able to maintain a level of independence.
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Ways To Help Persons With Dementia Use Social Media Safely
Social media is a great tool that gives us more opportunities to stay connected and keep socialising, especially with the COVID-19 situation. However, the anonymity of the other person behind the screen can present some risks and challenges.
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Supporting Loved Ones With Dementia In The General Election 2020
As the General Election 2020 approaches, persons living with dementia may find it challenging to participate in the process and vote. Here, we share some tips and guidance from the Elections Department Singapore on the legal implications as well as support provided to persons with dementia.
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COVID-19: Minimising Stress With A New Routine
COVID-19 has disrupted many of our routines, which can be especially hard on persons living with dementia. During this extraordinary period, it’s important to try to keep to a daily routine as much as possible.
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COVID-19: Five Ways To Keep the ADA Memo Safely With You
We recommend that you carry the ADA Memo around at all times, especially when you head out. Here are five ways you can consider keeping the ADA Memo safely with you.
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COVID-19: The Importance Of Hand Washing To Lower Your Risk
With Circuit Breaker measures in place, most of us will be staying at home more, leaving the house only for essential services. Even so, it pays to be cautious and observe stringent hand hygiene in order to reduce your risk of catching and transmitting COVID-19.
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COVID-19: Journey with the Arts & Dementia (JADe) goes Digital!
During this COVID-19 pandemic, are your loved ones with dementia getting restless from #StayHome exercises, word search, and sudoku puzzles at home? If you have run out of ideas, consider tapping on ADA’s Journey with the Arts & Dementia (JADe) digital resources as reminiscence activities and conversation starters.
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COVID-19: Convincing Seniors To Stay Home
With the circuit breaker in place, it can be hard to explain to your loved ones why they can’t go out when it isn’t essential, especially if the daily trips are part of their regular routine. Unfortunately, this is a challenge that has to be tackled.
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COVID-19: Keeping Your Home Safer for Persons with Dementia
Keeping your home environment clean and safe for your loved ones with dementia is important enough in normal times, but is especially essential as we fight the spread of COVID-19.
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Medication Management With Dementia
With some simple reminders and other medication management tools, people with early-stage dementia can continue to take their medication independently.
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Helpful Gifts For Those With Alzheimer’s Or Dementia
It can seem difficult to find appropriate gifts for those with Alzheimer’s or dementia. Here are some ideas to help you figure out what will gifts will be helpful and enjoyable to your loved ones.
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Ex-footballers 3.5 Times More Likely To Die From Dementia
A study has found that former professional footballers are three-and-a-half times more likely to die of dementia than the general population.
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Helping Children Understand Dementia
Dementia can be a difficult thing to explain to our kids, but it is important to help them understand the facts and cope with their emotions.
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Empowering Dementia Care Practitioners with VIPS
On 3 to 6 September 2019, ADA organised a series of lectures and workshops by Professor Dawn Brooker from the University of Worcester and Director of the Association for Dementia Studies (ADS). An inaugural visit to Singapore, she was accompanied by Ms Isabelle Latham, Senior Lecturer at ADS.
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For the Rapidly Growing Eldercare Industry (ELDEX)
Eldercare Exhibition & Conference Asia (ELDEX) is a trade and consumer exhibition that creates an effective marketplace for international silver economy suppliers to meet and engage with Asia Pacific trade visitors and end-users. It will be held in Singapore from 8 to 10 November.
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Singapore’s first dementia advocate under the Dementia Alliance International (DAI)
ADA has recently agreed to collaborate on an interesting new initiative by The GIVEN Company, a proudly Singaporean social enterprise which aims to make charity fundraising more efficient, effective and sustainable by employing alternative technology-based solutions.
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Building Dementia-Friendly Communities in Singapore
ADA's Fundraising & Community Enabling team supported East Spring Secondary School's Sports Day-cum-Charity Bazaar held at Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD) on 16 May.
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Dementia-like symptoms can be treatable in small ways
While there is currently no cure for dementia, research have shown that as many as one in five cases of dementia are triggered by treatable conditions, with symptoms that can possibly be reversed.
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Fish Consumption could help fight against the onset of dementia
New studies have shown that eating fish once or twice a day may prolong mental function and help combat Alzheimer's disease. New research points to a correlation between omega-3 fatty acids found in fatty fish and blood flow to parts of the brain responsible for learning, memory and dementia.
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Global Dementia Plan Adopted by WHO to Combat Growing Disease
A unanimous global plan on dementia was adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) at the 70th session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva. The plan is the latest response to the current efforts deemed “unsustainable” by Paola Barbarino, CEO of Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI).
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A cup of tea a day could help keep your mental health
Recent research reveal a link between drinking tea on a consistent basis and the lower the risk of cognitive impairment by 50%, while the reduction can be as much as 86% for those who are genetically predisposed to developing Alzheimer’s.
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Seniors find success in dementia prevention programme
The first community-based dementia prevention programme (DPP) in Singapore targeting at-risk elderly persons has reflected favourable results, with social connectedness and satisfaction of life the areas which has seen the most improvement.
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Greater Emphasis on Dementia in Singapore
"The Republic has to find ways for dementia patients to remain in their home environment, said Ms Indranee Rajah, Senior Minister of State for Finance and Law in an interview with The Straits Times during her visit to the Alzheimer's Disease Association (ADA). Ms Indranee commenced the visit on Wednesday, February 22, at the ADA Resource and Training Centre (ARTC), the training and consultancy arm of ADA.
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A hike down memory lane
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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