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CWA Website Editorial Page – ‘Caregiver’s Corner’

CWA formed an Editorial Sub-Committee led by Dr Daniel Tan as the ‘Editor-In-Chief’ and supported by CWA’s marketing team. The Editorial team is focused on producing interesting senior and caregiver-centric related articles to be published on CWA’s website on a monthly basis. Board members and guest writers were also invited to contribute articles.

Senior Tele-Support Care Programme

Tele-Support is a new initiative. The objective is to provide a regular follow up calls to the seniors addressing their health issues. This would be through tele-commuting conducted by CWA community nurses. The community nurses with the support of Allied team would schedule appropriate care plans and reviews for the seniors. 

Due to the pandemic, the programme will be deferred till further notice.

Community Outreach Programme

With Singapore’s ageing population, the number of seniors with support needs in the community will continue to grow. This, in turn, will lead to an increase in the number of family caregivers who need support. The question is: how can we prepare for the challenges ahead?

Helping Seniors to Remain Independent – At times, a little help for our seniors can go a long way in allowing them to remain independent in the community. It could be as simple as providing basic home care services, such as simple housekeeping, companionship and getting groceries or it could be so much more.

A new initiative by Caregiving Welfare Association (CWA), the Community Outreach

Programme will serve a two-fold purpose:

1. An environmental scan to explore the possible presence of service gaps and identify isolated / vulnerable seniors as well as caregivers who need support.
2. Home visitation to provide an effective mechanism to ensure on-going health and social support for both seniors and caregivers.

As part of the initiative, the Community Outreach Programme team will conduct home visits (door-to-door) to identify any presenting issues and difficulties faced by the seniors and the caregivers. The CWA team (Allied Health Professionals and Community Nurse) will then be activated to meet with the seniors – often with their caregivers – in their homes to identify their specific needs. The team will also connect seniors with a combination of resources provided by CWA suited to their specific needs. Support is on-going as the team will monitor and offer various resources to meet the changing needs.

Expansion of CWA

As part of our expansion plan moving into 2020, CWA is planning not only to extend our on-going programmes and services, but also introducing client-centric services to meet the social demands of a fast ageing population, and growing challenges of family caregivers.

Home Personal Care (HPC) Service Extended

To meet the demand of a fast ageing population and with an increasing need of family caregivers who needed respite care for themselves, CWA has introduced more service offerings through our current HPC service since its inception back in 2017. With HPC extended hours from 8am to 8pm, instead of 8am to 5pm, and the introduction of weekend HPC service (subject to manpower availability), we have received positive feedback from family caregivers.  

Not to mention, caregivers (foreign domestic workers) were delighted that there is an alternative stand in of caregiver service offered by CWA for those whom they care for when they take their home leaves or weekend off days.

Overall, we are glad that with the improved HPC service offerings, CWA is able to lighten the burden of family caregivers as we continue to support them as they journey on.