Our Vision
Our founder’s vision is to foster a society for all ages that supports active ageing and values the contributions of older people.
We foster this vision by advancing services, skills and knowledge of individuals and communities in eldercare; facilitating older people’s participation in society; and promoting their views for policy planning.
Our Mission
The TSAO Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older people by alleviating the hardships of ageing through its community health services; promoting successful ageing; and pioneering new approaches to ageing and eldercarethroughout Singapore and the region.
It also aims to be a catalyst for constructive change by addressing ageing and eldercare issues at policy level.
The Foundation actively pursues its mission by focusing its work on these three pillars of eldercare: Service, Education and Collaboration.
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Our Beliefs
Underlying our work is a firm belief that older people – regardless of their conditions – have a strong desire to continue living independently in their own homes and communities.
We also believe that older people can remain as vital and vibrant participants of society if they are given access to sufficient care, and opportunities to participate.
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Our core values
Innovation. Excellence. Constructive Change.
The spirit of innovation continues to motivate the Foundation and its staff to find new ways to improve the eldercare landscape and quality of life for older people in Singapore. The Guided Autobiography programme and the Age-friendly Primary Health Care clinic are two recent examples of innovative care.
In the pursuit of excellence, we set high professional standards for ourselves, and for the services we promote to the older people we serve, their caregivers and our professional colleagues.
As a catalyst for constructive change, the Foundation actively promotes scholarly research on ageing issues; invites distinguished scholars to come and share their expertise with local eldercare professionals; and supports policy planners with ground feedback and constant dialogue.
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Our Three Pillars of Successful Ageing
Service
A comprehensive and integrated network of eldercare services is essential in supporting the older persons’ desire to remain living in their own homes and communities.
Since the beginning of the Foundation, it has adopted a strategy of identifying key eldercare services that are lacking, and actively facilitating the development of new services that will meet the needs.
Over the past ten years, the TSAO Foundation has responded to gaps in eldercare services in Singapore by developing duplicable models of health services for older people. The Foundation’s Hua Mei Community Health Services give older people access to quality integrated medical and social care in their homes and communities.
By providing quality health services for the disadvantaged elderly, we alleviate some of their hardships, and improve the quality of their lives; a cause close to the heart of our Founder, Mrs Tsao Ng Yu Shun.
Our Clinics are:
• Hua Mei Mobile Clinic
• Hua Mei Seniors Clinic
• Hua Mei Acupuncture and TCM Centre
• Hua Mei Care Management Service
Education
The quality of care affects the older persons’ capacity to age independently in their own homes and communities.
To foster higher standards of eldercare in Singapore, the Foundation set up the Hua Mei Training Centre in 1995 to spearhead and conduct training programmes that would raise the overall level of geriatric care and caregiving skills for older people.
Besides raising the level of caregiving skills in the community, the training centre also aims to promote ageing in a positive light; by delivering positive messages that older people are worthy of respect, and are capable of living meaningful and independent lives, even as they need increasing levels of assisted living.
The Hua Mei Training Centre conducts training for aged care and health professionals, volunteers and family caregivers on a wide range of topics: eldercare, dementia care, health promotion and the psycho-emotional dimensions of ageing
Collaboration
Developing synergistic partnerships with local and regional aged care organizations is a strategy which the Foundation has adopted to develop a network of professional carers who are committed to promoting the cause of older people.
This is achieved through exchange of information and collaboration on projects that will address ageing issues and needs of older people. The Foundation thus formed the Division of Interagency Division in 1996 to facilitate its efforts in this area.
The division also seeks to contribute to eldercare policy planning and development by engaging policy makers in constructive dialogue; providing research information and feedback from the ground; and participating in relevant government committees.
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