This post was originally published on Channel News Asia on 29 September 2019.
by Shailey Hingorani, Head of Advocacy & Research
Unmarried women with no children are more likely than married women to provide care for parents ageing at home.
This was the key finding in AWARE’s l...
This post was originally published as a press release on 18 September 2019.
To ensure that the retirement readiness of family caregivers of older persons is not compromised by caregiving, gender-equality group AWARE recommends that caregivers who are still working are given six days of paid e...
We all know the woes of Singapore's ageing population, and the heavy burden of caregiving falling upon younger generations. But have you ever considered how gender factors into this?
Unequal gender norms disproportionately task women with the responsibility of caregiving for older persons in ...
We are hiring interviewers for our next qualitative research project, which explores the role of migrant domestic workers in providing eldercare in Singapore.
Interview details:
Each interview will be one hour long and conducted at a time and place of the respondent's convenience.
In...
We are interested in interviewing live-in migrant domestic workers currently employed to provide care for an older person in the household (above the age of 65), by Singaporean/PR family caregivers or the care recipients themselves. We will be conducting qualitative interviews with migrant domestic...
This post was originally published on The Straits Times on 26 July 2019.
by Corinna Lim, executive director of AWARE, and Carrie Tan, executive director of Daughters of Tomorrow.
Singapore has traditionally been heavily dependent on foreign workers in the long-term care (LTC) sector. This...
Our “Your Stories” series are submissions shared with us via email or in one-on-one interviews, for the purposes of our research and campaigns. All names have been changed (unless the use of real names was explicitly permitted by the author), and we have sought permission to publish from...
By Shailey Hingorani, Head of Advocacy & Research, AWARE
At the Exemplary Father Award ceremony on Sunday 14 July, President Halimah Yacob said that employers should do more to encourage their worker...
[caption id="attachment_41351" align="alignnone" width="551"] AWARE Past President Dana Lam at "Engaging Ageing"[/caption]
Written by Meryl Yu, AWARE intern. Photographs by Megan Tan.
Ageing. Some of us dread it, some of us make peace with it, but how do we talk about it?
On the evening of ...
