Education

About CARE
Education

CARE’s education portfolio seeks to develop the competencies of the multifaceted ageing sector stakeholders and develop collaborations to deliver outcomes which address challenges of population ageing as well as harness its potentials.

Specifically, CARE’s education seeks to:

Build competency and collaborations across ageing research, policy and practice. CARE organises multilevel initiatives to develop capability and spearhead collaborations across the ageing sector. The aim is to innovate and push further the knowledge boundaries of the sector and nurture partnerships and synergies across research, policy and practice
Build the research capability of ageing and other researchers. CARE taps on its network of competencies to mount research related training
Work with key training providers and enterprise developers to develop their competencies. CARE leverages on its specialist knowledge to work with key training providers to upscale needed training. These efforts include both curriculum development as well as evaluation for effectiveness and impact.

The multilevel platforms that CARE spearheads to drive its education mission include:

Signature Conferences
Intermediate and Advanced Methods Workshops
Expert Series
Panel Discussions
Research Publications
Research and Policy Briefs
Repository of Ageing Publications
Special Reports
Recordings of past events

OUR COLLABORATIONS

MODERN AGEING

In collaboration with ACCESS Health International and NUS Enterprise

There is a need for creative approaches to improve health and quality of life for the elderly, in both developed and developing countries. We aim to understand how the elderly today differ in lifestyle and preferences compared to previous generations and to find ways to accommodate these new needs. We first developed Modern Ageing to attract more minds and resources to the task of developing and implementing new solutions to cope with the demographic challenge.

Modern Ageing is an ACCESS Health programme that focuses on helping entrepreneurs create businesses to serve the needs of elders and their caregivers. Modern Ageing programme was conceived and first implemented in Sweden. Partnered with NUS Enterprise, Duke-NUS Centre for Ageing Research and Education, and ESSEC Business School, ACCESS Health will pilot Modern Ageing Singapore in 2015. The four-month programme features a blended curriculum that consists of online presentations, hosted on the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Learning platform, and in-person group sessions and mentoring sessions. Participants will learn about the specific challenges of ageing and how to create a business for the elder care market.

We aim to recruit twenty teams of entrepreneurs, with each team consisting of an individual or two to three people from universities, polytechnics, and regional health clusters. Each team will develop a business plan to secure funding to start their company. Teams will compete for seed funding by pitching their business plans to a panel of judges at the final event. In addition to those of the winning teams, other promising businesses may be streamed into the NUS Enterprise incubator or secure funding from investors present at the event.

A successful pilot of Modern Ageing can grow into a larger program for Singapore and potentially the region. Valuable course material will enhance future iterations of the programme and will be available on a Modern Ageing website.