Archive for the 'Work Rehabilitation' Category

The 9th International Mental Health Conference

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

My FYP group has submitted an edited version of our research to The 9th International Mental Health Conference Committee. After the long wait, we finally received the good news! Our abstract has been accepted! That means we will be presenting at the conference which will be held in Gold Coast this August. Refering to the [...]

Re-employment of older workers in Singapore

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Recently, there has been many news about re-employing women and older workers. Hence, this is a good news for me as my group will be presenting a ‘proposal’ on re-hiring older workers as part of the assessment of one of the modules.
The following links are related to the online news with regards to the topic [...]

Back to Work

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

With the advent of the recent changes made to the CPF withdrawal, elderly are encouraged to work past their retirement age. Hence, one of my group presentations for this semester will be on coming up with a new programme to enhance employability of the elderly through work rehabilitation.
It seems that most elderly took on jobs such as cleaners and gardeners [...]

Excuse Me, Are You a Real Estate Agent?

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Refering to an article “Real Estate Scheme Helps Youth to Build Solid Job Foundation” in YouthInk section in The Straits Times on October 8 2007, I find that this programme called Project Youth Regeneration is a beneficial one, especially for those who are capable of performing the job requirements.
This programme trains and enables young people who are at [...]