Would caregivers for the elderly do a better job if they could experience the daily challenges that their patients or loved ones go through?
The Tsao Foundation of Singapore believes so. The voluntary welfare organization has been running workshops to train staff of the SingHealth group to better understand the daily challenges faced by the elderly in carrying out simple tasks. So far 400 of the 20,000 employees have attended the workshops in batches.
Given that about one in 11 Singaporeans today is aged 65 and above, and one in five by 2030, this initiative is timely.
Workshop participants don partially blurred glasses to experience what it is like to perform tasks like reading labels on medicine bottles, or buttoning up a shirt with their fingers bandaged and unable to bend.
