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Prevented many gathering events or learning sessions. Restricted or minimal communication. Lack of social meetings.
The ever changing restrictions and rules.

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Challenges: Outreach to identify needy residents was affected by COVID

Opportunity: SSO, CO and SGO can work closely to complement and improve outreach and support

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Challenges and Opportunities with Seniors

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Challenges and Opportunities with Seniors

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- Isolated Seniors
- Mobility issues
- Social and engagement activities
- Befriending programme
- Not tech savvy
- Seniors doesn't want to interact
- Finding new ways/methods to engage them

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Everyone of us have the opportunities to share our loves and empathies for our residents through our engagaments and events organised by our CC

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Bringing Job Opportunities to Kaki Bukit

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Bringing Job Opportunities to Kaki Bukit

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Challenges:
- lack of possible venues (e.g. Our Tampines Hub, other CCs with available MPH, etc)
- outreach to residents to attend job fairs and learn about WSG' new useful job search guide, Career GRIT
- lack of information on resident's job search needs

Opportunities:
- WSG has a new service offering: Career GRIT (a structured and easy to use Job Search Guide that jobseekers can use to navigate their job search journey on their own)
- virtual job interviews and virtual seminars & workshops

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1) challenges- we lack of interaction,  boundaries and less activities physically. 

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1) challenges- we lack of interaction,  boundaries and less activities physically. 

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-Increase of virtual events,Off balance of physical contact which doesn't fit into the needs of elderly residents who ain't tech savy

Opportunity

They might learn new things through the virtual platform.
Increase of digital awareness through mindful physical support - providing of digital training for residents and grassroots volunteers

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Challenges: Community partners are working in silos

Opportunity: KB has started to work with the community partners to integrate support for the needy residents

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- WhatsApp group to setup residence group chat, residents can post questions / opinions/ suggestions in the chat. Post any news, any changes in. Able to answer resodent question directly.

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Adoption of digital media challenges.
Mobility issues such as wheelchair access.
Elderly living alone.
Possible solutions:
Organised joined event with children or grandchildren of elderly.
Organised more events nearer their homes like RN. Decentralised activity. Hybrid programs.
RN to engage those living alone.
Restart the Befriender program.

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- Neighbours can help to look out for on another, in difficult time, hilight to us when assitant is required

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Opportunity
- Covid will gradually be gone so life can go back to normal
- More seniors will be able to come down for events. They want more physical activities with a trainer
- seniors can come for events and bring their grandchildren and helpers for the events and interact with each other and make friends
- seniors can mentor and share ideas with younger residents in organising events, leadership

Challenges
- the younger residents want to do online so they can do multiple issues. This will have an impact on recruitment
- if we are unable to recruit, our events may be outdated and not relevant
- emerging from Covid, residents may still be hesitant to participate in physical activities

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Challenges
Further ways to engage the vulnerable groups
Further ways to look at greater digital literacy

Uncontrollable over the younger generation, most end up following actions of others through social medias and/or social life (e.g. ITE students slowly breaking character from children with good attitude to teenagers who rebel and break school rules on purpose)

Single/Divorced Parents who cannot handle their children due to dependence on other to raise and educate them.

Opportunities
How to ensure further casual employability to ensure greater activity in our older
Demographies

Giving the younger generation an opportunity to understand adulthood, work life and be more open to what they face or feel about the situation they're in.

Lending helping hands to single/divorced parents by looking after their children when parent is off to work or giving a schedule on how to balance between work and home.

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Challenges:
- Seniors do not have training for online platforms, during pedemic, difficult to reach them
- Afraid of scams
- Fear of picking up phone call during the telecommunication
- No daily pratices for technical devices

Opportunities:
-Through phone, talk to them on the changes, new initiatives

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Need to learn.  Seniors need to challenge themselves to learn. Learn in a fun way.
Forming groups. Learning with friends will be fun.