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As reported by the
Ministry of Health,
Singapore’s population
will age more rapidly in
the next two decades. By
the year 2030, one in
five Singapore citizens
will be above the age of
65. As our
population ages, we
expect the number of
people needing care and
homecare assistance to
increase significantly.
As home nursing care
will become ever more
crucial to the overall
well-being of a typical
Singapore family, our
mission is to help
towards customising high
quality and yet cost
effective nursing care.
The ideal goal is for
every subject -- either
an elderly or a
dependent – to continue
staying with their
family in the comfort of
their home. We
hope to promote family
core values through this
initiative, relegating
institutionalisation to
a measure of last
resort.
Driven by this mission,
we founded HealthNetCafe
in 2008.
HealthNetCafe is a
social enterprise
dedicated to providing
website information
resources for family
caregivers (and any
person who needs
caregiving information).
We believe that
providing caregivers
with comprehensive and
quality information
resources will assist
them in taking better
care of their loved ones
and themselves. By
creating awareness of
the available and
emerging resources, we
want to encourage and
empower Singapore
citizens (and residents)
to take an active role
in caring for their
family members.
Through continual
collaborative efforts
with the various
voluntary welfare
organisations,
healthcare institutions
and business enterprises
across Singapore, we
have been able to create
and maintain a
meaningful resources
platform for the
community.
As a free content
website, HealthNetCafe
receives its funding
primarily from sponsor
advertisers. We
provide a unique
advertising platform for
organisations to promote
their products and
services to a large and
highly targeted group,
namely, the family
caregivers in Singapore.
Please click
here to learn more
about our sponsor
advertising programmes.
While we strive to
continually make
HealthNetCafe a one-stop
resources hub for the
Singapore family
caregiver, the continual
support from you – the
public and private service providers and
the community at large –
is indispensable to our
sustainable development.
We look forward to your
participation in our
sponsorship programmes
and resource
contributions.
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Mr. Seow Khiam Hong is the Founder & Chief
Resource Officer of HealthNetCafe –
Online Caregivers’ Resources. He
initiated the social enterprise in 2008 with
the primarily intention to classify and list
relevant services for the Singapore family
caregiver on a website (www.healthnetcafe.sg).
Today,
the website has extended its services to
supporting the work of many organisations
directly attending to the healthcare needs
of the local community. It also
supports national healthcare campaigns and
promotes healthy living, through informative
web banners and publishing healthcare
articles online.
Being
a registered nurse, Mr. Seow has
accumulated years of expertise and
experience from working as an advisor to
patients and their family caregivers.
Over the years of developing the
HealthNetCafe website, he has
been working with various healthcare
institutions and voluntary welfare
organisations
in Singapore to secure their support
and participation. His goal is to engage the
community (of service providers from the public and
private sectors, healthcare
professionals, patients and their caregivers) to
achieve greater synergy of efforts in
delivering holistic healthcare services.
While creating new information initiatives
on the HealthNetCafe
website, Mr. Seow remains focused on the needs of
family caregivers and persons needing care.
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MR. SEOW KHIAM HONG,
Founder & Chief Resource Officer
HealthNetCafe
Online Caregivers’
Resources
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Mr. Seow holds a Master’s degree with honors in
Health Science Management from the University of
Sydney, Australia. As a healthcare
professional, he has
contributed to clinical research and clinical
service quality projects. He was an adjunct
lecturer with the School of Nursing and Midwifery at
Flinders University, Australia, and had taught
courses under its Bachelor of Nursing Degree Programme in Singapore. Mr. Seow is currently
a lecturer for an ITE Skills Certificate course in
Home Care. Passionate about public health education, he has
been giving healthcare talks and caregiver trainings
for the community at large.
Committed to serving the healthcare needs of the
community, Mr. Seow is continually exploring new
opportunities to support family caregiving
programmes and provide assistance to the
disadvantaged in Singapore.
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