Longevity, so hard won, is not all about cost, burden and problem. The Tsao Foundation is dedicated to transforming the experience of longevity for it to be an actualization of their full potential for growth, health and fulfillment in a society for all ages.
Established in 1993 as a non-profit family foundation, their efforts have first focused on promoting successful ageing, and active ageing as framed by the World Health Organization.
Towards that end, in the last two decades, Tsao Foundation has pioneered approaches to ageing and eldercare across a range of disciplines to empower mature adults to master their own ageing journey over their life course in terms of self-care, growth and development.
Vision
Their vision is of an inclusive society for all ages that optimizes the opportunities in longevity, and strengthens inter-generational solidarity.
Mission
To advance a positive transformation of the ageing experience, they seek mindset and systemic change by implementing innovation in community-based eldercare, training and education, policy relevant research, collaboration and advocacy.
Services & Programmes
The Hua Mei Centre for Successful Ageing (HMCSA) is a one-stop, first-stop primary healthcare provider. They deliver team-managed medical, social, and psycho-emotional care primarily to adults aged 40 years and above living in the community. They also offer support and guidance to their caregivers.
HMCSA is an integrated collective of various community aged care service models that they have pioneered since 1993.
They practice person-centred, holistic healthcare with the aim to enable individuals to optimize their health and well-being across the life course, and to age at home and in the community.
They encourage self-care and self-mastery to promote wellbeing, providing necessary information and training at the clients’ pace. Clients of HMCSA can consult at more than one clinic or programme at the same time, or transfer from one to another as their needs change over time. Over the care continuum, they engage their clients in active health promotion and preventive healthcare through to disease management and end of life care.
Training & Education
The Hua Mei Training Academy (HMTA) is a dedicated provider of training in community-based eldercare, supporting the urgent need for capacity building in that service sector. In addition to professional courses, they offer education and training to the general public to empower optimising the benefits of longevity and support ageing in place.
HMTA channels the knowledge and skills acquired by the Hua Mei Centre for Successful Ageing and the International longevity Centre – Singapore to the wider community and other eldercare professionals to impact change and engender age-friendly values and practices.
HMTA’s training portfolio includes certification programmes, workshops and talks on ageing and aged care, health promotion and management, as well as dementia care. They conduct training for the eldercare industry at entry and professional levels. They also train seniors, volunteers and family caregivers and hold talks for the general public, commercial clients and special interest groups such as pre-retirees.
Their trainers are professionally qualified and experienced health practitioners and educators. Drawing on their fieldwork, they use practical, real life scenarios and cases.