More help at hand for seniors with new tie-up

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NTUC Eldercare and Home Nursing Foundation (HNF) have inked a memorandum of understanding to refer the elderly in their charge to each other when required, for the next two years.

HNF currently reaches out to 1,800 elderly patients in their homes, while NTUC Eldercare provides home-based care to 300 elderly residents.

As part of the services offered, HNF nurses visit patients' homes to give them medical care, while NTUC Eldercare's home-based care service helps elderly residents with housekeeping, preparing meals and doing simple rehabilitation exercises.

HNF also announced that it will set up satellite centres, so that nurses will be able to serve seniors in the community more closely. HNF nurses have been stationed at two NTUC Eldercare centres - in Dakota Crescent and Redhill - in the pilot phase, which began early last month.

HNF chief executive Yim Sau Kit said that, if the pilot is successful, HNF aims to establish satellite centres at all 13 NTUC Eldercare centres islandwide.