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Ageing with Dignity
A 10-year Study on Positive Ageing and Dementia Prevention in Singapore.
Ageing with Dignity captures key findings and insights from a 10-year study on positive ageing and dementia prevention in Singapore. It aims to fill the lacunae of knowledge on ageing in Singapore, from which, enables both young and elderly people to have a better and positive perspective of ageing. Some of the most pressing issues covered are mindfulness, diet, smell and loss impairment, oral health, language and memory.It can be a road map for future research enterprise with translational relevance. Published in collaboration with Mind Science Centre, NUHS & NUS. Read more
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Counselling Older Adults
Counselling Older Adults, now in its second edition (2020), seeks to engender in healthcare and social service professionals and caregivers a deeper understanding of older persons, so as to counsel them more effectively. In addition, this easy-to-read book provides managers and supervisors of older workers with numerous useful tips for daily applications. Finally, it will inspire older adults to age with grace and dignity.
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Gerontological Counselling
This handbook is a trainer’s guide to counselling elders and their family members from Asian backgrounds. It places emphasis on ageing processes and issues, counselling older persons and their families, and culture-specific factors which affect the experiences of older persons.
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Essentials of Counselling Competencies
A counsellor’s self-awareness and understanding of what counselling is (and what it is not) are foundational for a beginning counsellor’s learning journey. In this practical guide, four authors have assiduously tapped on their considerable expertise and experience to bring readers some of the most critical competencies any counsellor should aspire to acquire. These include: Knowing Yourself • The Six Cs of Counselling • Capitalising on the First Interview • Microskills in Counselling • Ethics in Counselling • Therapeutic Boundaries • Recognising Mental Disorders for Counsellors
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Money Wisdom
In Money Wisdom, author and veteran financial adviser Christoper Tan distils his over 20 years of broad and penetrating insights—penned painstakingly in a series of articles and commentaries—to equip ordinary, working individuals and families with financial truths and tools. These include risk mitigation, insurance planning, retirement planning and personal finance, all of which are aimed at guiding readers to make purposeful life and financial decisions. Genuine, personal and comprehensive, Money Wisdom serves as a roadmap to inspire readers and even sophisticated investors to build meaningful and enduring financial wellness.
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How Much Money Is Enough?
A school dropout at 13 years, veteran financial adviser and author Benny Ong entered the insurance industry in 1967 and after 23 years, set up his own company and pioneered a fee-based advisory for personal and business financial planning in Singapore. In retrospect, after 50 years of dealing with and observing how people relate to money, Benny feels compelled to share his insights on the provocative question: “How much money is enough?” In his inimitable style, Benny uses his own life stories, anecdotes and real-life events to articulate his thoughts on the seven rules in achieving financial freedom.
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Stop. Buying Financial Policies
Cultivating Financial Clarity with Money Mindfulness
Finally, a book that adeptly underlines the essence of financial clarity and the power of money mindfulness is here. Dubbed a “game-changer”, “masterful work” and “breath of fresh air”, this book offers unconventional yet sound, practical and calibrated financial counsel to free readers from mindlessly buying policies that they don’t really need.
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Take Heart
Take Heart offers a raw, poignant personal account of how a young person came through the big, black dog of depression, and brought out the good that lay in the messy, uncomfortable emotions. Dubbed “a call to action”, the book invites a call to listen to the whispers of our hearts and to pursue the life that is truly calling us. Our emotions are an experience. Ultimately, it is how we relate to these emotions that determines if we’ll simply go through these emotions, or we’ll grow through them.
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A Legacy to My Sons
Jimmy Teo, a father, a grandfather, and a businessman, shares his reflections on his life experiences and life itself in a simple, readable and captivating English. First written for his sons, this sublime nectar of lucid life observations and wisdom is gleaned from his decades of living through good and bad times. Readers young and old, especially fathers and sons, can now relish and share it. The latest edition of the Legacy book series, this book is the distillation of Jimmy’s best writings, past and new. He aspires the book to be a salient catalyst to instill right values, brave aspirations and contentment with the gifts of life.
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The Chronicler
In this collective journal, author Koh Chye Hock opens the window of his mind as he distills for readers what he believes constitutes a purposeful, meaningful life, based on his 35 years of observing his own life, and others’. Succinct, perspicuous and provocative, the rich array of 225 aphorisms – on life valleys, plains and highlands – will set you thinking, contemplating and envisioning about your own life, and what it could potentially be.
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ViVa! Life Illuminated
ViVa! spotlights 50 of Singaporean visual artist and author Adeline’s Yeo’s most exciting art pieces, embracing the trinity of life – love, joy and faith – and accompanied by captivating poems and writings that express her inner thoughts and life perspectives.
This stunning, hard-cover coðee-table book is set to enthral readers with its eclectic, adventurous collection of contemporary works, fused with earnest literary works, and subtly encapsulated in each of the 100 pages.
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Eat. Muse. Love! 吃吃想想⼆部曲
Catch the duet – an ‘actively ageing’ mother and her daughter – in this unique
collection of 50 musings on foodie haunts that comes with a twist. Featuring 100
Chinese idioms and 50 eating places, veteran broadcaster Madam Chua Foo Yong
and Toh Mu Qin capture what famous food blogger Miss Tiamchiak praises: “The ultimate foodies’ guide on Singapore local fare.” This book is written in English and Chinese.
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