Design Thinking, Gerontechnology and Innovation

Course Overview

The opportunities for innovation and technologies in the Ageing Society. In this course, we will introduce the state of technologies in the care of older persons in the community. The field of technology has rapidly evolved to provide person cantered approach in improving the quality of life and independence for older persons and their family members. Using innovative thinking tools, students can be better equipped to perform their viable role in the ageing community and empowered by conducive technologies in Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT, and more new possibilities to reduce the barriers and improve acceptance to technologies. AI excels in pattern recognition and has successfully broken new grounds in health screening, diagnosis of condition and pharmaceutical support. Ageing is multi-factorial and multi-dimensional over a period of time. It can benefit from fields of informatics in home environment, integrated healthcare systems, consumer level health informatics, nutrition and medication. This course will provide an overview of the expanding field of health informatics to support interdisciplinary needs of researchers, clinicians, carers and policy makers for the ageing community.

Our trainers possess the relevant qualifications and experience to develop and deliver the training courses in their domain areas. Most of them have attained Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA) certification or is certified with WSQ Diploma in Adult and Continuing Education that qualifies them to design and develop a learner-centric and industry-specific training programme and competency-based assessment.

Mr Vincent Teng
Trainer, St Luke’s ElderCare

Vincent has more than five years of experience as Centre Manager at St Luke’s EldeCare Senior Care Centre. Currently, as the Trainer with SLEC, Vincent conducts both eldercare and caregiver training. He has completed the Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA) training in 2016.

Mr Atienza Sedfrey Del Moro (Tom)
Senior Physiotherapist and Senior Trainer, St Luke’s ElderCare

Tom Sedfrey graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy (Philippines) in 2005. He has more than 10 years of working experiences as a practicing physiotherapist in ILTC sector in Singapore. His areas of interest include neurorehabilitation (Stroke & PD) and geriatric rehabilitation.

Certification Type

• Upon successful completion of this course, you will obtain a Certificate of Achievement
• This course is stackable towards:
  
  Certificate of Accomplishment in Managing Common Rehab Conditions (Intermediate)
• Other Related Courses:
  
  Care of Older Person with Parkinson’s Disease (Basic)

  Care of Older Person with Stroke (Basic)

  Care of Older Person with Parkinson’s Disease (Intermediate)

Course Fees

The full course fee is $1,400.00 (including prevailing GST).

For learners working in eligible community care organisations (CCOs), the course fee subsidy is as follows: