Age Well Everyday (AWE) Programme
This event is for NUSS members, members' guests, NUS Alumni and NUS Students and Faculty.
Note to all participants: Please contact jocelyntan@nuss.org.sg if you do not receive the link by 12 August 2020 to log into the Zoom webinar.
About the Event
In 2011, the NUS Mind Science Centre conducted the first study in Asia on dementia prevention under the Age Well Everyday (AWE) Programme. This is preventive medicine in the community by the community for the community. The AWE programme is based on epidemiological and randomized controlled studies with basic science research.
The focus is healthy lifestyle with exercise, diet and mindfulness practice. Art, music and gardening are other activities based on “Western scientific methodology and Eastern wisdom and philosophy”(British Journal of Psychiatry 2018).
About the Speaker:
Professor Kua Ee Heok is Tan Geok Yin Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at National University of Singapore (NUS), as well as at Mind Care Clinic, Farrer Park Hospital. A member of the World Health Organisation team for the Global Study of Dementia, he was formerly Head of Psychological Medicine and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at NUS, as well as CEO and Medical Director at the Institute of Mental Health, Singapore.
Note to all participants: Please contact jocelyntan@nuss.org.sg if you do not receive the link by 12 August 2020 to log into the Zoom webinar.
About the Event
In 2011, the NUS Mind Science Centre conducted the first study in Asia on dementia prevention under the Age Well Everyday (AWE) Programme. This is preventive medicine in the community by the community for the community. The AWE programme is based on epidemiological and randomized controlled studies with basic science research.
The focus is healthy lifestyle with exercise, diet and mindfulness practice. Art, music and gardening are other activities based on “Western scientific methodology and Eastern wisdom and philosophy”(British Journal of Psychiatry 2018).
About the Speaker:
Professor Kua Ee Heok is Tan Geok Yin Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at National University of Singapore (NUS), as well as at Mind Care Clinic, Farrer Park Hospital. A member of the World Health Organisation team for the Global Study of Dementia, he was formerly Head of Psychological Medicine and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at NUS, as well as CEO and Medical Director at the Institute of Mental Health, Singapore.
