Joyce Teo

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Joyce Teo

SINGAPORE - Plans to ensure seniors have a single point of contact for community care are in the works, as the authorities work on integrating such services for a fast-ageing population, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on May 28. Beyond expanding individual community services, integration will make it easier for families to access services and move between different ones, he said at the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) Community Care Work Plan Seminar 2025.

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Joyce Teo

SINGAPORE - After working from home as a call centre operator for four months during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, Mr Mohamed Rashath Mohamed Riyad stepped out of his family’s Housing Board flat to go to his workplace, and found himself breaking out in a cold sweat. The sweating continued as he took the lift to the void deck and walked to the nearby MRT station. It left the young man, who is now 24, slightly confused as it was not a warm day. While waiting for the train, he felt a little woozy.

2 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Joyce Teo

SINGAPORE –The Institute of Mental Health (IMH) has initiated a five-year study to look at the causes of depression among adults in Singapore, with the aim of finding ways to prevent it or halt its trajectory. The study will track around 3,200 Singapore residents, aged between 18 and 75, as they go about their lives to see how symptoms of depression and the severity evolve over time.

4 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Joyce Teo

SINGAPORE - Dr Tan Cheng Bock, the Progress Singapore Party’s (PSP) founder, said on May 10 he will not be involved in the next general election, but the party will return for the next round. He said: “Today, it’s just to come here and say thank you to those who voted for us, and also to show to those who didn’t vote for us (that) we are not running away. “We’ll be back soon. We’ll be back in maybe five years’ time.

1 month ago | straitstimes.com | Joyce Teo

Synopsis: Every first Wednesday of the month, The Straits Times helps you make sense of health matters that affect you. We all know that adulting is not easy, but why is adulting hitting the mental health of young people so much these days? ST senior health correspondent Joyce Teo explores this with two guests in this episode. They are: Ms Lee Yi Ping, the programme lead and principal Case Manager at Chat, Centre of Excellence for Youth Mental Health in Singapore.