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Introduction
This course introduces students to a range of key policy issues that are faced by societies with ageing population. The course draws on experiences of mainly Asian countries to provide students with a grounded understanding of ageing policies in multiple areas of ageing. The focus will be on the context of the policies, their implementation, evaluation of the policies and the challenges.
The course is part of:
- Graduate Certificate in Health and Ageing
- FlexiMasters in Health and Ageing
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Course Availability
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Date(s): 03 to 17 Aug 2024
Time: 9:00AM to 5:00PM (3, 10 & 17 August 2024)
Venue: NTU Campus
Registration Closing Date: 06 Jul 2024
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Date(s): 23 Nov 2024 to 07 Dec 2024
Time: 9:00AM to 5:00PM (23, 30 November, 7 December 2024)
Venue: NTU Campus
Registration Closing Date: 26 Oct 2024
2. Distinguishing between types of policy instruments, the challenges of implementation and their impacts on the wellbeing of the elderly.
Evidence-based policy making
Evidence is information acquired through well-designed qualitative and/or quantitative research. Evidence-based policy making is about using the best available evidence to make policy decisions. By the end of the lecture, you would be able to understand what evidence-based policy making is, core principles of evidence-based policy making, the politics of evidence, and identify facilitators and barriers to the effective translation of the research evidence into viable policy options on ageing.
The Public Policy Cycle
The process of producing public policies can be broken down into five stages: agenda setting, policy formulation, adoption, implementation and evaluation. Each stage of the process is intervened by politics. By the end of the lecture, you would be able to understand what the public policy cycle is and how politics intervenes the policy making process using the long-term care insurance reform.
Policy Analyses
Policy analysis is about understanding why and how the government enact certain policies, impacts of such policies, and assessing the degree to which such policies are meeting their goals. By the end of the lecture, you would be able to understand what policy analysis is, identify three types of retrospective policy analysis, and evaluate senior employment policies in Asia.
Dementia
Dementia is a syndrome characterized by a decline in cognitive abilities such as memory and thinking skills and a person’s ability to communicate and perform everyday activities. By the end of the lecture, you would be able to understand what dementia is, identify the differences between a medical model of dementia care and a social model of dementia care, and identify facilitators and barriers to the creation of dementia-friendly communities.
Ageing in place
Ageing in place refers to one’s ability to live and age in a residence of his or her choice for as long as possible. By the end of the lecture, you would be able to understand the concept of aging in place, and identify the benefits and challenges of ageing in place in Singapore.
The rights of older persons
Many older persons face the problems of injustice, discrimination in the form of abuse and neglect, poverty and social exclusion. It is important to adopt a rights-based approach to support and care for older persons. By the end of the lecture, you would be able to understand what a human-rights based approach is and the development of the rights of older persons in International Law. You will also be able to evaluate the current human rights situation for older adults with a specific focus on elder abuse.
Policy Evaluation
Policy evaluation is the application of criteria (e.g. efficiency, effectiveness) to examine the effects produced by a policy. It can provide useful information for policy makers to ensure effective policy design and implementation in future. By the end of the lecture, you would be able to understand what policy evaluation is and standards for conducting evaluation, identify criteria useful in policy evaluation, and evaluate the impact of health financing reforms on fast-ageing countries in Asia.
• Experienced ageing care professionals such as nurses and allied health workers
• Career switchers who have a passion in ageing care
• Young graduates who are in the ageing care industry
Standard Course Fee: S$1635.00
SSG Funding Support | Course fee | Course fee payable after SSG funding, if eligible under various schemes | |
BEFORE funding & GST | AFTER funding & 9% GST | ||
Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs) (Up to 70% funding) | S$1,500.00 | S$490.50 | |
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS) | S$190.50 | ||
SCs aged ≥ 40 years old | |||
- Standard course fee is inclusive of GST.
- NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information.
Assistant Professor Sabrina Luk Ching Yuen
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences
Dr. Sabrina Ching Yuen LUK joined School of Social Sciences in July 2017. Prior to this, she was Adjunct Associate Professor at the Open University of Hong Kong (January-June 2017), Visiting Lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University SPEED (January-June 2017), and Associate Professor at Kunming University of Science and Technology, China (2013-2016). She holds both Bachelor of Social Science (First Class Honours) and M.Phil from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, the United Kingdom.
At NTU, she has designed and taught the following courses: HA2009 The Making of E-govenrment, HA3026 Crisis Ledership and Management, HA4026 Selected Topics in Health Care and Ageing, and HA4040 Health, Disease Outbreaks and Politics. She also teaches for the Master of Science in Applied Gerontology programme.
Dr. Luk was a recipient of the 2012 Michael O'Rourke PhD Publication Award at the University of Birmingham for her research contributions and publication record. She was also the Highly Commended Award Winner of the 2013 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards in the Healthcare Management Category.
She was the leading contributor to the UNESCAP report on Evolution of Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development: The Experiences of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Singapore. The report was officially launched on March 18, 2019. In March 2019, Dr. Luk presented her knowledge and expertise on STI policies for frontier technologies in the Training Workshop on Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which was jointly organized by UNESCAP and the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI) of the Republic of Korea, in collaboration with the Asia Research and Training Network on Science Technology and Innovation Policy (ARTNET on STI).
On 5 October 2023, Dr. Luk was invited by Asian Productivity Organization (APO) to be a Resource Person to an Online Workshop on Digital Government on Inclusive Public Service Delivery (4–6 October 2023). She gave a session on Transforming Public Service Delivery through Digital Innovation: The OneService mobile application in Singapore. Participants included government officials and scholars from APO member countries.
Dr. Luk featured in the Women in GovTech Special Report 2019:
https://govinsider.asia/data/sabrina-luk-ching-yuen-assistant-professor-public-policy-and-global-affairs-nanyang-technological-university-singapore-women-in-govtech-special-report-2019/
Recently, Dr Luk's work on ageing and long-term care in Asia has attracted media attention. She has been interviewed by journalists to explain ageing population in China. Her interviews appeared in The New York Times, Insider and Deutsche Welle, which is Germany's international broadcaster:
[i] January 20 2023: China's going to have to figure out how to care for 400 million elderly people by 2040 — more people than the entire population of the US (Journalist: Matthew Loh)
https://www.insider.com/china-aging-population-how-to-care-400-million-elderly-2023-1
[ii] February 20 2023: China has to figure out how to care for 400 million people over the age of 60 by 2040 — and it's off to a rocky start (Journalist: Matthew Loh)
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-aging-superaged-society-demographic-crisis-catch-up-2023-2
[iii] March 13 2023: East Asia grapples with an aging society. Deutsche Welle (DW) (Journalist: Emmy Sasipornkarn)
https://www.dw.com/en/east-asia-grapples-with-an-aging-society/a-64967479
[iv] May 8 2023: Deaths of Seniors in Hospital Fire Point to China’s Elder Care Shortfall. The New York Times (Journalists: Vivian Wang and Joy Dong)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/world/asia/china-hospital-fire-elderly.html
Dr. Luk was interviewed by Channel 8 on May 1 2023 to talk about the "super-ageing" challenges. 狮城有约 | 十分访谈：超老龄社会的挑战
Her research interest is in Healthy aging, Health financing reforms, E-government and smart cities.
| COURSE TITLE | ACADEMIC UNIT |
| CET125 Perspectives on Ageing | 1.5 |
| CET127 Aging and the End of Life | 1.5 |
| CET128 Mental Health and Ageing | 1.5 |
| CET129 Counselling Older Persons | 1.5 |
| CET130 Traditional Chinese Medicine for Older Adults | 1.5 |
| CET131 Research Methods for Ageing | 1.5 |
| CET133 Work, Stress, and Health | 1 |
| CET134 Religion and Public Health | 1 |
| CET135 Communicating Complexity Part 1: Tackling communication barriers | 1 |
| CET136 Communicating Complexity Part 2: Data Visualization | 1 |
| CET137 Communicating Complexity Part 3: Communicating for different audiences | 1 |
| CET138 Big Data and Computational Social Science | 1 |
| CET139 Qualitative interviewing | 1 |
| CET140 Applied Research Methods in Social Sciences | 1 |
Listed courses are:
- Credit-bearing and stackable to Graduate Certificate in Health and Ageing (total 9AUs) and FlexiMasters in Health and Ageing (total 15AUs)
- SSG funded and SkillsFuture Credit approved
