Disabilities need not disable.The team at Friends Special works as … a team! While each health professional contributes individually to a person’s rehabilitation through the application of special knowledge and skills, the focus is on the person and the goal is to enable the individual to live as full and independent a lifestyle as possible within his home and community.
We provide comprehensive rehabilitative care for patients who are experiencing a wide range of disabilities including those brought on by a stroke, an accident, joint replacement, lower limb amputation or fractures, or simply by the process of ageing.
Visits by medical professionals to those who have chronic illnesses and who require home nursing as well as caregiver support, training services and advice on related services (such as fitting out the home suitably for those with fallrisks) will be provided under Friends Special. Help for the Senior to remain in his own home is the objective.
Monday to Thursday 8.30am – 5.30pm
Friday 9.00am – 5.30pm
Saturday 8.30am – 12.30pm
Closed on Sundays and Public Holidays
St Andrew’s Community Hospital partners with St Hilda’s Community Services Centre in this health initiative.
Rehab (Ageing-in-Place Project)The AIP Project kicked off in July 2010 with funding from Temasek Cares to operate a Rehab centre in Tanjong Rhu. This was driven by the felt needs of the community & addresses the concerns & need of a growing elderly population. Whilst the Rehab Centre and activities remain at the core of the project, it is still the objective of the centre to help with enabling the elderly to live in their own homes within the community rather than being placed into assisted living or nursing homes. The bigger plan calls for the development and the provision of a range of community support services, products and conveniences to enhance and augment cognitive and physical capabilities so that independent living may be continued.
The introduction of AIP in 2010 is in essence the re-engineering of 10 years of pioneering community work launched by St. Hilda’s; way ahead of other national initiatives. Prayerfully, AIP would be the new milestone and example for a society where the elderly would not be a burden and whose life after 65 is just the beginning of a new phase and not the end of a life time.
In order to help the residents with mobility problems, therapists may visit home-bound cases to assess their needs and recommendations on treatment/physiotherapy or occupational therapy regime. Together with the Care Team, progress was made to break resistance and apprehensions in some of the elderly residents to treatments.