5 THINGS ABOUT
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5 THINGS ABOUT:
Winnie Chan Kevin Kwang
— “I feel that every resident brought to us is brought in with a purpose. It’s up to us to find that purpose for them…to fill their unmet needs. To help them live the last stage of their lives peacefully, happily. That’s what keeps me going."
For Winnie Chan, leaving the world of banking and finance in 2012 to join the Intermediate and Long-Term Care sector wasn’t a difficult decision to make.
flier” at hospitals due to her multiple health conditions, recurrent falls, and strokes. In fact, she doesn’t recognise her daughter and has not been communicative since five years ago.
The move was, as she puts it, “a calling of duties and changes in the seasons of one's life.”
After her mother’s caregiver left last year, Winnie had to put her in a nursing home so that she could be cared for by nurses.
As she approached mid-life, Winnie began searching for the meaning of life and work. It was also at that point when she realised that her mother needed her the most. Her mother, she tells SOL during an interview, has been a “frequent
In 2012, Winnie took up the Masters in Gerontology course at Singapore University of Social Sciences while still juggling her corporate job and caring for her mother. She joined the Agency for Integrated Care prior to graduating the next year.
