Wai Chong Ng
NWC Longevity Practice
Wai Chong Ng
Dr Ng Wai Chong is a practising community aged-care physician and the Founder-CEO of NWC Longevity Practice, a social enterprise providing aged care consultancy, training, research, and direct clinical services. Concurrently, Dr Ng is also the Head, Clinical Development of Home Nursing Foundation. He is a member of the Review Board under the Vulnerable Adult Act since its inception, as well as the Board of Visitors under the Office of Public Guardian.
He is widely recognised as a thought-leader in healthy ageing and caregiving. He has received numerous awards and accolades including the Healthcare Humanity Award in 2016 (The Courage Fund, National Healthcare Group); Global Ageing Influencer in 2018 (Ageing Asia); Minister for Health Award in 2019 (Ministry of Health, Singapore), Agency for Integrated Care’s (AIC) Community Care Super-tasking Hero Award, 2021; the MSF Volunteer & Partner Award 2022 and more recentlythe COVID-19 Resilience Medal in 2023.
In the Asia Pacific region, Dr Ng is currently works with the Asian Development Bank in technical assistance projects that develop sustainable and inclusive long–term care and end-of-life care services. Dr Ng is InterRAIFellow for Singapore.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | China; Indonesia; Mongolia; Singapore; Vietnam; |
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| Topics | Access to care; Ageing in place; Attitudes and Expectations about Long-Term Care; Care in rural and other non-urban settings; Care integration/ coordination; Community-based LTC; Dementia care and support; End-of-life care and LTC; Ethics and care; Evaluation of LTC systems and services; Financing LTC; Healthcare access in LTC; Home/domiciliary care; Implementation; Information and data systems in LTC; Local care ecosystems; Loneliness among older people; Long term care subsidies; LTC and people with learning disabilities; LTC and people with mental health conditions; LTC insurance; LTC Policy; LTC Systems; New models of care; Outcome measurement in LTC; Person-centered care; Prevention and rehabilitation and LTC; Primary Health Care; Quality of care; Residential LTC services; Social connection; Social Innovation in LTC; Social Prescribing; Stigma and discrimination; Survey measures; Technology and LTC; Unmet needs; Unpaid / informal care; |
| Methods | Assessment tool development; Case studies; Delphi surveys; Guidelines development; Implementation science; Interviews; Mixed methods; Practice-based approaches; Qualitative studies; Theory and frameworks; Theory of Change; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Ageing and Place; Community-based approaches to dementia care; Data Science; Economics of Long-Term Care; Employment Education and Family carers; Long-Term Care Policy; Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; Strengthening Responses to Dementia; Technology and Long-Term Care; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP); Workforce Capacity and Capability; |
| Website | https://nwclongevity.com/ |