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Moana Jagasia

NWC Longevity Practice Pte Ltd

Moana Jagasia

  • Moana is a Consultant at NWC Longevity Practice with close to 10 years of professional
    and academic experience in Singapore’s government and non-profit sectors. She has
    coordinated and run initiatives in chronic disease management, preventive health and
    primary care to improve health outcomes in community-based settings in collaboration
    with academic and government agency partners.
  •  These include managing operations of a primary care clinic modelled after the Person-
    Centred Medical Home (PCMH) for frail older persons as well as reviewing service
    models in terms of scope, manpower and resourcing for community-based services for
    older persons and their caregivers at Tsao Foundation.
  • Through her work, Moana has acquired skills in programme development and research coordination at the individual as well as population health level and has extensive experience working with partners across disabilities, ageing and mental health.
  •  Moana has a Master in Public Policy degree from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public
    Policy at the National University of Singapore and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke
    University. She also has the WSQ Advance Certificate in Learning and Performance
    (ACLP) for workplace training and is certified in Implementing Interventions in Health
    and Social Care (social prescribing for Healthier SG).

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries Singapore;
Topics Ageing in place; Care Homes; Care innovations; Care integration/ coordination; Dementia care and support; End-of-life care and LTC; Governance and LTC systems organisation; Home/domiciliary care; Implementation; Local care ecosystems; LTC Policy; LTC Systems; New models of care; Person-centered care; Primary Health Care; Relationship between LTC use and hospital use; Research gaps and priorities in LTC; Residential LTC services; Social connection; Social Innovation in LTC; Unmet needs; Unpaid / informal care;
Methods Case studies; Comparative policy analysis; Expert consultations; Focus groups; Implementation science; Theory and frameworks; Theory of Change; Trials and other evaluations;
Role Policy;
Interest Groups Ageing and Place; Community-based approaches to dementia care; 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; Workforce Capacity and Capability;
Websitehttps://nwclongevity.com/
LinkedInhttps://sg.linkedin.com/company/nwc-longevity-practice-pte-ltdd?trk=public_post_feed-actor-name
Research interests
  • Caregiving
  • Social prescribing for frail and vulnerable populations
  • Mental health
  • Assessment tools
  • Integrated systems for frail populations

 
Key publications

Sim S et al, 2021 The Impact of a Patient-Centred Medical Home (PCMH) on Healthcare Utilization of Complex Needs Patients in Singapore. International Journal of Integrated Care 22(S1) A1, pp. 1-8, DOI: doi.org/10.5334/ijic.ICIC21026

Xu, S., Lou, V.W.Q., Chi, I. et al. Validating interRAI Chinese self-reported carer needs (SCaN) assessment and predicting caregiving distress among informal Chinese caregivers of older adults. BMC Geriatr 24, 409 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-024-05014-0