Peer Support + Caregiving

Singapore’s population is ageing rapidly, with 1 in 4 citizens expected to be aged 65 and above by 2030 (MOM, 2024). Consequently, many full-time employees will take on added caregiving responsibilities for their elderly family members, such as accompanying them to medical appointments and providing daily support.

This Peer Support + Caregiving programme aims to equip corporate employees with peer support and emotional resilience skills. Without targeted intervention, organisations will face rising presenteeism, disengagement, turnover costs and Increased healthcare utilisation. 

Industries likely to be impacted are: Administrative & Support Services, Food & Beverage Services, and Transportation & Storage (MOM, 2024).

To close these gaps, we propose a dual-track Peer-Support Training programme co-delivered by GeroPsych Consultants and MindsHeart LLP:

1.     Workplace track:

• Foundations: 90-min seminar on ageing, stigma and empathetic listening
  
  
• Facilitator Training: equip 40 older employees to lead peer-support circles
  
  
• Train-the-Trainer: develop corporate champions to onboard new peer supporters
  
  

2.     Community track:

• Peer-Mentor Certification: train and certify 20 PMHCs as mentors/befrienders

• Community Circles: deliver one-to-one and small-group support to fellow PMHCs
  

Our train-the-trainer and peer-mentor certification models transform participants from service consumers into service leaders. 

Corporate champions and PMHC mentors co-lead facilitation, curriculum adaptation and outreach, building self-efficacy and agency. 

Peer supporters master empathetic communication, early risk-spotting and self-care—skills extending beyond work. Community mentors actively recruit and guide fellow PMHCs, embedding lived-experience wisdom. 

This distributed leadership model embeds capacity within organisations and communities, ensuring sustainable delivery and scale long after seed funding ends.