Andy's 60s Music Checks Out Volunteer James Kwok @ SingHealth Patient Advocacy Network [SPAN]

Author James Kwok [left], with his 1962 

Physics teacher Mr. David Hwang.

While chatting with James Kwok, an old friend, I asked him why he volunteered for the SPAN GH, Eldercare Program and other activities. Thank you, James.

"While I was undergoing physiotherapy rehabilitation at St. Luke's Eldercare, I was recruited as a volunteer to chat with new patients to help integrate them into the treatment program; I have been discharged, but I am still going back as and when needed. 

The SingHealth Patient Advocacy Network [SPAN] 

where James Kwok [3rd left] helps out.

I am also active as a member of our Wesley Methodist Church senior service, chatting especially with new members as an act of welcome: last year while in this role I met up with Mr. David Hwang, who was my physics teacher when I was in Victoria School Secondary 3, 1962 [image 1].

As a volunteer in SingHealth Patient Advocacy Network (SPAN) I chat with dialect-speaking elderly male patients, to facilitate their communication with their health-care providers [image 2]; in that role, I also appear on stage as patients or as caregivers to illustrate the problems that miscommunication can create in hospital and clinic settings. 

I am also acting as patients in the training of medical officers and residents, while they are being assessed: these are video recorded for training purposes. Having fun while actively aging: all part of my dementia-delaying efforts ."

Comments are welcome. 

Do volunteer if you can. You're helping yourself too.

Author: James Kwok.

Images: Copyrighted.

These 3 images show videos recorded for the training of 

medical officers and residents where James 

and other volunteers act as patients.

Johnny Cash: Amazing Grace

YouTube: The Johnny Cash Channel.

Simon and Garfunkel: 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'

(Live at Carnegie Hall, NYC, NY - November 27, 1969 - Audio)

YouTube Video: Simon and Garfunkel.