Connecting Caregivers with Community Services: The Care Buddy Platform

Care Buddy is a mobile app designed as a one-stop platform to connect caregivers of people with dementia (PWD) to healthcare providers, community services, and peer support. It integrates information, coordination tools, and support resources to improve caregiving outcomes and ease the caregiving journey.

This is a 5-year study which aims to bring caregivers of PWD into closer partnerships with the wider ecosystem which will ultimately improve outcomes for both PWDs and their caregivers. The study spans over 5 stages:

1. Proof-of-concept stage to design and develop the Care Buddy intervention
2. Proof-of-value stage to assess the feasibility, acceptability and satisfaction with the Care Buddy intervention among informal caregivers of PWDs
3. Test-bedding stage to assess the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the Care Buddy intervention versus usual care among informal caregivers of PWDs with help of a multi-centre 2-arm RCT
4. Deployment stage to scale up the intervention at multiple centres across Singapore
5. Monitor its adoption and outcomes and assess any organisational and individual barriers to adoption

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor Chetna Malhotra

Head (Research), Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School

Study Team

• Ms. Shimoni Shah, Senior Research Associate, LCPC
• Ms. Sanam Naraindas Kaurani, Senior Research Assistant, LCPC
• Ms. Huang Xueying, Research Assistant, LCPC

Contact Person

Ms. Shimoni Shah, Senior Research Associate:

shimoni@nus.edu.sg