Challenge X 2025: The Patient-Led National Design Challenge Team 10
Care Continuum
Care Process & Redesign
CHI INNOVATE
National Healthcare Group
4 December 2025
Musical Gift is a simple but heartfelt befriending service that restores voice, community, and comfort through music. Existing solutions for people living with life-limiting illnesses are largely based on conversational befriending, which we recognize.
Year Submitted: 2025
Published Date: 04 December 2025
Tags: Care Continuum, Population Health, Physical Health, Mental Health, Preventive Care, Social Care, Intermediate and Long Term Care ＆ Community Care, Care Process ＆ Redesign, Quality Improvement, Design Thinking
About this Content
Aims
Musical Gift is a simple but heartfelt befriending service that restores voice, community, and comfort through music. Through music befriending we hope to forge organic connections between volunteers and patients with life-limiting illnesses, via the common language of music.
Lessons Learnt
Existing solutions for people living with life-limiting illnesses are largely based on conversational befriending, which we recognize is not for everybody, while music-based solutions tend to be one-off events and lack personalization or person-to-person connection.
By combining both music and befriending, and allowing them to enable one another, we provide an unprecedented level of connection through multimodal engagement, as well as continuity through organic relationship-building.
Keywords
patient-led, design challenge
Innovators' Details
Innovators' Details
Healthcare Cluster(s) | National Healthcare Group |
Organization(s) Involved | Centre for Healthcare Innovation, NHG Health, DesignSingapore Council |
Platform(s) | CHI INNOVATE |
Healthcare Professional Group(s) | Allied Health, Ancillary Care, Healthcare Administration, Medical, Nursing, Others, Pharmacy |
Applicable Specialty or Discipline | Psychology |
Project Lead(s) | Loh Pei Yi |
Project Member(s) | Cheryl Hong |
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noor azlinah odenan - noor.ab.odenan@nhghealth.com.sg