SINGAPORE, 17 MARCH 2020 – Homage, the on-demand caregiving services platform that combines qualified care professionals with smart technology, today announced its partnership with insurtech Gigacover to launch Gigacover Essentials – a first-of-its-kind healthcare benefits programme – for all 2,000 of Homage’s Care Professionals and their dependents.
Under the programme, Homage’s Care Professionals will be able to gain access to affordable quality healthcare across an island-wide network of over 500 clinics ranging from General Practice (GP), Dental and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM); all of which can be self-administered through Gigacover’s mobile app. The programme also comes with a complimentary annual health screening to detect early symptoms and help determine preventative treatment.
Launched in 2016, Homage helps seniors obtain more personalised and holistic care that allows them to age with grace, control and dignity. The company uses a proprietary matching engine that pairs seniors with the best caregivers for their needs and manages care via the convenience of a mobile app.
Homage’s collaboration with Gigacover signifies both organisations’ efforts to change the mindsets of workers in the flourishing gig economy towards medical protection; namely by providing them with super-flexible and affordable insurance products that can be accessed and administered via smartphones. For Homage, the launch of the Gigacover Essentials is part of the company’s objective to extend care to its caregivers, whilst they themselves are providing care to communities.
“Our Care Professionals are at the heart of what we do at Homage. The partnership with Gigacover allows us to extend quality care to them, whilst they themselves are providing care to communities,” said Gillian Tee, Co-founder and CEO of Homage.
“This is part of our longer-term objective of supporting our Care Professionals’ career opportunities, whilst also raising the attention towards quality medical provision for those working in the gig economy.”
For Gigacover, its partnership with Homage is aimed at uplifting underserved professionals in Singapore’s gig economy, who have generally found it difficult to access medical insurance coverage, especially in areas such as elderly caregiving – an area that will see more demand as Singapore’s ageing population rises.
“After serving thousands of self-employed workers, we realised that our customers are not only looking for insurance protection but also flexible and affordable healthcare benefits,” said Amerson Lin, Co-founder of Gigacover.
“This lack of protection is especially daunting for healthcare workers such as Homage’s Care Professionals. Our collaboration with Homage underlines our commitment to providing caregivers with peace of mind as they go about taking care of Singapore’s elderly and those who require long-term care at home.”
About Homage
Homage is an award-winning personal care solution that combines curated and trained care professionals with smart technology to manage and provide on-demand holistic home and community-based caregiving to seniors and adults, allowing them to age and recover with grace, control and dignity.
As a leading care services provider, Homage’s core services include Care Assessments, Activities of Daily Living (ADL) assistance, Home Nursing Procedures, Home Rehabilitation services, including Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy, as well as Home Medical services.
Operating in Singapore and Malaysia, Homage works with care recipients with a range of mobility and medical conditions, including chronic and terminal illnesses such as Dementia, Stroke, Parkinson’s and cancer, helping them be more mobile and functional as well as providing social and personal care. Homage has previously collaborated with government, health and financial organisations to distribute and deliver home- and community- caregiving services.
For more information, visit: www.homage.sg
About Gigacover
Gigacover was founded in 2017 to bring flexible benefits to the future of work in Southeast Asia. It started in Singapore and launched the region’s first income protection product to meet the needs of the gig economy. Thereafter, Gigacover continued to use its full-stack technology to co-create more insurance, healthcare and benefits products, distributing through platforms, companies and organisations. Gigacover provides distribution, administration and fraud detection services for its supply-side partners, which include Etiqa Insurance, AXA and AVIVA. Gigacover has presence in Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam.
For more information, visit: www.gigacover.com
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