Ad Maulod is a cultural anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Ageing Research and Education (CARE), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. He leads a team of qualitative researchers using culture-centred approaches to promote wellbeing and community empowerment of older persons. His research on ageing and the lived environment examines the centrality of ‘placemaking’ in the development of active ageing and community-based care models in Singapore. Through a deeper engagement in these processes, he hopes to advance the development of research, policies and care-models that enhance health equity, sense of purpose, and social inclusion of older persons in Singapore.