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Action Plan for Successful Ageing
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Singapore is ageing rapidly
By 2030, there will be over
900,000 Singaporean seniors
We will have fewer people of
working age to support our seniors
1970 2015 2030
But we are also living longer but healthier lives
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From worrying about challenges to celebrating longevity
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Action Plan for Successful Ageing
S$3 billion across 70 initiatives over 12 areas
At the Individual Level:
At the Community Level: At the National Level:
Opportunities for All
Kampong for All Ages A City for All Ages
Ages
• Health and wellness • Social inclusion • Aged care services
• Learning opportunities • Protection for • Senior friendly
• Volunteerism vulnerable elderly housing, transport and
• Workplace longevity parks
• Research into ageing
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At the individual level 5
Opportunities for all ages
To create opportunities for seniors to remain
physically, socially and cognitively engaged
so they may enjoy their golden years
National Seniors’ Health Programme
• Healthy lifestyle campaigns and activities in the community, to promote
preventive health messages and encourage health-promoting behaviours
• Over 200,000 seniors (i.e. 1 in 2) reached
Physical Activity (Sept Nutrition (May 2016) – Educate
2015) – 7 simple exercises seniors on the importance of good
seniors can do at home nutrition
Falls Prevention (Jul 2016) Stroke Awareness Campaign
–Provide 5 simple tips to (Oct 2016) – Signs and
reduce risk of falls. symptoms of stroke
Physical Activity Part 2 (Mar 2017) – 7 simple exercises
seniors, including those with reduced mobility, can do at home
National Seniors’ Health Programme
• Targeted interventions for mature workers at workplaces, to increase
convenience and accessibility to preventive health services
“Check Car, Check Body”
Health screening/coaching sessions
Impacted more than 23,000 workers for taxi drivers when they send in
in 7 sectors thus far their taxis for monthly servicing
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National Silver Academy
• Opportunities for seniors to learn for interest and to stay active:
• Over 10,000 learning places across 500 courses in a range of
areas, including health and wellness, humanities, media and finance
• Intergenerational Learning Programme
SUBSIDISED SHORT COURSES & INTER-GENERATIONAL LEARNING
EXAM FREE MODULES PROGRAMME
Within a network of universities, polytechnics, In Schools
ITE, non-profit community organisations
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A National Senior Volunteerism Movement
• Championed by the President’s Challenge
• $40 million Silver Volunteer Fund
• Created over 6,500 volunteer opportunities in a range of areas,
including aged care, arts and horticulture
TRAINING AND OUTREACH CAPABILITY BUILDING
For senior volunteers For community organisations
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Employment & Workplace longevity
• Re-employment age raised from 65 to 67 by 2017 to enable workers to
work longer if they are willing and able to
• Help older workers seeking a career transition as well as preparing for
retirement via pilot programme by Centre for Seniors, in partnership with
unions and employers
• Promote age-friendly workplaces through Enhanced WorkPro Scheme,
which has benefitted over 60 companies and 1,000 workers
11At the community level
Kampong for all ages
To build a caring society with “kampong
spirit” and pre-empt loneliness and
social isolationDementia Friendly Communities
• Built 3 dementia-friendly communities (DFCs) where:
People in the Environments will be Dementia resources Persons with
community know safe for persons with are readily available dementia feel
about dementia and dementia in the community included and are well
how to respond to supported
them and support
their caregivers
• We have launched DFCs in Yishun, Hong Kah North and Macpherson, and started engaging
Bedok and Queenstown divisions
• Trained over 12,000 individuals from grassroots leaders, volunteers, students,
businesses, NGO, faith-based groups, government agencies
12Passion Silver Concession Card
Launched on 4 Dec 2016, the PAssion Silver Concession Card
is a 2-in-1 card that combines the PAssion Silver Card and
purple Senior Citizen Concession Card. It is issued free to
every Singaporean aged 60 and above or as they turn 60.
• Partnership with People’s Association and
Singapore Business Federation.
• More than 120 community partners,
businesses and Trade Associations and
Chambers have come on board to offer
benefits and privileges to cardholders.
• Benefits and discounts at over 1,000
participating PAssion Silver merchant
outlets
• Concessionary fares on public transport
13Community Befriending Programme
Tap on younger or active seniors to befriend vulnerable
and isolated seniors in the community
• Target group: caregivers, seniors
who live alone or with elderly
spouse
• Target to expand CBP to 50
constituencies by 2020.
• Today, we have more than 580
senior volunteers serving 350
Mdm Lee and Mr Teo, reminiscing about old
vulnerable seniors in more than photographs
33 constituencies.
14Inter-generational learning and facilities • Co-locate childcare and eldercare facilities to encourage operators to introduce programming that allow young and old to interact • 1st facility targeted to open by end 2017 at Kampung Admiralty • Engaged over 5,000 students via talks related to ageing and inter-generational programmes Kampung Admiralty Integrated Development 16
At the city level
City for all ages
To build a enabling city for all ages that can
allow seniors to move around actively and
safelyAged care capacity
Centre-based Home Nursing Palliative
Care Care Home Care Home Care
Capacity in 2011
2,100 day places 3,800 home places 9,400 beds 3,800 places
Capacity in 2016
4,000 day places 7,500 home places 12,800 beds 5,500 places
Targeted Capacity by 2020
6,200 day places 10,000 home places 17,000 beds 6,000 places
17Making our homes and towns senior-friendly
Homes Towns Parks
Upgrade and refresh of Improvements to town More senior-friendly
in-home infrastructure infrastructure amenities and parks
Transport
Safer traffic junctions; Wheelchair-friendly Priority queues and barrier-
sheltered link-ways buses free access on MRT
19National Innovation Challenge on
Active and Confident Ageing
• Up to $200 million set aside to find new ways to solve existing
challenges and transform the experience of ageing
• Launched 4 grant calls in home care innovation, cognition, ageless
workplaces and enabling solutions
Telehealth/
Enabled 19
Robotics
living
19Action Plan for Successful Ageing
What we have achieved so far
5We seek to build
communities of care
throughout Singapore for
successful, confident and
graceful ageing in place
Thank You
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