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Action Plan for Successful Ageing

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We will have fewer people of working age to support our seniors

By 2030, there will be over 900,000 Singaporean seniors

1970 2015 2030

Singapore is ageing rapidly

But we are also living longer but healthier lives

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From worrying about challenges to celebrating longevity

Action Plan for Successful Ageing

S$3 billion across 70 initiatives over 12 areas

At the Individual Level:

Opportunities for All Ages

• Health and wellness • Learning opportunities • Volunteerism • Workplace longevity

At the Community Level:

Kampong for All Ages

• Social inclusion • Protection for

vulnerable elderly

At the National Level:

A City for All Ages

• Aged care services • Senior friendly

housing, transport and parks

• Research into ageing

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Opportunities for all ages

At the individual level

To create opportunities for seniors to remain physically, socially and cognitively engaged

so they may enjoy their golden years

• 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

National Seniors’ Health Programme

Physical Activity Part 2 (Mar 2017) – 7 simple exercises seniors, including those with reduced mobility, can do at home

Physical Activity (Sept 2015) – 7 simple exercises seniors can do at home

Falls Prevention (Jul 2016) –Provide 5 simple tips to reduce risk of falls.

Nutrition (May 2016) – Educate seniors on the importance of good nutrition

Stroke Awareness Campaign (Oct 2016) – Signs and symptoms of stroke

• Targeted interventions for mature workers at workplaces, to increase convenience and accessibility to preventive health services

National Seniors’ Health Programme

Impacted more than 23,000 workers in 7 sectors thus far

“Check Car, Check Body” Health screening/coaching sessions for taxi drivers when they send in their taxis for monthly servicing

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• 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 & EXAM FREE MODULES

Within a network of universities, polytechnics, ITE, non-profit community organisations

INTER-GENERATIONAL LEARNING PROGRAMME

In Schools

National Silver Academy

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• 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

CAPABILITY BUILDING For community organisations

TRAINING AND OUTREACH For senior volunteers

A National Senior Volunteerism Movement

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• 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

Employment & Workplace longevity

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At the community level

Kampong for all ages

To build a caring society with “kampong spirit” and pre-empt loneliness and

social isolation

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Dementia Friendly Communities

• Built 3 dementia-friendly communities (DFCs) where:

• 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

People in the community know about dementia and how to respond to them and support their caregivers

Environments will be safe for persons with dementia

Dementia resources are readily available in the community

Persons with dementia feel included and are well supported

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 13

Passion Silver Concession Card

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 vulnerable seniors in more than 33 constituencies.

Mdm Lee and Mr Teo, reminiscing about old photographs

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Community Befriending Programme

• 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

Inter-generational learning and facilities

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At the city level

To build a enabling city for all ages that can allow seniors to move around actively and

safely

City for all ages

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Home Care

Centre-based Care

Nursing Home Care

6,200 day places 10,000 home places 17,000 beds 6,000 places

Targeted Capacity by 2020

Palliative Home Care

4,000 day places 7,500 home places 12,800 beds 5,500 places

Capacity in 2016

2,100 day places 3,800 home places 9,400 beds 3,800 places

Capacity in 2011

Aged care capacity

Homes

Upgrade and refresh of in-home infrastructure

Towns

Improvements to town infrastructure

Parks

More senior-friendly amenities and parks

Making our homes and towns senior-friendly

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Priority queues and barrier-free access on MRT

Wheelchair-friendly buses

Safer traffic junctions; sheltered link-ways

Transport

• 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/ Robotics 19 Enabled

living

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National Innovation Challenge on Active and Confident Ageing

Action Plan for Successful Ageing

What we have achieved so far

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We seek to build communities of care throughout Singapore for successful, confident and graceful ageing in place

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