Living alone, on my own : where’s the familial in their graying world? A study of seniors living alone in Singapore

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Neo, Serene Wen Ying
• مؤلفون آخرون: Xiao Hong
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2012
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48235
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

This paper criticizes the Singapore state’s approach of invoking familial support as the first line of care in answering the challenges of an ageing population while the state comes in only to provide a framework to enable the family and community to play their part. Where then, in the larger schema...