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

• 主要作者: Neo, Serene Wen Ying
• 其他作者: Xiao Hong
• 格式: Final Year Project
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2012
• 主題: DRNTU::Humanities
• 在線閱讀: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48235
• 機構: 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...