Elderly Population in Singapore: Understanding Social, Physical and Financial Needs

• Main Authors: DONALDSON, John A., SMITH, Catherine J., Balakrishnan, Balambigai, KADIR, Mumtaz Md, MUDALIAR, Sanushka
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• 主題: Asian Studies; Social Policy; Social Welfare
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lien_reports/7; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lien_reports/article/1006/viewcontent/Elderly_population_in_Singapore.pdf

Who are Singapore’s low-income elderly? What makes some resilient in the face of multiple challenges? What are their social needs that might be filled by additional interventions via civil society or government programmes? These are some of the questions this publication tries to understand. It does...