Empowering ageing-in-place

• Main Authors: TIEW, Zidane, HIAH, Wei Tin, NGU, Rachel Wen Yi, LIM, Wensi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Social engagement; social networks; older adults; well-being; gender; Singapore; Asian Studies; Civic and Community Engagement
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/rosa_reports/26; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/rosa_reports/article/1025/viewcontent/Empowering_Ageing_in_place__The_Ngee_Ann_Kongsi_Annual_Report_2024_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In the past year, three governmental ministries – the Ministry of Health, Ministry of National Development, and Ministry of Transport – have jointly led Age Well SG, a national programme that seeks to support older Singaporeans in ageing well in their homes and their communities. This programme reflects the government’s priority in enabling ageing-in-place, a trend that has been increasingly welcomed by older Singaporeans. Current policies that seek to enable ageing-in-place are centred on three forms of enhancements in the environments in which older Singaporeans live, such as the implementation of Active Ageing Centres, strengthening of support for care needs, and improvements to the built environment such as the neighbourhood. Along with these policy developments, the Centre for Research on Successful Ageing (ROSA) has been building on existing research on the role of different aspects of the environments in enabling ageing-in-place, alongside the multitude of themes that are central to successful ageing. In the following sections, the report details the key developments in our research, our collaborations with industry partners, and the events that we have been a part of.