Living alone in later life is increasingly a common style of living in Singapore. We investigated the extent of maintaining independent living in a studio apartment using a survey of older residents (n= 925), focusing on three aspects of coping strategies: self-care management, social support, ...
GJ Dobb - 《Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore》 被引量: 14发表: 1998年 Promoting healthy ageing in the Western Pacific: A mini review of good practices and policy responses The Western Pacific region has seen rapid recent economic development but variation in the provision and organisa...
SHINESeniors: Personalized services for active ageing-in-place Singapore faces a major challenge in providing care and support for senior citizens due to its rapidly ageing population and declining old-age support rati... L Bai,AI Gavino,P Lee,... - IEEE 被引量: 1发表: 2015年 The Role of...
In addition, the tightening of UK immigration policy during the past decade made long-term settlement in Britain more difficult. Consequently and ironically, the “value” of permanent British residency (possessed by the younger generation) was increased and was more likely to be viewed as a “fa...
in a tangible way'. In discussing the issues with the existing legislation, the Minister provided some insight into the overarching policy that will underpin the new Aged Care Act. It will take 'a person-centred approach, with a focus on the rights of older people who are accessing aged ...
Yet the far-reaching implications of ageing and population shrinking for sustainability have so far received limited attention in policy and practice. For example, the dimensions, dynamics and consequences of simultaneous ageing and shrinking populations are by and large overlooked in the SDG documents ...
It is not often that you see a reputable central bank revise up its inflation and growth projections and yet strengthen a dovish tilt to its policy stance. Yet that is what happened in Washington last week when the Federal Reserve raised those projections up a notch and yet delivered ...
In Singapore, the government has introduced a policy of re-employment to encourage people to work beyond the retirement age of 62 (if they are able and want to), while in New Zealand, where you can draw a pension at 65, 19.5 per cent of employees are still working in their early 70s...
[9]. The 2011 Polish Presidency of the European Union Council made the prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of asthma and allergic diseases a priority for the European Union’s public health policy in order to reduce health inequalities [7]. The early determinants of chronic respiratory ...
Blogger questions hospital’s mattress policy Account of negative experience at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital has gone viral and put the spotlight on hospital practices by Ashley Chia 04:45 AM Jan 04, 2013 SINGAPORE – Patients of Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) are advised to rent anti-bedsore mat...