With the advent of rapid increase in aging population and the continual gap between extended life span and healthy life span, long-term eldercare issues have emerged as a serious challenge especially among Asian societies experiencing fast-pace socioeconomic transformation. This chapter focuses on Singapore which, similar to many Asian societies, promotes long-term eldercare practices in the home and community adopting the aging-in- place approach. Through the lens of growing care deficit in the family, the discussion begins with a contextual overview of the challenges. This is followed by discussions on the responses in policy in terms of services and financing of long-term care. In examining long-term eldercare practice, the focuses on the hiring of lived-in foreign domestic workers (FDWs) in families requiring support and the emerging adoption of technology characterize Singapore’s current and future responses to long-term eldercare issues. As a city-state thrusting into the forefront of the uncharted future of extreme demographic aging in a very short period of time, Singapore’s experience will contribute to shared insights with other Asian societies in meeting the similar challenges in the near future.

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Long-Term Eldercare Policy and Practices in Asia: The Case in Singapore

  • Leng Leng Thang,
  • Yin King Anita Ho

摘要

With the advent of rapid increase in aging population and the continual gap between extended life span and healthy life span, long-term eldercare issues have emerged as a serious challenge especially among Asian societies experiencing fast-pace socioeconomic transformation. This chapter focuses on Singapore which, similar to many Asian societies, promotes long-term eldercare practices in the home and community adopting the aging-in- place approach. Through the lens of growing care deficit in the family, the discussion begins with a contextual overview of the challenges. This is followed by discussions on the responses in policy in terms of services and financing of long-term care. In examining long-term eldercare practice, the focuses on the hiring of lived-in foreign domestic workers (FDWs) in families requiring support and the emerging adoption of technology characterize Singapore’s current and future responses to long-term eldercare issues. As a city-state thrusting into the forefront of the uncharted future of extreme demographic aging in a very short period of time, Singapore’s experience will contribute to shared insights with other Asian societies in meeting the similar challenges in the near future.