Holiday work - Part 1: Understanding the ‘The Elderly Challenge’

I am observing my grandmother who is a resident of Malaysia but is staying in Singapore.

In Singapore, she lives a very simple life. Everyday, she usually wakes up early in the morning to go to the nearby market to buy bread for my cousins to eat for breakfast as they are staying with her. At the same time, she goes to the supermarket to get groceries for the rest of the meals during the day. She will sometimes go for a walk downstairs.

When she is free and has time to spare, she will either read a chinese book, rest in her room or teach me and my cousins to play various types of games with a deck of cards. She will seldom watch television. This is because she grew up in a poor environment without many common electrical appliances such as television, computer and even fan and washing machines.

I think that she is a good role model for me because she uses her time wisely by gaining information through reading books instead of wasting time playing games on electronic devices or going friends' houses to play mahjong.

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Q1. -Provide different housing options

-Help Senior to monetise their housing assets.

-Make all HDB precincts barrier-free

-All new public buses should be elder-friendly

Q2.Work with market players to offer reverse mortgage schemes for elderly HDB flat lesses at commercial terms.

Q3.-There must be a strong network of community-based services and ensuring long-term sustainability in provision of services.

-There needs to be new forms of community healthcare and eldercare services to meet the needs of an increasing population of seniors who are largely healthy, but limited in their independence due to age-related fraility.

Q4.-I can advice other people to seize the opportunity to help the elderly un whatever way they can

-I can donate money to charity services which help the elderly.

-I can create friendly relationships with the elderly and find out their problems so that i can help them solve it.