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Commentary: Age Well Neighbourhoods to plug gap in senior services, but what’s next?

Duke-NUS Medical School

Age Well Neighbourhoods – A positive move, but more can be done

While the government has rolled out initiatives like Healthier SG and Age Well SG to ensure seniors receive care through a regular primary care doctor, access social programmes in the community to prevent social isolation, and improve care integration, not every senior may benefit from Age Well Neighbourhoods immediately, as these efforts will be progressively be rolled out across the country, in areas with higher senior density. This however presents an opportunity for variations of services to be trialled in other neighbourhoods and compared for efficacy.

Dr Jeremy Lim-Soh and A/Prof Rahul Malhotra share their insights and outline four ideas for an age-friendly Singapore. 

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