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Singaporeans Urged to Engage
Elderly Through Community-Based Services
By Julia Ng, Channel News
Asia
June 28, 2003
Singaporeans
must prepare themselves for the challenge of an ageing society, says
Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry, and Education, Tharman
Shanmugaratnam.
One way of doing so, he said, is by engaging the elderly through
community-based services.
Speaking at the opening of the NTUC Eldercare Centre in Taman Jurong, Mr
Tharman called for a mindset change in the way the aged are looked after.
Many Singaporeans, he said, are not used to paying for services needed by
the elderly.
Some even feel embarrassed about sending their parents to a day-care
centre.
But Mr Tharman said such centres actually do a better job than employing a
maid to look after the elderly.
That is because a day-care centre not only provides professional
care-giving, it also allows them to stay active within the community and
make friends, all of which contributes to not just their physical, but
mental and social well-being too.
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