CAI Report Questions

Here are the questions that Mr Irfan posted regarding the CAI report:

• Explain in your own words, the FOUR key recommendations of the report.

The four recommendations are: Housing, Accessibility, Caring and Opportunities for Seniors. The CAI wants Singapore to be a community that encourages and allows the elders to be part of the community. So, the elderly would be offered a wide range of houses, complemented by good support care services. Everything in Singapore should be elderly friendly, like the shopping centers, housing, etc, and that would be complemented by user-friendly transport system for them. There would also be services for people to take care and attend to them, and they would have opportunities to be involved in community groups and activities.

• State ONE way that the CAI report is recommending to make our public housing more elderly-friendly.

The house could be in a specific size to suit the elderly's needs.

• State TWO ways on how we can ensure that the quality of elderly care here in Singapore is affordable.

The government would top-up the less well of elderly's Medisave accounts, so that those elderly would not have to pay the full hefty medical bill. The government also encourages the elderly's family to have a family physician to treat and to do checkups on the elderly.

• After reading the CAI report, what do you are the THREE things that you can do, as an SST student, to help overcome these elderly challenges.

1) We could go to neighborhood community clubs to plan and organize some activities for the elderly to attend, and if there are funds needed, we could get them from either the school or the government if that is possible, or all of the students of SST could do their part by chipping in.

2) We could head down to the community centers/ elderly homes and organize talks or speeches to highlight to the elderly the importance of their health and healthcare.

3) We could spend more time with our grandparents and even our elder relatives, and we should try to talk to them as we might be able to learn lessons from them as they have more experiences than us, so we would not make some of the mistakes that they might have made in the past.