The plan for an age-friendly Singapore

Singapore is ageing, and everyone in society will have to play their part in turning it into an age-friendly nation. The Government, corporates and community partners will have to work hand in hand, while the public must take a stake in the plan for successful ageing by participating in it.

The updated action plan acknowledges that ministries require corporations and communities to all play their part. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
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SINGAPORE - Imagine you are in a forest. A two-tonne grey rhino is charging towards you. The danger is obvious. You have a choice of whether or not to do something about it. If you don’t, it will hit you like a ton of bricks and gore you.

Ageing is Singapore’s grey rhino.

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