Title
Year
Author
Financing health care in old age: policy issues and implications in Singapore
Financing health care in old age: policy issues and implications in Singapore
1998
Phua, Kai Hong
Yap, Mui Teng
Collection | Ageing & The Aged |
---|---|
Author/Creator |
Phua, Kai Hong Yap, Mui Teng |
Title |
Financing health care in old age: policy issues and implications in Singapore |
Source Title | Asian Journal of Political Science |
Publication Date | 1998 |
DOI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02185379808434118 |
Call Number | JA26 APS |
Subject |
Aged -- Medical care -- Finance --Singapore Aged -- Health and hygiene -- Finance -- Singapore |
Page | 120-137 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 1 |
Foreign domestic workers and eldercare in Singapore: who hires them?
Foreign domestic workers and eldercare in Singapore: who hires them?
2019
Rozario, Philip A.
Hong, Song-Iee
Collection | Ageing & The Aged |
---|---|
Author/Creator |
Rozario, Philip A. Hong, Song-Iee |
Title |
Foreign domestic workers and eldercare in Singapore: who hires them? |
Source Title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy |
Publication Date | 2019 |
DOI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2019.1578605 |
Call Number | HV1457 JASP |
Subject |
Women household employees -- Employment -- Singapore Older people -- Care -- Singapore |
Page | 197-210 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 31 |
Issue | 3 |
Description |
In Singapore, policy makers expect families to remain actively involved in the care of their frail older relatives, as manifestly expressed in its Many Helping Hands approach to long-term care. To enable families to fulfill this expectation, the government has enacted policies that encourage the hiring of foreign domestic workers (FDWs) to complement or supplement informal caregiving efforts. |
Gerontological implications of the Singapore population
Gerontological implications of the Singapore population
Collection | Ageing & The Aged |
---|---|
Author/Creator |
Yap, Elaine May Ling |
Title |
Gerontological implications of the Singapore population |
Publication Date | 1990 |
Call Number | HD30 *1990 48 |
Subject |
Aging -- Social aspects -- Singapore Older people -- Care -- Singapore Older people -- Services for -- Singapore Older people -- Government policy -- Singapore |
Page | 74 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Dissertation/Thesis |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Description |
Academic exercise -- Dept. of Economics & Statistics, National University of Singapore |
High-frequency internet survey of a probability sample of older Singaporeans: the Singapore Life Panel®
High-frequency internet survey of a probability sample of older Singaporeans: the Singapore Life Panel®
2021
Rhema Vaithianathan
Hool, Bryce
Hurd, Michael D.
Rohwedder, Susann
Collection | Ageing & The Aged |
---|---|
Author/Creator |
Rhema Vaithianathan Hool, Bryce Hurd, Michael D. Rohwedder, Susann |
Title |
High-frequency internet survey of a probability sample of older Singaporeans: the Singapore Life Panel® |
Source Title | Singapore Economic Review |
Publication Date | 2021 |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0217590818420043 |
Subject |
Older people -- Singapore Social surveys -- Singapore -- Methodology Internet surveys -- Singapore |
Page | 1759-1778 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
restrictedAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 66 |
Issue | 6 |
Abstract |
Facing a rapidly ageing population, Singapore is presented with urgent policy challenges. Yet there is very little data on the economic, health and family circumstances of older Singaporeans. In response, the Centre for Research on the Economics of Ageing (CREA) at Singapore Management University has been collecting monthly data on a panel of Singaporeans aged between 50 and 70 years. We detail the methodology by which the Singapore Life Panel® (SLP) was constructed using a population-representative sampling frame from the Singapore Department of Statistics. Contact was made with 25,000 households through postal, phone and in-person canvassing. More than 15,200 respondents from over 11,500 households enrolled in the panel. Comparisons between SLP and official statistics show close matching on age, sex, marital status, ethnicity, education, labor force status, income and expenditure. This suggests that the panel is a representative of Singapore's elderly population. Monthly surveys continue to be administered over the internet, supplemented by phone and in-person outreach to ensure the panel remains representative and hence reliable for informing policy makers. Response rates are remarkably stable at over 8,000 per month. The SLP contains rich data on demographics, health status, socio-economic indicators, contact with government programs and subjective perceptions and is likely to be a key resource for economic research into ageing in Singapore. |
Housing equity and household consumption in retirement: evidence from the Singapore Life Panel©
Housing equity and household consumption in retirement: evidence from the Singapore Life Panel©
2021
Chen, Lipeng
Jiang, Liang
Phang, Sock-Yong
Yu, Jun
Collection | Ageing & The Aged |
---|---|
Author/Creator |
Chen, Lipeng Jiang, Liang Phang, Sock-Yong Yu, Jun |
Title |
Housing equity and household consumption in retirement: evidence from the Singapore Life Panel© |
Source Title | New Zealand Economic Papers |
Publication Date | 2021 |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00779954.2020.1842794 |
Subject |
Older people -- Housing -- Singapore Retirees -- Housing -- Singapore Consumption (Economics) -- Singapore |
Page | 124-140 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
restrictedAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 55 |
Issue | 1 |
Abstract |
Housing affordability for elderly homeowners involves an entirely different set of issues as compared to housing affordability for first-time homeowners. To afford to ‘age-in-place’ may require homeowners to access channels that enable them to withdraw their housing equity to finance consumption in retirement. We utilize data from the Singapore Life Panel© survey to empirically investigate the impact of housing equity on the consumption of elderly households. Based on panel analysis, we find housing equity value has no significant impact on non-durable consumption for elderly people. The conclusion holds for a battery of robustness checks. Moreover, heterogeneity analyses based on subsamples by the health condition, the age of household head, the house type, and the number of properties owned also show no significant impact of housing equity on consumption. Finally, we use scenario analysis to study the Lease Buyback Scheme (LBS), a novel housing equity monetization scheme that allows elderly households to unlock housing equity for retirement financing. An individual scenario analysis reveals positive but negligible effects, which may explain the low take-up rate for the LBS. |
Intersectional cohort change: disparities in mobility limitations among older Singaporeans
Intersectional cohort change: disparities in mobility limitations among older Singaporeans
2020
Ang, Shannon
Collection | Ageing & The Aged |
---|---|
Author/Creator |
Ang, Shannon |
Title |
Intersectional cohort change: disparities in mobility limitations among older Singaporeans |
Source Title | Social Science & Medicine |
Publication Date | 2020 |
DOI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.03.039 |
Call Number | RA418 SSM |
Subject |
Intersectionality (Sociology) --Singapore Older people -- Orientation and mobility -- Singapore |
Page | 223-231 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 228 |
Description |
Mobility is fundamental to independent living, but past research on physical function and mobility in older adults has not considered both intersectional social identities and cohort change in tandem. This paper utilizes data on mobility limitations from older adults in multi-ethnic Singapore to test whether cohort change varies simultaneously by gender and ethnicity. Panel data (n = 9334 person-years) collected over six years (2009–2015) were used to estimate aging vector models. |
Life annuities of compulsory savings and income adequacy of the elderly in Singapore
Life annuities of compulsory savings and income adequacy of the elderly in Singapore
2003
Chia, Ngee Choon
Tsui, Albert K. C.
Collection | Ageing & The Aged |
---|---|
Author/Creator |
Chia, Ngee Choon Tsui, Albert K. C. |
Title |
Life annuities of compulsory savings and income adequacy of the elderly in Singapore |
Source Title | Journal of Pension Economics and Finance |
Publication Date | 2003 |
DOI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1474747203001239 |
Call Number | HD7088 JPEF |
Subject |
Central Provident Fund (Singapore) Retirement income -- Government policy -- Singapore Social security -- Singapore Older people -- Singapore -- Finance, Personal Pension trusts--Singapore Medical care -- Cost of -- Singapore |
Page | 41-65 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 2 |
Issue | 1 |
Lifelong learning and productive aging among the baby-boomers in Singapore
Lifelong learning and productive aging among the baby-boomers in Singapore
2019
Thang, Leng Leng
Lim, Emily
Tan, Sophie Li-Shan
Collection | Ageing & The Aged |
---|---|
Author/Creator |
Thang, Leng Leng Lim, Emily Tan, Sophie Li-Shan |
Title |
Lifelong learning and productive aging among the baby-boomers in Singapore |
Source Title | Social Science & Medicine |
Publication Date | 2019 |
DOI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.08.021 |
Call Number | RA418 SSM |
Subject |
Life span, Productive -- Singapore Continuing education -- Singapore Older people -- Education (Continuing education) -- Singapore Baby boom generation -- Education (Continuing education) -- Singapore |
Page | 41-49 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 229 |
Description |
Coined in 1982, the term productive aging is commonly associated with active participation in work, although it has since expanded beyond employment to include other dimensions of work, such as volunteering, caregiving and other activities that "produce(s) good/service for society, whether paid or unpaid" (Caro, Bass and Chen, 1993, p. 6). In this paper focusing on examining lifelong learning as one of the other activities in what comprises productive aging, we seek to explore the connections of lifelong learning to the notions of productive aging from the perspective of baby-boomers in Singapore. |
Living arrangements of the elderly in Singapore: cultural norms in transition
Living arrangements of the elderly in Singapore: cultural norms in transition
1995
Mehta, Kalyani
Mohd. Maliki Osman
Lee, Alexander E. Y.
Collection | Ageing & The Aged |
---|---|
Author/Creator |
Mehta, Kalyani Mohd. Maliki Osman Lee, Alexander E. Y. |
Title |
Living arrangements of the elderly in Singapore: cultural norms in transition |
Source Title | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology |
Publication Date | 1995 |
DOI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00972033 |
Call Number | HQ1060 JCG |
Subject |
Older people--Care--Singapore--Cross-cultural studies Aging parents--Care--Cross-cultural studies Parent and adult child--Singapore--Cross-cultural studies Families--Singapore--Cross-cultural studies Postnuptial residence (Ethnology)--Singapore--Cross-cultural studies |
Page | 113-143 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 1-2 |
Long-term care insurance reform in Singapore
Long-term care insurance reform in Singapore
Collection | Ageing & The Aged |
---|---|
Author/Creator |
Fong, Joelle H. Borowski, Allan |
Title |
Long-term care insurance reform in Singapore |
Source Title | Journal of Aging and Social Policy |
Publication Date | 2022 |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2021.1926867 |
Subject |
Long-term care insurance -- Government policy -- Singapore Older people -- Government policy -- Singapore |
Page | 73-90 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
restrictedAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 34 |
Issue | 1 |
Abstract |
In recent years, governments in rapidly aging countries have looked toward the implementation of public insurance schemes to help cover the costs of care for their aging citizenry. This article presents a comprehensive overview of long-term care insurance policy in Singapore. We discuss the successes and challenges of nearly two decades (2002–2019) of policy experimentation with a voluntary long-term care insurance scheme, which was replaced by mandatory social insurance in the 2019 reform. Various aspects of the new scheme, including mode of financing, eligibility criteria, benefit design, and potential impacts are assessed. The article concludes that, in the inherent tension between the breadth and depth of public long-term care social insurance coverage, Singapore has opted for breadth at the expense of depth. © 2021 Taylor & Francis. |
Loading more items please wait...
All items are loaded.
Error loading more items. Please reload the page an try again.