Understanding the 'Elderly Challenge'

1)Explain in your own words, the FOUR key recommendations of the report.
-The housing needs and functionality of it to aid elderly in their daily lifes
-The accessibility of the elderly to the environment outside their comfort zone
-To ensure health-care and elder-care services are efficient
-To let the elderly live a more healthier as well as active life, and they have goon relationships with relatives and friends around them.

2)State ONE way that the CAI report is recommending to make our public housing more elderly-friendly.
The report has shown that they have varied the length of land leases, so that shorter land leases will facilitate the development of retirement houses by the private sector

3)State TWO ways on how we can ensure that the quality of elderly care here in Singapore is affordable
-We can top-up the Medisave accounts of the people in need so this can defray health-care costs for them
-Ensure that there are a sufficient number of doctors around the proximity to the client so that their health-care needs can be holistically taken care of

4)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
-I can educate the public by making short films of taking care of the elderly
-I can become an architect to design houses that fit the needs of the elderly
-I can volunteer in community work to help the elderly in the aged home.