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Research Based on Age Friendly Communities in Singapore

   

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Running head: RESEARCH BASED BRIEFING PAPER RESEARCH BASED BRIEFING PAPER Name of the StudentName of the universityAuthor’s note
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1RESEARCH BASED BRIEFING PAPER Issues BriefPREPARED FOR: AGE FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES IN SINGAPOREREQUESTED BY:PREPARED BY: DATE: Issue Statement: Grant for an age friendly community, for the aging population of Singaporeinfluenced by the success of the program in Australia.Background and DiscussionAccording to WHO the population of the world is aging rapidly. As per the reportspublished by WHO, in 2006, about 500 million population of the world was older and by 2030the figure will rise up to 1 billion. And by 2050, about 2 million populations will become seniorcitizens. In the low and the middle income countries the aging population is faced with a lot ofproblems such as communicable diseases, lack of proper infrastructural facilities. There arecertain issues that cater to the ill heath of the aged population. Some of these are lack of pensionsand social protection from the families (Buffel, Phillipson & Scharf, 2012). Age discrimination,as the society might think it would be wise enough to invest time on the young population asthey are the future of the country. Another factor is the lack of consideration of the older peoplein humanitarian response during critical or emergency conditions. It should be kept in mind thatincrease in the aging population of the world has got global implications. The elder persons are
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2RESEARCH BASED BRIEFING PAPER more susceptible to the non-communicable diseases and injuries related to falls and otherterminal illness that requires proper palliative care (Willes et al., 2012). They are also vulnerableto the cognitive disorders and hence require special attention to avoid mortality and morbidity.As per the reports, the aging problem is quite critical as the average life span of people hasincreased largely which is responsible for the increase in the adult population (Fitzgerald &Caro, 2014). As far as the health care is considered, the Singapore healthcare is still not efficientenough to address all the requirements of the aged care. Setting up of any care facilities requiresa well planned financing system. The Singapore government is still trying to strive for properretirement and finance plans in order to provide securities to the aged population. FurthermoreThe Singapore government is also looking out for plans to keep the aged people in the workforceto ensure healthy and independent living for them. In order to ensure a better life for the growingaged population, provision of age friendly communities has to be granted by the government(Willes et al., 2012). Till now, Australia has made a wide spread progress in providing aged carefacilities by the provision of Age friendly communities. The department of communities of theWestern Australia supports the development of the age friendly communities. The age friendlycommunities provide spaces, planned programs and initiatives to make a community suitable forall groups of people (Kendig, Elias, Matwijiw & Anstey, 2014). In Australia, grants up to $10,000 are available to the local governments for undertakingthe planning of the aged friendly community. There are grants up to $20,000 for the localgovernment to work in collaboration with other local governments and other privateorganizations to set up a better community for the construction of the age friendly community(Kendig, Elias, Matwijiw & Anstey, 2014).
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