{"id":17707,"date":"2018-10-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2018\/10\/25\/making-singapore-more-senior-friendly\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T17:43:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T09:43:51","slug":"making-singapore-more-senior-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2018\/10\/25\/making-singapore-more-senior-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Singapore more senior-friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17708\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17708\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17708\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/20181009_mf_elderly_01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/20181009_mf_elderly_01.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/20181009_mf_elderly_01-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/20181009_mf_elderly_01-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from TODAY by Koh Mui Fong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How is Singapore striving towards becoming a senior-friendly city?<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor Elaine Ho (NUS Department of Geography) shares her observations of the inconveniences seniors face whilst navigating and travelling in Singapore on public transportation. Given the decrease in Chinese dialect speakers and the influx of immigrants, existing language barriers seem to create restrictions on the livelihood of seniors. This observation raises concerns about Singapore\u2019s age-frien<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">dliness.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Additionally, Singapore\u2019s urban planning increasingly revolves about the needs of the younger generations and fails to account for those of the elderly population. In order to engage, understand, and integrate the perspectives of the older generation in current and upcoming urban developments, the NUS Agency for Integrated Care has introduced the Community Network for Seniors initiative, where voluntary welfare and grassroots organizations are aligned with the government\u2019s efforts to approach and engage seniors living alone, informing them of social community activities they can partake in. This is one of the many initiatives aimed at bridging the gap between the young and old, with the vision that Singapore shifts towards a becoming a more senior-friendly city.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article, &#8216;Making Singapore more senior-friendly&#8217; in Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/commentary\/making-singapore-seniors-friendly\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is Singapore striving towards becoming a senior-friendly city? Associate Professor Elaine Ho (NUS Department of Geography) shares her observations of the inconveniences seniors face whilst navigating and travelling in Singapore on public transportation. Given the decrease in Chinese dialect speakers and the influx of immigrants, existing language barriers seem to create restrictions on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":17708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28368,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707\/revisions\/28368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}