Care Support

Strengthening Support for Seniors with Care Needs

Beyond supporting seniors to age actively, we also understand that there are seniors who are concerned about being adequately cared for in their homes and in their community.

To strengthen support for frailer seniors and provide greater reassurance to family members, we are developing more options for seniors to receive timely and appropriate care right where they are.

Enhanced Home Personal Care (HPC+) 

We are enhancing the home personal care services so that we can better support seniors to age-in-place in community, even as their needs increase.   

Under the HPC+ service, seniors can receive services to support their care in the community, such as assistance with showering and housekeeping.  It will also include a 24/7 technology-enabled monitoring and response element to detect falls and incidents, and provide timely support. 

MOH will progressively roll out HPC+ islandwide to better support more seniors. More information on the home personal care services can be found on the AIC website.

Stay-in Shared Caregiving Sandbox

In September 2023, MOH and the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC), with support from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), launched applications for a sandbox to explore the viability of new stay-in shared caregiving models for seniors.  

This will mitigate the impact on family caregiving that shrinking family sizes have brought about and offer more options for seniors, especially those living alone, to age in the community with care support.  

Four companies have been onboarded onto the sandbox and will be receiving foreign manpower concessions to overcome manpower challenges. More information on the sandbox can be found the AIC website. 

Seamless delivery of care

Today, seniors with multiple care needs may have to interact with multiple care providers and undergo repeated assessments from each provider. For example, they may need to interact with a day care centre, and also home care provider.

We will help seniors and their caregivers have a more seamless care journey by having a single point of contact to meet their multiple care needs from various providers. The point of contact will perform the role of a single bundled service provider, coordinating care across service providers for the seniors.

It will use a standardised care assessment tool, to plan and address the senior’s care needs. This reduces the need for multiple assessments and unnecessary referrals by different care providers.

These efforts to improve coordination in the sector will take place progressively from the second half of 2024, and in consultation with stakeholders.

Support for Caregiver Training

From 1 April 2024, caregivers can tap on up to $400 in Caregivers’ Training Grant (CTG) subsidies per year, double that of $200 today. We will also allow caregivers to tap on their SkillsFuture Credit to pay for eligible caregiver courses, to further reduce the cost of training.  

With these, we will scale up the number of subsidised training places for caregivers, to 4,400 each year across 200 courses.  

Sign up for a caregiving course via AIC’s website!