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Nursing Home Sector Singapore (Issues Faced (Acute Shortage of Beds…

- - - - Evidence: VWO nursing
        homes almost fully occupied
      - Private nursing homes
        with subsidy >90% occupancy
    - - Longer Admission wait Lists
        
        depending on locations/nursing
        homes and diet
  - - - Low wages & irregular hours
        -> Difficult to attract and retain staff
        
        Cheap foreign labour from developing countries
        -> their pay includes food and lodging
        
        More work load of care workers
        ->Duties include changing diapers,
        turning patients in their beds
        and tube feeding & bathing them
        
        Overwork causes depression &
        reduced well-being of workers
  - - - Service Gap in
        holistic patient care
- - - - evidence: MOH plans to boost total nursing
        home capacity by 50 per cent to about
        13,600 over the next decade.
    - - evidence: MOH had expanded nursing
        home capacity by about 60 per cent since
        2000.
  - - - evidence: they get free food
        and accommodation.
      - evidence: Government is working to attract
        more talented locals with $1.2 million allocated
        this year to train health professionals,
        health-care staff and administrators
        in the sector.
    - - Eg. ISC skill certificate for
        home care services
        with lower bond period
    - - Passing elderly autobiographies to foreign nursing home staff
        -> Helps overcome language barriers
        ->understand more of the elderly resident lives
  - - - Change nursing homes from
        crammed institutions
        to more 'real home'
        environments for elderly
        
        Might help to reduce
        violence in nursing homes
    - - Patient's family could use the money to pay
        for a doctor’s visit, or build a ramp or
        even pay for home help services
    - - Allows elder folk to be more
        responsible over own health
        (ie elderly remaining healthy and mobile)
      - Minimise old-age problems like falls
  - - - medisave - building up on savings to pay for smaller healthcare bills
      - eldershield supplements & medishield life - risk-pooling via insurance schemes to help with large healthcare bills and disability for long tem care needs
      - medifund - safety net to provide help to needy Singaporeans
      - subsidies - keeping healthcare affordable through universal access with co-payment to promote appropiate care