{"id":90876,"date":"2026-10-07T07:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=90876"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:04:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:04:01","slug":"singapores-super-aged-society-needs-new-ways-of-funding-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=90876","title":{"rendered":"Singapore&#8217;s super-aged society needs new ways of funding healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-description\">In preventive healthcare, there is a mismatch between the funders and the beneficiaries<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-container\">\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">OCT 1 marked the United Nations\u2019 International Day of Older Persons. Its theme this year, \u201cThe Age of Longevity: Rethinking Systems for Longer Lives\u201d, poses a particularly pertinent question for Singapore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Singaporeans are living longer; the population is ageing rapidly, with the proportion of residents aged 65 and above having risen from 12.4 per cent in 2016 to 21.4 per cent today, making the country <a class=\"text-bt-blue-500 underline hover:text-bt-blue-600\" data-testid=\"article-annotation-link-component\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/opinion-features\/super-aged-singapore-society-we-must-learn-differentiate-independence-dignity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a super-aged society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Longevity across the board is a great achievement. But longevity alone is not the goal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/opinion-features\/singapores-super-aged-society-needs-new-ways-funding-healthcare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preventive healthcare, there is a mismatch between the funders and the beneficiaries OCT 1 marked the United Nations\u2019 International Day of Older Persons. Its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}