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+) 

Under the HPC+ service, seniors can receive services to support their care, 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. 

More information on HPC+ can be found on the AIC website.

Shared Stay-in Senior Caregiving Services

The Shared Stay-in Senior Caregiving Services is a care model where a caregiver assists a group of seniors living in the same residence with their activities of daily living and social programmes, similar to how families would provide caregiving for their loved ones. Service providers enjoy work pass flexibilities and training subsidies to support a sustainable model of manpower deployment to care for seniors.

Service providers, families and seniors can refer to the guide on the recommended good practices when providing or seeking such a service. More information on Shared Stay-in Senior Caregiving Services and the good practice guide can be found on the AIC website.

Seamless delivery of care

Today, seniors with multiple care needs may have to interact with multiple care providers, for example, day care and home care, and undergo repeated assessments from each provider.

To provide a more seamless care journey for seniors and their caregivers, we have appointed an Integrated Community Care Provider (ICCP) to oversee care coordination for each sub-region. The ICCPs will offer a standardised care assessment that eliminates the need for multiple different assessments and develop a holistic community care plan for each senior with care needs. This care plan will align community care partners to the care goals of each senior and ensure that they receive timely care and support as and when their needs evolve.

We are rolling this out in stages:

• Since April 2026, seniors who require long-term care services have started receiving one standardised care assessment.

• From October 2026, seniors will also progressively have a single holistic community care plan developed that cuts across long-term care services.

Support for Caregiver Training

Caregivers can tap on up to $400 in Caregivers Training Grant (CTG) subsidies per year. Caregivers can also utilise 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 through the Caregivers Training Catalogue!