00:00Former director of the Division of Ageing, Dr. Jennifer Rouse, says the conversation around ageing has shifted from a social
00:08concern to more of an economic one, as a longer life expectancy brings greater demands for care and support.
00:15Recently, in the last elections, which was 2025, what the EBC did, which was so good, they did a snapshot
00:23survey because they wanted an idea of what their voting bloc looked like. And when they did this, like a
00:30representative sample to know, well, who comprised this? They got a thousand centenarians in this bloc. The eldest was 1
00:41,12.
00:421,000 centenarians existing? In this little representative sample, like going door-to-door? Yes. Yeah.
00:51She tells the Morning Edition, while older citizens must be prioritised, caregivers also need greater support to ensure they provide
01:00quality care.
01:01Caring the carers. Maybe I should ask you, what are some of the challenges caregivers face? Burnout, head in the
01:08list.
01:08And Dr. Rouse says the approach to elderly care must also change, with more dignified and age-appropriate facilities needed
01:18to meet the needs of an ageing population.
01:20I don't want something called a home for the age. No. I want it, and that's when I started lobbying
01:27for assisted living facilities, which are dominant in the global, and you live now in a communal setting and independent.
01:39You can have your own suite or whatever. And that would serve us better because of the unmarried and all
01:45these different people.
01:47So that has now started to blossom, in case you didn't know.
01:51Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
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