Sunday, October 25, 2009

Retiring an active and fulfilling life

Singapore Minister Lim Boon Heng is the head of The Ministerial Committee on Ageing. Mr Lim said that plans to promote active living among old people includes the Council for Third Age to champion active ageing, other initiatives include ComCare, CPF Life and the 3Ms framework, which will all help the elderly finance their long-term needs.

It aims to enable Singapore elderly to remain active, independent, financially secure and productively engaged with the wider community.

To the individual active agers, able to slowing down and taking time off to smell the roses, doing things like able to help out at the community level and organising regular exercise seesions for the seniors to lead active and fulfilling life.