Publication Type
Magazine Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2018
Abstract
In recent years, much attention has been paid to the elderly population of Singapore—often manifested as articles about the “silver tsunami” as well as an ageing population’s impact on the economy, workforce and healthcare. However, there are much fewer discussions that touch on how a growing number of people are dying, and how these deaths can pose signifi cant challenges in themselves. At the macro level, the general belief is that an economy can be kept going as long as businesses raise productivity and expand their market presence through “gamechanging” innovations. However, when it comes to addressing a problem like elderly isolation (or inclusion— depending on one’s view of the glass being half-empty or half-full), the solution is less obvious. At least from the way I see it, I am not so sure if we as a society truly understand the nature of this “problem” in the first place.
Discipline
Family, Life Course, and Society | Social Psychology and Interaction
Publication
Social Space
ISSN/ISBN
1793-7809
Publisher/Conference
Lien Centre
Copyright Owner and License
Lien Centre for Social Innovation
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Citation
Lin, Mark.
Die-logue: Elderly isolation and the need to talk about death. (2018). Social Space. 44-46.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lien_research/131
Additional URL
https://socialspacemag.org/magazines/