From personalised health dashboard to body servicing: Inside S’pore’s massive healthy ageing experiment
How Singapore is planning to add more healthy years to life.
Singapore is embarking on an ambitious experiment to extend healthy ageing, where seniors aged 65 and above will make up one in four residents by 2030. The country aims to shift from sick care to preventive care, focusing on adding more healthy years to life and reducing years of poor health, disability, and dependence. Funded by a $350 million research initiative under the RIE2030 framework, the grand challenge is being led by the National Research Foundation in partnership with the Ministry of Health.
The strategy goes beyond biological age clocks and geroscience, addressing socio-environmental factors that influence ageing. Residents will have access to personalised health plans, cognitive decline screenings, biological age assessments, precision plans to target physiological decline, and health monitoring technologies. The goal is to detect and intercept conditions like dementia and frailty early, enabling targeted interventions such as exercise regimens and supplements.
The approach aims to make healthcare accessible and affordable for all, with community hubs serving as distribution platforms for public goods.
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