The Centre for Ageing Research in the Environment (CARE)

We promote excellence in research and education related to ageing, healthcare and the environment. Our expertise covers a broad range of ageing research that investigates different scales of the build and natural physical environments.

Engaging Minds Transforming Lives

SUCCESSFULL COMMUNITY AGEING-IN-PLACE (MANDARIN ORIENTAL BALLROOM 1)

Population ageing is a global phenomenon in which the most sustainable form leverages on community-centric support for elderly residents in the neighbourhood.

Catch Prof Fung in CNA’s documentary, “Adapting to Ageing”!

Ever wondered how our ageing population is coping in our modern landscape?

Building Resilient Neighbourhoods: The Convergence of Policies, Research and Practice (Seminar Room 3-5, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (Bukit Timah Campus))

A workshop jointly organised by Institute of Policy Studies’ Social Lab and NUS School of Design and Environment’s Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities

Our Publications

RE-IMAGINING THE NURSING HOME IN SINGAPORE

October 27, 2022

An invaluable resource for everyone who is involved in the planning, design, operation and management of nursing and eldercare facilities; especially in integrating the needs of the elderly within a modern high-density urban community like Singapore. This Design Sourcebook offers a quick and multi-faceted reference kit to jump-start the design and development of a nursing

Read More

Dementia Design Sourcebook

October 27, 2022

Insofar as design of the physical environments for dementia care is concerned, there is no golden rule. Much of the current best practices involve city-fringed, lowrise and low-density settings. Whereas, in a highrise urban city like Singapore, density is a daily conundrum to overcome and this poses certain challenges to design that are perhaps nto

Read More