About 90% of hospitalisations occur in the last ten years of a person’s life.
Yet there is another kind of institutional care that the old will also require. In Singapore, it is likely that 8% of the elderly will re quire step-down geriatric care about 3% (with “severe disabilities”) in hospitals, hospices and old-people’s homes, the remaining 5% through home nursing, day rehabilitation centres and community services
. That could mean 37,000 frail old people in 2030. Between 2000 and 2004 the number of residents in nursing homes rose by 45% to 6577