Singapore legislation
Regulation 5
Regulation 5
Provision of facilities and services
The licensee shall —
provide recreational facilities for residents;
provide, where necessary, occupational therapy and physiotherapy for residents;
provide a counselling service for residents;
provide suitable facilities for visits to the home by care persons and encourage care persons to maintain regular contacts with residents;
provide every resident with a locker or storage space of such size as is sufficient to contain the personal effects, such as clothing, of the resident;
provide every resident with a bed space of not less than 3.5 square metres and the distance between the beds shall not be less than one metre to facilitate wheelchair movement and the placement of a screen around a bed whenever required;
put up a written menu for meals for residents and provide suitable and properly prepared food for the residents;
employ suitably qualified and competent care staff and nurses in numbers which shall be determined by the Director-General having regard to the number, age, sex and condition of residents; and
make arrangements for residents to receive, where necessary, medical services from a medical practitioner.