Singapore legislation

Regulation 5

of Homes for the Aged Regulations

Regulation 5

Provision of facilities and services

Amended byS 524/2020 wef 01/07/2020

The licensee shall —

(a)

provide recreational facilities for residents;

(b)

provide, where necessary, occupational therapy and physiotherapy for residents;

(c)

provide a counselling service for residents;

(d)

provide suitable facilities for visits to the home by care persons and encourage care persons to maintain regular contacts with residents;

(e)

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;

(f)

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;

(g)

put up a written menu for meals for residents and provide suitable and properly prepared food for the residents;

(h)

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

(i)

make arrangements for residents to receive, where necessary, medical services from a medical practitioner.