MOH constantly seeking to improve nursing home designs

We thank Mr Low Yee Cheok for his letter “Visual presentation of eldercare facilities matters” (April 4). The Ministry of Health constantly seeks to improve our nursing home designs to provide a good environment in which seniors can recuperate.

We also seek to design our nursing homes to be aesthetically pleasing to the surrounding neighbourhood, and engage local communities to ask for feedback on the design.

For the nursing home in Choa Chu Kang North 6, we had earlier incorporated residents’ suggestions, such as having more greenery and a colour scheme that would allow the facility to blend in with its surroundings.

We recognise that the colour of the trimmings on the building can be adjusted to reflect our design more closely, and we are now doing so.

We appreciate Mr Low’s interest in our nursing homes, and look forward to continued support from the community as we develop more nursing homes across Singapore to meet the needs of our ageing population.