Ageing Futures and Resource Environments of Foreign–born Singapore Residents

This project advances conceptual knowledge on the resource environments of foreign-born older adults. It integrates conceptual understanding of social networks and integration with healthcare/eldercare and productive ageing, rather than work on these domains in silos as existing research does. The central research question is: As foreign-born Singapore residents progress into older age, what are their local and transnational resource environments like (compared to the local-born), and how do they draw on or plan to draw on these resource environments to meet their eldercare needs?

This project will integrate quantitative and qualitative research methods through two work packages to develop a comprehensive understanding of foreign- and local-born older adults' resource environments. The research objectives are to understand:

• How foreign-born Singapore residents experience and perceive ageing;

• What their resource environments are like in terms of local and transnational flows of material resources and social networks; and

• How they strategically navigate their resource environments to serve their healthcare and eldercare needs.

This project will extend conceptual knowledge on the differentiated resource environments of foreign-born older adults, augmenting ageing-migration and life-course theories for Migration Studies and Social and Geographical Gerontology. It will be the first baseline study of foreign-born Singapore residents (and in comparative perspective with the local-born), providing the basis to inform policymaking for a super-diverse and super-ageing society.