NEARLY half of healthcare practitioners believe Singaporeans will be hard-pressed to cope with the health expenses of living to 100, a survey by Prudential has found.
This is because a greater number of them possibly need to manage more than one chronic disease in their old age.
But residents themselves are even more pessimistic - 55 per cent in a separate survey said they were not ready from a health and wellness perspective to reach 100.
The number of older adults who develop more than one chronic condition, called multi-morbidity, has been growing with more than half of Singapore's residents who are older than 60 falling into this category.
Last month, it was reported that Singaporeans topped...
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