Singapore is an aging population. Statistics show that elderly is expected to contribute more than 25% of the total population by the year 2030. Over the past decade(1990 to 2000), the population aged 65 and above had grown annually by about 3.7%. Demographic projections show that the proportion of elderly will increase from about 7% today to 19% by the year 2030, or one in every five people.

Besides that, among all the elderly in Singapore, only 34.5% of them are living with their children. 52.4% of them are living with their spouse while the 13.1% left are living with neither their spouse nor children. The number of elderly living alone shot up from 15,000 to 22,000 from 2000 to 2005. With this increasing rate of elderly living alone, more care and concern should be given to them.

Care and concern shown might be felt by the elderly, but language is still the only key to their inner heart. Statistics showed more than 60% of Chinese Singaporeans aged 15 to 24 spoke Mandarin most at home, and 18% spoke dialect. It shows that there is a need to work on the language barrier in order to reach out to the elderly effectively.