29
January
2018
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15:54
Asia/Singapore

Survey: 30 per cent of seniors feel that they are “old and worthless” due to debilitating illness

A joint study by Duke-NUS Medical School, the Dept of Sociology at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Duke University has found that 30 per cent of seniors feel they are "old and worthless" because they suffer from a debilitating illness. The survey was conducted on 5,000 seniors in Singapore aged 60 and above.