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| − | ==='''Caregivers can access financial support → Caregivers can bear the financial costs of care'''===
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| − | ==='''Caregivers do future care planning → Caregivers are equipped with information and skills at different steps of the care journey'''===
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| − | *'''Although long-term care planning services exist, caregivers worry about the lack of supply of such services and the lack of options beyond loved ones in residential homes.'''
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| − | | style="width: 33.3%;" |'''EXISTING RESOURCES'''
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| − | | style="width: 33.3%;" |'''GAPS AND THEIR CAUSES'''
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| − | |'''[https://www.sgenable.sg/pages/content.aspx?path=/caregiver-support/assisted-deputyship-2/ Assisted Deputyship Application Programme (ADAP)]'''
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| − | *Helps parents of graduating cohorts in Special Education (SPED) schools apply to Court to be deputies for their child, so that they can continue to make legal decisions for their child after he or she turns 21
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| − | *"Demand for affordable deputyship applications greatly exceeds supply of available help, including NUS Law undergraduates - in MINDS, the waiting list runs to a few hundred parents"
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| − | *EM3 (Recommendation 14)
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| − | **To simplify deputyship and Lasting Power of Attorney processes for caregivers
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| − | ***MINDS is heading a pilot to simplify deputyship applications for caregivers of graduating SPED students
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| − | *For the government to take up the mantle of facilitating deputyship applications, free-of-charge if possible
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| − | |[https://www.sntc.org.sg/Pages/Home.aspx '''Special Needs Trust''' '''Company (SNTC) Trust''']
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| − | *Allows family members to set aside money and assets in SNTC accounts, and aims to safeguard these assets to enhance the beneficiary's financial security and well-being
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| − | *447 SNTC accounts have been opened, out of 117,000 estimated people who might require it ([http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/few-set-up-trust-fund-to-care-for-kin-with-disabilities ST 29 Mar 2017])
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| − | *While caregivers acknowledged that SNTC was a good start, they were worried about the lack of options for future care needs and planning, beyond placing their loved ones in Adult Disability Homes<ref name=":122" />
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| − | |EM3 (Recommendation 14)
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| − | *To raise awareness of importance of legal, financial and care planning, and services.
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| − | **SNTC to continue expanding outreach to caregivers, and consider partnering agencies providing direct services to disabled people for more integrated and holistic support to caregivers
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| − | **Service providers, including the Office of the Public Guardian and Law Society, to educate caregivers on legal/financial matters such as applying for deputyship
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| − | **To create a system of support at caregivers' natural touchpoints, that would help them in future care planning such as identifying the next caregiver and transitioning of the caregiver role when the time comes, and including documenting and passing on caregiving knowledge.
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| − | *Enable disabled care recipients to make more independent decisions for themselves for the future, something which caregivers tend to do. Depending on the disability type and functioning level, some caregivers can unintentionally prevent their care recipients from learning useful independent living skills through mollycoddling.
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| − | |'''[https://www.sntc.org.sg/Pages/snss_about.aspx?MainMenu=Special%20Needs%20Savings%20Scheme Special Needs Savings Scheme]'''
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| − | *Enables parents to set aside CPF savings for the long term care of children with special needs
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| − | *Parents may nominate their loved one with special needs to receive a regular stream of fixed pay-outs upon the parent’s demise.
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