Intermediate and Long Term Care (ILTC) Services

Home-Based Services

Home-based services are provided within the homes of frail and home-bound clients who find it difficult to access services in the community. The services address both health and social care needs, support families in the care of their loved ones, and help seniors age in place. The services include:

Home Medical Care

Home Medical Care involves doctors visiting clients in their residences to provide medical services. This includes conducting minor medical procedures, comprehensive care assessments and providing long-term management of chronic conditions.

Apply for home medical services.

Home Nursing Care

Home Nursing Care involves nurses providing nursing care such as wound dressing, injections, stoma care and insertion of nasogastric tubes at the client’s residence. These nurses also play a key role in managing and reviewing the care plan of the client, in consultation with doctors, as well as providing caregiver training.

Apply for home nursing care services.

Home Palliative Care

Home palliative care delivers medical and nursing care to end-of-life patients and their families at the senior’s residence. The focus of home palliative care is to improve the quality of the patient’s remaining days through services such as pain control, symptom relieve and nursing care. It also supports the families through bereavement care.

Apply for home palliative care services.

Meals on Wheels

Meals on Wheels is a meal delivery programme that delivers daily meals to home-bound clients who are unable to buy or prepare meals and have no caregivers to assist them.

Apply for meals on wheels services.

Medical Escort and Transport Services

Medical Escort and Transport services provide escort and transportation for the client’s medical appointments if they are unable to attend on their own and/or have no suitable caregivers to take them for their appointments.

Apply for medical escort and transport service.

Home Personal Care

Home Personal Care involves having a trained carer to assist the client in their daily needs. This includes assisting with showering, housekeeping, medication reminders, mind-stimulating activities and other personal care tasks. Some providers under this service are able to look after clients (including those with dementia) at their homes when caregiving arrangements are not available. From 1 April 2026, enhanced HPC offers more tailored and frequent support for clients, including those with higher care needs. On top of the ADLs and IADLs support, enhanced HPC also provides new services such as technology-enabled monitoring to assure caregivers of the client's safety at home.

Apply for home personal care service.

Day Hospice Care

Day hospice care provides medical, nursing and psychosocial care in a centre-based environment to end-of-life patients.

Apply for day hospice care services.

Centre Based Services

Centre-based care services cater to clients who require care services during the day, usually on a regular basis, and are available at Senior Care Centres or Active Ageing Centre (Care). These centres are mostly located within the community, enabling those in need to receive services in a familiar environment close to their homes, and providing care for them while their family members are at work.

Community Rehabilitation Services

Community Rehabilitation aims to enable clients to regain or maintain their ability to perform daily activities, thereby allowing them to remain active and independent within the community. These services include the provision of physiotherapy and occupational therapy targeted at clients suffering from conditions (e.g. stroke, fractures, lower limb amputation, mental health conditions) that impair their ability to perform daily activities.

Apply for community rehabilitation services.

Day Care Services

Day care services aim to look after clients during the day. They aim to maintain a client’s health, well-being and ability to live independently in the community. Day care services provide opportunities for socialising among clients as well as assistance with activities of daily living such as eating and other activities such as exercise, handicraft sessions, reading, karaoke, etc.). Day care services also support and empower caregivers to continue caring for their loved ones through programmes such as support groups and talks.

Apply for day care services.

Residential ILTC Services

Community Hospitals

Community Hospitals are intermediate care facilities. They cater to patients who require a short period of continuing care, usually after their discharge from acute hospitals. The types of care provided at the Community Hospitals include medical, nursing and rehabilitation care.

Find out more on community hospital.

Nursing Homes

Nursing Homes are long-term residential care settings that provide a range of services to residents who have no family support and require assistance with most of their activities of daily living and/or daily nursing care. These nursing home residents are typically unable to be cared for at home by family members, caregivers or service providers. The services at nursing homes include medical care, nursing care and rehabilitative services.

Respite care is also available at some of the nursing homes where provision for short-term care of a few weeks can be arranged.

1. VWO Nursing Homes receiving MOH subsidies
   
   Respite care is also available at some of the nursing homes where provision for short-term care of a few weeks can be arranged.

2. VWO Nursing Homes that do not receive MOH subsidies
   
   Some VWO-operated Nursing Homes are funded through their own fund-raising and do not receive MOH subsidies. Although patients here are not subsidised by MOH, these VWOs are able to provide the necessary financial and social assistance to patients who are unable to afford the Nursing Home fees.

3. Private Nursing Homes which are under MOH portable subsidy scheme
   
   Since April 2003, MOH has extended subsidies to patients who meet the means test criteria and are admitted to accredited Private Nursing Homes. These homes have set aside a certain proportion of their beds for patients who are eligible for MOH subsidies and referred by AIC. This allows for greater private sector participation in the provision of MOH-subsidised care.

4. Private Nursing Homes which are not under the MOH portable subsidy scheme
   
   These are Private Nursing Homes, which cater to full-paying patients.
   
   Apply for nursing home services.

Rehabilitation Homes for Persons in Mental Health Recovery

A rehabilitation home caters to persons with stabilised mental health conditions who are in recovery and require a period of residential-based rehabilitation of life-skills training, with the potential for eventual reintegration back into the community.

Apply for psychiatric day care centres.

Inpatient Hospice Palliative Care Service (IHPCS)

The Inpatient Hospice Palliative Care Service (IHPCS) serves end-of-life patients who cannot be cared for at home and require inpatient care.

Find out more on inpatient hospice.

Respite Care

Respite care provides short-term care of several days, up to a month, at some nursing homes. Centre-based respite care is also available in some senior care centres for caregivers who need help for a few hours over the weekend.

Apply for nursing home respite care service.