Step out of the lift in this Housing Board block and one spots a metal gate, a sign saying it closes at 10pm daily, murals along the corridor, and residents’ names on doors.
Two to three elderly people live in each one-room rental flat, and amid the units are purpose-built spaces such as recreation rooms, with TVs screening shows in different languages, a laundry room, a “nursing station” for nursing care, and a kitchen.
Welcome to the AWWA Senior Community Home, on the second to fourth levels of the 12-floor Block 123 in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6.
Set up in 1976, it is the first seniors’ home to be sited in an HDB rental block, and is believed to be the only one of its kind – and scale.
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Source: The Straits Times, 26 June 2016