I'm cynical

I'm working on stakeholder analysis for this proposed project for Holland Village.
Basically, if you read all my posts, you'll know that Holland village has a higher than national average concentration of old people. Our group thought that some social issue was the problem.
Most of these elderly have children who are now on the other side of the island where all the BTO flats are. This of course, is the government's fault and oversight: mature estates are where you can't build new flats. Yet mature estates are where you'll find many newly wedded couples leaving.

This is a crunch time isn't it? The BTO scheme develops non-mature estates and thus are sucking young people away from mature estates, leaving behind their parents.
Then the government turns around and says "hey look, you better take care of your parents because we have the parents maintenance act in play."

But meanwhile, such an act is nearly impossible to enforce. So what we have is some grannies and old uncles, living lonely lives in their mature estates.
So naive as we are, we want to give them a healthy, active ageing lifestyle.
We are going to propose elderly centres at the void decks.

I was skeptical, but it's a project isn't it? We're fools aren't we? Not particularly qualified nor brilliant, nor responsible for success. It's just hot air isn't it? Let's just do the stakeholder assessment and get this over and done with... or can we?

http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/government-fights-lonely-battle-for-eldercare-centres/
My suspicions were confirmed when I read this article. Yeah, our government has built itself a trap. Coming in fast is the tide of increasing self-centredness in Singapore. We are caught between a rock and a hard.. wave.
The nimby (not in my backyard) sentiment is just... the nail in the coffin. It is made worse, indeed as the author mentions, by the liberalisation of CPF and the government's promise.
Basically, the government needs to somehow get elderly centres built while not bring bringing the prices of flats down.

But how can that be possible? Our incredibly superstitious society will have none of it. They will not entertain the prospect of studio apartments where the old come to live and die, they will not entertain allowing their void decks to become a hotspot for deaths.
They will not let studio apartments swallow up the green space which makes their estate so prime.

Stakeholder analysis? I'd say it is in the best interest of the government to do whatever it has done thus far: the paternalistic style. Just heck care, just build it.
Of course, it's going to see its votes plummet. But maybe the silver lobby will be its hedge.

Singapore is on track to be a very different place, but why should we expect it to stay the same?
Our circumstances have changed- the population is greyer than ever.