8 Best Home Care & Eldercare Services in Singapore 2026 — the Same Caregiving Hour Costs $2.40 or $55.59 Depending On Who You Call, and Half of This List Publishes No Price At All

Homage is the best-known home care platform in Singapore and the one that publishes the most complete price list of anyone here, which is why it belongs at the top even though it is not the cheapest. WHAT IT COSTS (pay-as-you-go, from Homage's own pricing page on 20 August 2026): ADL caregiving — help with bathing, dressing, toileting, transfers, feeding — is $28/hr on a weekday for a 1-2 hour visit, $29/hr on a weeknight or weekend, and $32/hr on a public holiday; book 3 hours or more and it drops to $27.50 / $28.50 / $31.50. Add simple nursing and it becomes $34 / $36 / $39 for a 1-2 hour visit, or $33 / $35 / $38 for 3 hours plus. Complex nursing 'starts from $80 onwards, chargeable per procedure'. PREPAID IS THE REAL SAVING: prepaid blocks run from $250 for 10 hours ($25/hr) down to $4,600 for 200 hours — $23/hr, the cheapest private rate anywhere on this list, and $5 an hour under the pay-as-you-go weekday rate. Blocks are valid 2 years and must be paid up front. ADL-plus-nursing blocks run $300/10hrs ($30/hr) to $5,300/200hrs ($26.50/hr). THERAPY: home physiotherapy or occupational therapy is $180 a session, or $670 for a package of 4 (that is $167.50 each); speech therapy is $200 a session. THE SURCHARGES PEOPLE MISS: +$5 for a short-hour visit under 3 hours and +$5 for an urgent booking within 24 hours, so an urgent 2-hour weekday visit is not $28/hr but $38/hr equivalent once both are added. A visit starting after 11pm or ending before 7am has commuting expenses charged separately, cancelling inside 24 hours is charged in full, and payment is debit or credit card only. GETTING STARTED: an in-person care assessment is $65.40 for an hour, with no cancellation charge. A Severe Disability Assessment — the formal three-of-six-ADL certification that unlocks the Home Caregiving Grant — is $250 for one recipient, or $100 per person if several are assessed together. WHO IT SUITS: families who want to see the rate before they call, need a caregiver at short notice, or want to lock a low hourly rate by pre-buying hours. Confirm current rates on the pricing page before booking; they change.

Jaga-Me, a member of Alliance Healthcare Group, is the one provider here whose published prices need no mental arithmetic: every figure on its pricing guide is marked 'w/gst', so what you read is what you pay. HOURLY CARE (GST-inclusive): home personal caregiving and medical escort on a weekday day shift (8am-8pm) is $37.06/hr for under 8 hours, $34.88/hr for 8 hours or more and $32.70/hr for 12 hours or more; the weekday night shift (8pm-8am) is $40.33 / $38.15 / $35.97; weekends and public holidays are a flat $43.60 / $41.42 / $39.24 for both day and night. NURSE CAREGIVING costs more because a nurse does it: weekday day $49.05 / $46.87 / $44.69, weekday night $52.32 / $50.14 / $48.96, weekend and PH $55.59 / $53.41 / $51.23 — the highest published hourly rate on this list. HOME MEDICAL: a doctor house call without a procedure is $294.30 in office hours and $457.80 outside them, where 'office hours' means weekdays 8am-5pm only, so a 6pm Tuesday call is charged at the after-hours rate. Certification of Cause of Death is $381.50 / $501.40. An overtime charge applies to house calls running past 45 minutes. NURSING PROCEDURES, inclusive of essential consumables, are $130.80 to $218.00 on a weekday day (7am-8pm) and $174.40 to $261.60 on weekday nights, weekends and public holidays — and note that Basic, Intermediate and Advanced skill sets share the same price band, so a tracheostomy suction and a simple wound dressing can cost the same. Each procedure allows up to 1 hour, or 1.5 hours for complex and VAC dressings. THE TWO EXTRAS TO BUDGET FOR: transport is $30 ($32.70 with GST) charged separately on every visit, plus a further $50 ($54.50 with GST) surcharge for Sentosa, Changi Airport Cargo Complex, Jurong Island, Tuas South and Aviation Park; and for medical escort, transport is not included and is borne by the patient. THE BEST-VALUE LINE ON THE WHOLE PAGE: caregiver training is $218 without subsidies and $10 with them — a 95% cut, and the cheapest way to make the family the caregiver rather than buying hours forever. Severe Disability Assessment is $250, the same as Homage. CONTACT: Care Navigators on 6717 3737; office at 25 Bukit Batok Crescent #07-05, clinic at 2 St George's Road; open 7am-8pm weekdays and 7am-2pm weekends.

NTUC Health is the largest MOH-funded eldercare operator on this list, and its published 'starting from' figures are what makes the rest of the market look expensive — because they are post-subsidy floors, not the full price. WHAT ITS OWN PAGES PRINT (20 August 2026): home personal care from $2.40 per hour on a weekday, with surcharges for weekends and public holidays; home nursing from $0.00 per visit; home medical from $24.20 per visit; home therapy from $16.80 per visit; interim caregiver service from $326.40 per 6-day shift; and its nursing home fees at $160 to $190 per day. SUBSIDIES: up to 80% of the fee on home care services and up to 75% on nursing homes, assessed through the National Means Testing System — which is exactly why one page can advertise $2.40 an hour and a private provider charges $37.06 for the same hour. READ THE SECOND FEE TABLE TOO: NTUC Health's Home Care service page carries its own modular price list (before GST) that does not match the headline — Personal Care is listed there from $4.80/hour for a 1-3 hour visit, with a 4-hour shift from $18.50, an 8-hour shift from $52.90 and a 12-hour shift from $152.25. Both sets are subsidised floors published by the same organisation, so ask which tier your means-test result actually puts you in rather than budgeting on the lowest number you saw. THE REST OF THE MODULES: professional housekeeping from $6.30/hour with a 7-hour monthly cap; custodial support — regular telephone or video check-ins plus admin help — from $11.65/month; and 24/7 fall and movement monitoring with emergency medical activation from $9.10/month, which is the cheapest line item in this entire guide. THE ADMIN YOU WILL BE CHARGED: a one-time, non-refundable $60 admin fee, and an annual cap of 360 hours on Personal Care. HOURS: Monday to Sunday, 8am-8pm including public holidays; after-hours is possible subject to availability and carries surcharges. NTUC Health also runs Senior Day Care and DayCare+ for dementia, where fees vary by the services required and are quoted on enquiry (care@ntuchealth.sg). WHO IT SUITS: any family that has not yet been means-tested. Start here, get the assessment, and only then compare private rates — the difference is not marginal.

Active Global is the answer for families who need someone in the house around the clock rather than hours booked in blocks, and it is the only provider here that publishes what live-in care actually costs. WHAT IT PUBLISHES on its own homepage (20 August 2026): live-in caregivers — foreign nurses and nursing aides trained to care for an elderly family member — at a monthly salary of S$600 to S$1,000; private nursing, described as a local nursing service with flexible hours, starting at S$27.50 per hour; home medical with local physicians specialising in family medicine from S$170 per house call; and home physiotherapy with a first session at S$160. Treat the live-in figure as the caregiver's salary line rather than the all-in monthly cost — as with any foreign-worker placement, agency, permit and levy costs sit on top, so ask for the full monthly total in writing before committing. THE PART MOST FAMILIES DON'T REALISE: Active Global operates subsidised Home Care services under Singapore's Ministry of Health as well as its private live-in business, and it runs Senior Care Centres open 7 days a week, 365 days a year. So the same agency can quote you a private live-in caregiver and a subsidised home care package, which makes it a useful single phone call when you don't yet know which side you qualify for. ALSO OFFERED: a Household Service Scheme using trained foreign workers for part-time basic elderly care, an Advance Placement Scheme for families planning ahead, plus home dialysis support for peritoneal dialysis patients, speech therapy and physiotherapy. The company also operates in Hong Kong. CONTACT: a 24/7 line on +65 6536 0086. WHO IT SUITS: families facing 24-hour needs — advanced dementia, post-stroke, a parent who cannot be left alone — where buying 12 private hours a day at $32.70 to $44.69 would be ruinous, and a live-in arrangement is the only affordable structure. WHAT TO CHECK: the caregiver's specific training and nursing background, the replacement policy if the match does not work, and every cost beyond the published salary.

St Luke's ElderCare (SLEC) is the largest community-care network on this list and the one to call when the need is a place for a parent to spend the day, not someone coming to the flat. THE FOOTPRINT, from SLEC's own services page on 20 August 2026: 16 centre-based nursing centres — Ang Mo Kio, Ang Mo Kio Polyclinic, Bukit Batok, Hougang Meadow, Jurong East, Keat Hong, Kebun Baru, Marine Parade, One Punggol, Rivervale, Salem, Serangoon, Sumang, Tampines, Telok Blangah and Whampoa — plus 13 Active Ageing Centres (Care) at Anchorvale, Ayer Rajah, Bishan, Bukit Timah, Changkat, Chong Pang, Clementi, Golden Years, Hougang, Nee Soon Central, Nee Soon East, Northshore and Teck Whye Vista. That is 29 named locations, which is why SLEC is usually the nearest option to any HDB town. WHAT IT RUNS: maintenance day care, dementia day care, day rehabilitation, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, community musculoskeletal rehabilitation, the I-Shall programme, centre-based nursing, a residential home (St Luke's ElderCare Residence), and a full home-based set — home medical, home nursing, home personal care, home therapy and home dietetics. THE DETAIL NOBODY ELSE OFFERS: admission to SLEC's Social Day Care, Rehab and Weekend Respite Care programmes is open to Singaporeans, Permanent Residents AND foreigners, regardless of race and religion — every other subsidised provider here is effectively citizens-and-PRs-first, so an expatriate family caring for a parent on a Long-Term Visit Pass has a real option. NO PRICES: SLEC publishes no fees anywhere on its services pages. Referrals are made via hospitals, general practitioners, polyclinics and other elderly services, and the fee conversation happens after that referral. As a charity it is subsidised, and it announced a $30 million Community Transformation Fund to be raised over five years, so expect means-tested rather than commercial pricing. WHO IT SUITS: a parent who is safe at home overnight but should not be alone all day; families needing weekend respite; and non-citizens shut out elsewhere. WHAT TO CHECK: which specific centre has capacity — a 29-centre network does not mean the one near you has a place this month.

Orange Valley is one of Singapore's larger private nursing home groups, and a fair illustration of how this market prices: its own page is titled 'Admission & Fees' and contains no fee. THE HOMES: seven branches, at Marsiling, Clementi, Simei, Balestier, Changi, Woodlands Peak and Alkaff Crescent — so unlike most private operators there is a realistic chance of finding one near the family, which matters more than families expect, because visiting frequency drops with distance. WHAT IT OFFERS: residential nursing care, long-term care, respite care (short stays), rehabilitation services, dementia care, plus community-facing services — an Active Ageing Centre (Care), maintenance day care, dementia day care and community rehab. HOW PRICING ACTUALLY WORKS HERE, in Orange Valley's own words: a Care Coordinator gives you 'the estimated care charges depending on the level of care required and your choice of room type' in a private discussion, and there is a face-to-face financial counselling session before admission. In other words the number is produced for you, not published — so get it in writing and ask specifically what is excluded. THE SUBSIDY LINE THAT MATTERS: Orange Valley states its nursing home is able to accept residents receiving subsidy from the Ministry of Health, with subsidies subject to means testing by the Agency for Integrated Care. That makes it one of the private homes worth asking about even on a modest budget. WHAT ADMISSION REQUIRES — worth preparing before you call, because families are routinely sent away to fetch these: recent medical documents (a hospital discharge or in-patient summary, or a GP memo), a chest X-ray report and a medicine list, all dated no earlier than six months from the intended admission date. Dedicated medical transport is provided for the move in, and a list of things to bring is shared beforehand. CONTACT: head office at 2 International Business Park, The Strategy Tower 1 #10-11, Singapore 609930; +65 6499 4699; enquiry@orangevalley.sg. WHO IT SUITS: families who need a residential place and want a branch close enough to visit weekly. WHAT TO CHECK: the daily rate for the specific room type at the specific branch, in writing, and whether the AIC means-test has been done first.

ECON Healthcare Group is one of the oldest and largest private nursing home operators in the region, and the reason to keep it on a shortlist in 2026 is capacity rather than price. THE FOOTPRINT, from ECON's own Singapore page on 20 August 2026: it owns and manages nine medicare centres and nursing homes across Singapore, part of 12 nursing homes in the Asia region, and states it has served over 8,000 families in Singapore, Malaysia and China. THE 2026 CHANGE THAT MATTERS: ECON says the new ECON Medicare Centre and Nursing Home – Jurong East is expected to be operational in 2026, with a 732-bed capacity. In a market where the honest answer to 'when can my father move in' is often a waiting list, a single new home of that size is the most consequential thing happening in private nursing care this year — worth an enquiry specifically about Jurong East timing if you are planning a placement for late 2026. WHAT IT PROVIDES: long- and short-term care covering stroke management, dementia care, chronic disease management and post-surgery care. ECON describes living spaces kept spacious, well-ventilated and clean, an in-house kitchen at each home able to cater to residents with specific dietary requirements — which is more useful than it sounds for diabetic, renal or texture-modified diets — and communal spaces including rooftop gardens used for gardening, calligraphy, brain gym and maintenance exercises. The group also runs ECON Chinese Medicine, so TCM is available within the same organisation. NO PUBLISHED RATES: ECON's Singapore pages carry no daily or monthly fees, and no statement about MOH subsidy or means-tested beds, so both must be asked directly. Treat any per-month figure you find on a third-party portal as unverified — those numbers are frequently years out of date. WHO IT SUITS: families who need a bed sooner rather than later, want an operator with decades of scale behind it, or have specific dietary requirements to accommodate. WHAT TO CHECK: which of the nine homes has a bed, the all-in daily rate for the room class you are being offered, whether that home has MOH-subsidised places, and the expected opening date for Jurong East if you can wait for it.

Allium Healthcare is the top of this market and the clearest contrast with everything above it: where subsidised providers describe beds, Allium describes suites. WHAT IT IS, from Allium's own site on 20 August 2026: a nursing home at 71 Venus Drive, Singapore 573859, drawing on two decades of aged-care experience in Singapore and Australia, positioning itself where 'medical expertise meets the warmth of luxury hospitality'. THE SUITES, which is how it prices rather than by ward class: the Classic Suite is a companion room of 25 square metres; the Signature Suite comes as single and companion rooms of 21 to 31 square metres; and the Executive Suite is single and companion rooms of 38 to 53 square metres. For reference, 53 square metres is larger than many two-room HDB flats. THE SERVICES: residential care in single and companion suites with 24-hour nursing for short- or long-term stays; day care in half- and full-day programmes with social, cognitive and physical activities; rehabilitation, both inpatient and outpatient; specialised dementia care across the stages; and respite care for post-surgery recovery or a caregiving emergency — that last one is the underrated use of a premium home, a two-week stay that lets a family caregiver recover instead of collapsing. NO PUBLISHED RATES, and visits are strictly by appointment, so a walk-in tour is not possible. Assume a private-pay bill well above the $160-$190 a day that NTUC Health publishes for its nursing home, and ask what the suite rate includes — nursing hours, therapy sessions, doctor reviews and consumables are the four things that most often sit outside a headline residential rate. CONTACT: Residential Care +65 6335 0606; Day Care and Rehabilitation +65 6335 0610; Previews and Admissions +65 8733 8099; enquiries@alliumhealthcare.com. WHO IT SUITS: families for whom the constraint is availability and environment rather than budget, anyone needing inpatient rehab in a hotel-standard setting, and — the practical case — anyone needing a short respite stay at speed. WHAT TO CHECK: the all-in monthly figure for the specific suite, what triggers an extra charge, and whether the day care programme can be used as a trial before a residential commitment.