8 Best Home Care & Eldercare Services in Singapore 2026: the Same Caregiving Hour Costs $4.80 or $55.59 Depending On Who You Call

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, re-checked on Homage's own pricing page on 29 September 2026): ADL caregiving, meaning help with bathing, dressing, toileting, transfers and 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 a 3-12 hour visit 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, WITH ONE CATCH: blocks run $250 for 10 hours ($25/hr), $980 for 40 ($24.50/hr), $1,920 for 80 ($24/hr) and $4,600 for 200 hours, which is $23/hr, the cheapest private rate anywhere on this list and $5 an hour under the pay-as-you-go weekday rate. The catch is that prepaid hours still carry an hourly surcharge outside weekday daytime: +$1/hr on a weeknight or weekend and +$4/hr on a public holiday for ADL, +$2 and +$5 for ADL-plus-nursing. So $23/hr is a weekday number, not a flat one. Blocks are valid 2 years from purchase, must be paid up front and exclude complex nursing. 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 one-way commuting expenses charged separately (two-way if it both starts and ends between 11pm and 7am), and payment is debit or credit card only.CANCELLING COSTS MONEY EARLIER THAN PEOPLE EXPECT: $25 to cancel and $15 to change between 24 hours and 7 days before the visit, and inside 24 hours the full service fee of the scheduled visit.GETTING STARTED: an in-person care assessment is $65.40 for an hour, with no cancellation charge. A Severe Disability Assessment, the certification used for CareShield Life and ElderShield claims, is $250 for one recipient, or $100 per person if several are assessed together. You do not need it just for the Home Caregiving Grant: AIC accepts a Functional Assessment Report from a GP or another registered professional instead. If you do need the CareShield Life version, read NTUC Health below: it charges the same $250 but says the first CareShield Life assessment is free and a successful application is fully reimbursed.IT IS NOT PURELY PRIVATE: Homage's own price page links a Home Nursing Foundation tie-up offering means-tested subsidised home care, nursing and therapy, so ask about that before you accept the private rate.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, publishes its entire rate card GST-inclusive: every figure on its pricing guide is marked 'w/gst', so what you read is what you pay. Homage is GST-inclusive too (it says so at the top of its price list), so these two private providers can be compared head to head without adding 9% to either. 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. 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.IT HAS RESTRUCTURED: since 1 April 2026, home care has been sold as Enhanced Home Personal Care (HPC+), a set of defined modules with fixed hour bundles and subsidy caps, replacing the older weekday/weekend hourly card, so any $2.40-an-hour figure you still find on a third-party page is out of date. WHAT ITS OWN PAGES PRINT (29 September 2026): Module B Personal Care from $4.80 per hour for a 1, 2 or 3-hour session; from $18.50 for a 4-hour shift; from $52.90 for an 8-hour shift; and from $152.25 for a 12-hour shift. Module A professional housekeeping is from $6.30/hour, capped at 7 subsidised hours a month. Module C custodial support, meaning regular telephone or video check-ins plus admin help, is from $11.65/month. Module D, 24/7 fall and movement monitoring with emergency medical activation, is from $9.10/month, the cheapest line item in this entire guide.BILLED SEPARATELY: home medical from $22.55 a visit, home nursing from $10.95 a visit, home therapy from $12.70 a visit.NURSING HOMES: $134 to $178 per day, or $756 to $5,400 a month, with medication and other consumables charged on top.SUBSIDIES, AND THE CEILING HAS MOVED: its home care fee pages now state government subsidies covering up to 95% of the fee, not the 80% widely quoted, while nursing home fees remain subsidised up to 80%. Its subsidies page shows why: a revised tier pays 95% on home and day care to Singapore Citizens born in 1969 or earlier (80% for citizens born after 1969, 55% for PRs) and extends subsidy eligibility from a per-capita household income ceiling of $3,600 up to $4,800. The page does not state the switchover date, so confirm which table applies to you. This is exactly why one page can advertise $4.80 an hour while a private provider charges $37.06 for the same hour.WATCH THE PER-HOUR MATH: unlike the private providers, NTUC Health's bundles do NOT get cheaper per hour as they get longer, $4.80/hr for a short session works out to about $6.61/hr on an 8-hour shift and $12.69/hr on a 12-hour one, so the long block is not automatically the saving.THE ADMIN YOU WILL BE CHARGED: a one-time, non-refundable $60 admin fee (stated before GST), and an annual cap of 360 subsidised hours on Personal Care, there is no service cap for private clients.THE ASSESSMENT BARGAIN NOBODY MENTIONS: NTUC Health charges $250 for a Disability Assessment with GST included, but states that the first assessment for CareShield Life is free and that a successful application is fully reimbursed through MOH/AIC. That makes it the cheapest route to the CareShield Life certification; for the Home Caregiving Grant alone, a GP's Functional Assessment Report is enough. HOURS: Monday to Sunday, 8am-8pm including public holidays; after-hours is subject to availability. It no longer publishes an interim caregiver rate. NTUC Health also runs Senior Day Care and DayCare+ for dementia, 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 pages (re-checked 29 September 2026): live-in caregivers, meaning 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 from an average S$27.50 per hour; home medical from S$270 per house call; and home physiotherapy with a first session at S$160. Two of those four headline numbers need unpacking, and both unpack upwards. THE LIVE-IN SALARY IS NOT THE COST OF A LIVE-IN CAREGIVER. Its Our Fees page prices the placement separately: a one-off service fee with GST of S$2,725 for a caregiver from Myanmar, Sri Lanka or India, S$2,875 from Indonesia, S$3,161 from the Philippines, S$3,324.50 on the Advance Placement Scheme and S$3,597 for paediatric cases. On top of that sit third-party costs: work permit application S$35 and issuance S$35, pre-employment medical S$38, insurance from S$556.90 for 26 months, an air ticket of S$200 for Filipino caregivers, a S$75 settling-in programme for first-time workers and S$60 serology testing for those vaccinated overseas. Then the monthly FDW levy of S$300, which Active Global notes can drop to S$60 under the Aged Person or Persons with Disabilities schemes. So the honest first-year figure is roughly S$3,600 upfront plus salary plus levy, not S$600 a month. Accommodating the caregiver on the employer's behalf is a further S$43.60 a day. Ignore the same page's line that the Home Caregiving Grant is 'another S$200/month': AIC now pays up to $600 a month, depending on household income. THE S$27.50 IS A BUNDLE AVERAGE, NOT AN HOURLY RATE. Its private nursing page prices four products: a single clinical procedure visit at S$125.20; a 50-hour Elder Sitting bundle at S$3,130, which is S$62.60 an hour; ten half days of 5 hours at S$1,450, which is S$29 an hour; and five full days of 10 hours at S$1,375, which is the S$27.50. To reach S$27.50 you must buy 50 hours of full-day care in one go. A family needing two hours on a Tuesday pays S$62.60 an hour, more than double Homage's $28. Sundays, nights and public holidays add S$5.50 an hour to the day bundles and S$100.62 to a single procedure visit; extensions are S$62.60 an hour, S$145 a half day or S$275 a full day. HOME MEDICAL HAS GONE UP, AND IT IS NOT ACTIVE GLOBAL'S OWN DOCTORS. The service is delivered by Speedoc: a house call is S$270 on a weekday between 8am and 7.59pm, S$320 on weekends and public holidays, S$370 on a weekday night and S$420 at night on weekends and public holidays, none of which includes medication or procedures. A death certificate is S$436 including GST, at any hour, any day. Anyone still quoting a S$170 house call here is working from an old page.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 such as advanced dementia, post-stroke recovery, or 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. It is the wrong shape for short, occasional visits.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 29 September 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 29 September 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. Its Singapore site now also lists home care (personal care, nursing and home rehabilitation), rehabilitation, an Active Ageing Centre and caregiver training, with no prices on any of them.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 home has a bed, its nursing-home page lists nine entries but Buangkok Block 5 and Block 9 share one address at 10 Buangkok View, so that is eight distinct sites, 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. IT HAS ALSO STOPPED HIDING ITS PRICES, which is the single biggest change on this page since our August check. WHAT IT IS, from Allium's own site on 29 September 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.THE RATES IT NOW PUBLISHES: a Cost Navigator on Allium's own site returns a daily estimate once you pick a suite, a length of stay and a nine-part care-needs self-assessment. For a stay of two months or more, and before GST, it quotes $250 a day for the Classic Companion Suite, $295 to $325 for the Signature Companion, $355 to $385 for the Signature Single, $455 to $485 for the Executive Companion and $615 to $645 for the Executive Single. Heavier care pushes those up rather than down: a fully dependent resident is quoted $270 a day in a Classic Companion and $705 in an Executive Single. SHORT STAYS COST MORE PER DAY, NOT LESS, which is the opposite of how the private home care providers on this list price duration. The Classic Companion is $340 a day for one week against $250 for two months or more, a 36% premium, and the Executive Single is $800 to $830 a day for a week against $615 to $645. A respite fortnight is priced as a premium product. WHAT THE ESTIMATE EXCLUDES, in Allium's own words: prices are before GST, cover accommodation and care charges only, and do not include medical consumables, supplies or additional services. It also states the estimate is approximate and not legally binding, and that every prospective resident gets a pre-admission screening by its nursing team that determines the actual care band. Treat the calculator as a genuine range rather than a quote. For scale, the cheapest Classic Companion day is roughly 1.4 times NTUC Health's top nursing home rate of $178 a day, and the dearest Executive Single is roughly four times it. Visits remain strictly by appointment, so a walk-in tour is not possible.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.