Hospice and palliative care is a holistic approach to caring for patients going through the last stages of their lives.
It aims to meet all needs (physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual) so as to alleviate suffering and maximise quality of life for patients and their loved ones.
Awareness
The Singapore Hospice Council (SHC), in partnership with
the Lien Foundation, created the first-ever doctors’ and nurses’ palliative care fellowships and scholarships in Singapore, and launched an inaugural campaign to raise public awareness of hospice palliative care in Singapore. Of the S$2m funding provided by the Lien Foundation to the SHC, S$1.2m has been channeled to the scholarships and fellowships, while the other S$800,000 has been channeled to public awareness efforts. This has been a project to raise public awareness and attract more doctors and nurses into, hospice palliative care.
“We are very heartened by Lien Foundation’s support for the ‘cause of the dying’. About 70% of people with terminal illnesses are dying without hospice palliative care in Singapore.
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Awareness Campaign
The Singapore Hospice Council, in collaboration with the Lien Foundation has launched a major awareness campaign "Life Before Death" to educate the public on quality end of life care hospices provide.
COMING EVENTS
Singapore Palliative Care Conference 2008
29 - 30 August 2008, RELC Hotel
PAST EVENTS
Voices for Hospices 2007
Saturday, 6 October 2007 at the Victoria Theatre
Hospice Awareness Week 2007
6 - 14 October 2007
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