Founder Loh Pei Yi reflects on Project Gift of Song’s journey of celebrating life and embracing mortality through building compassionate communities at the intersection of music and terminal illness. “Only 14?” My volunteers and I exchanged small smiles as the Minister for Health Mr Ong Ye Kung tried to guess the age of our youngest […]
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两位年轻的姐妹成为父亲最后一程的看护者。
这是最适合在海边的一天。海边的天气棒极了。海风习习，让两姐妹和生病的父亲觉得很舒服。那一天，他们一起拍照，度过了宝贵的时光， 也留下了最后几张全家福。
这是Sharine 和姐姐照顾父亲期间最难忘的经历。
通过实例和灌输关怀他人的价值观培养年轻看护者。
在2018年，新加坡卫生部指出，随着老龄化加剧，到了2030年，看护责任将会加重。由于目前的已婚夫妻计划不生育或是有较少的子女，家庭单位较小，老年赡养率较高，越来越多的年轻成人成为家中年长者的看护者。老龄化研究与教育中心的一项研 究显示新加坡的基本护理理念似乎与亚洲的家庭主 义和孝道有关，而一些年轻看护者则继承了这些价值观。(Wong & Chan, 2020)
A registered nurse recounts the mutual learning experience she had working with a pair of young caregivers. Caregiving for a loved one who is approaching the end of life can be an intense and emotional experience. It takes a lot of strength and willpower to juggle one’s life while providing full care and support to
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When 28-year-old Venus Lim quit her job to care for her 61-year-old mother, Madam Theresa Lim, she faced many challenges as an only child and sole breadwinner. Assisi Hospice was able to provide practical and emotional support that helped ease her burden. Madam Theresa Lim was sold to her adoptive parents when she was eight
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Two young sisters find themselves having to care for their sole parent on his final journey. It was a perfect day to be at the seaside. The weather was great, and the breeze was soothing for the two sisters and their ailing father. That day, they had fun spending quality time together taking photographs. It
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Young caregivers can be nurtured through living examples and being taught the values of caring for others. In 2018, the Ministry of Health Singapore announced that the caregiving responsibility will grow by 2030 with the rising silver tsunami. There seems to be more young adults taking up the caregiver role for their older family members
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It always seems too early until it is too late.Advance Care Planning (ACP) is for everyone, including healthy adults, and does not need to be done only in our senior years. More often than not, it usually takes a major illness to prompt such discussions with our loved ones. However, it is always better to
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