Three Caregivers share how they navigated grief and bereavement which can be more than just an emotional experience When people think of grief, they usually picture emotional reactions such as sadness and heartbreak caused by loss. Yet, grief goes beyond emotional responses and encompasses the physical, behavioural, psychological, spiritual, and social responses to loss. Grief […]
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Nurses involved in community care providing palliative home care share a patient’s experience to highlight the importance of compassion. In the area of palliative home care, the impact of compassionate community work cannot be overstated. As senior enrolled nurses, we are privileged to witness the profound influence we have on patients and their families, even
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We hear from a new palliative care nurse about his experience on the job. I have worked as an intensive care unit nurse for seven years, and when COVID-19 hit, I was directly involved in taking care of infected patients. Working during the pandemic was the most difficult experience of my career because while I
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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)
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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The Singapore Cancer Society Psychosocial Services and Hospice Team supports the terminally ill in living out their life narratives in unique and creative ways. Death and terminal illnesses can be difficult topics to navigate. A 2014 Lien Foundation study 1 found that 45% of respondents said that not knowing how to broach such topics is
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A senior staff nurse shares encounters of courageous caregivers who kept on going even as the going got rough. I have been a senior staff nurse at Singapore Cancer Society (SCS) Hospice Care Service for nine amazing years, during which I’ve seen how wonderful caregivers are in caring for their loved ones impacted by cancer.
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Senior Resident Physician Dr Teoh Ren Shang contemplates his journey in palliative care thus far. I consider myself a newbie to palliative care even though my interest in it developed 17 years ago when I was a first-year medical officer in Medical Oncology. For the past four years, I have been a doctor working in
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In using the dignity model of palliative care, Singapore Cancer Society enables patients to have closure. Preserving one’s dignity in satisfying a person’s end-of-life care needs is often associated with describing a ‘good death’. Dignity care at Singapore Cancer Society (SCS) focuses on maintaining one’s dignity in three broad domains relating to illness-related concerns, psycho-spiritual
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