Palliative Care Service Development Experience in Singapore and Its Implications for China

Abstract

Palliative care is one of the effective means to protect the rights of good death and improve the quality of life in end-stage patients. Palliative care in Singapore is developing rapidly and a comprehensive palliative service system has been gradually established, ranking in the top of Asia in the latest national quality of death ranking. This paper proposes that the social awareness, education and training of palliative care should be strengthened, the power of charities and NGOs should be utilized, the existing palliative care carrying capacity should be improved, palliative care related system and legal protection should be established in China, by sorting out the current situation of hospice care, the practical experience in public education, personnel training, charitable support, related policies and legal protection in Singapore, in order to achieve the hospice needs of end-stage patients.

Keywords

• hospice and palliative care nursing|health care reform|national health system|advance medical directive|advance care planning|singapore