Legal tools such as the Advance Medical Directive, Lasting Power of Attorney and wills are very useful.

But to really increase the take-up rate among citizens, especially seniors and the less able, the Government should go further by setting up a one-stop service centre that will allow people to set all these up at one go.

A major obstacle to greater buy-in for such tools is the need to have professionals such as a lawyer or doctor to validate, undersign and witness a person's application, and this can be costly.

The proposed one-stop service centre should be able to address this as the centre could set up a tender system to ensure such professional fees are set at a very competitive price to help citizens.

Lai Kin Guan