Health Check Podcast: Preparing for a good death with palliative care
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Palliative care aims to help a person living with a life-threatening illness to cope not only with the physical symptoms but also with other concerns, such as those about the inevitability of death.
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Synopsis: Every first and third Wednesday of the month, The Straits Times helps you make sense of health matters that affect you.
Palliative care is in the spotlight of late, with the authorities aiming to boost support in the sector to enable more people to make the most of the time they have left. It is an approach that aims to help a person living with a life-threatening illness to cope not only with the physical symptoms, but also other concerns, such as those about the inevitability of death.
In this episode, ST senior health correspondent Joyce Teo hosts Clinical Associate Professor Alethea Yee, a senior consultant from the Division of Supportive & Palliative Care at the National Cancer Centre Singapore. She was the head of the division before she was seconded to Assisi Hospice to be its clinical director in 2018. Dr Yee is also the deputy head of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Supportive & Palliative Care Centre as well as the education director of the Lien Centre for Palliative Care at Duke-NUS.
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