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S1E150: Palliative care is for living, not just dying: Talk about it sooner
Your guide to a kinder end-of-life journey in the ICU.
Synopsis: Every first Wednesday of the month, The Straits Times helps you make sense of health matters that affect you.
Tan Tock Seng Hospital and National University Hospital recently launched a new initiative called A Kinder ICU that is supported by a 3.93 million grant from the Lien Foundation. The aim is to integrate palliative care into standard ICU treatment.
In this episode, Joyce Teo finds out more about the initiative and the nature of palliative care from her two guests. They discuss how palliative care has evolved and how it…
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