The presence of a caregiver reassures patients and helps them recover. Caregivers also learn simple nursing tasks to help with caring for the patient at home. As Singapore ages and more people become ...

A Singapore study of family caregivers of the terminally ill suggests that self-determination is the key factor that can protect them from caregiver burden - a negative state impacting a carer's ...

Almost all community-dwelling older adults with advanced dementia in Singapore had at least one potentially burdensome intervention in their last year of life, according to a November article ...

At the Mental Health Awareness Singapore Learning Series “Healthy Mind , Better Life” Seminar organised by charity group Brahm Centre held on 25 th October, Dr. Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State, ...

Homage, a Singapore-based startup that helps connect caregivers and organizations with care recipients and their families, has raised $4.15 million as it begins to eye overseas expansion. The company ...

As Singapore becomes a super-aged society and more seniors are expected to live alone, experts and eldercare providers say ...

In Singapore, caregivers play a dominant role in decision making during consultations, which is rooted within the Asian collectivist culture as compared with the individualist culture prevalent in ...

A new campaign for Singapore's Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) by The Secret Little Agency (TSLA) aims to show caregiving in a more natural light. Through a series of three films and supplementary ...

Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, affects about 30,000 people in Singapore each year. The viral infection, which causes a blistering rash, can strike more than once. The risk of developing ...

SINGAPORE - For about a decade, Dr Chen Shiling, 44, felt like a lone voice in the wilderness.Seeing a gap in how Singapore's ...

A new study by researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School has revealed that almost all community-dwelling older adults with ...

Application of the ASCO Value Framework and ESMO Magnitude of Clinical Benefit Scale to Assess the Value of Abiraterone and Enzalutamide in Advanced Prostate Cancer High-quality end-of-life cancer ...