Palliative
Care
Palliative care is an approach to delivering care. It is the essence of good medical care, focusing on reducing pain and improving quality of life for patients and their loved ones.
Lien Collab has trained 500 doctors from 153 institutions in 10 countries
Quality of Death index prompted formulation of national strategy
Hospitable Hospice guide used to design new hospices
We believe palliative care is not only about the end-of-life.
In palliative care, we have found the soul of good medicine. In its practitioners, we have found some of the best doctors.
We work with them to integrate palliative care into specialist services and create ecosystems of care across tertiary, primary and community settings. Outside of Singapore, we continue building on our decade-long track record of starting and strengthening palliative care services in the region.
Guiding this work is our belief that the majority of people who can benefit from palliative care are not dying. Palliative care should be needs-based, not prognosis-based, and not equate the abandonment of curative treatment; both should be delivered concurrently. This minimises suffering amid sickness, for patients and their families.
Instead of the end of life, palliative care should start at the beginning – upon diagnosis of a disease, when the fight first begins.
Doctors’ Dielogues
A masterclass series comprising thought-provoking interviews with eminent doctors on death and dying.
Quality of Death Index
A series of studies comparing the provision of palliative care across different countries. Published in 2010, 2015 and 2021.
Lien Collaborative for Palliative Care
An international training programme that helps Asian countries develop palliative care capabilities and capacity.
All our palliative care work
Pillar Of Care: Foreign Workers
Enabling foreign healthcare staff, a cornerstone of Singapore’s care sector, to pursue higher education.
Air Master
Singapore’s first breathlessness ecosystem to help those suffering from chronic breathlessnesses, across 3 hospitals, community rehab, polyclinics and more.
Doctors’ Dielogues
A masterclass series comprising thought-provoking interviews with eminent doctors on death and dying.
Oasis@Outram
A next-generation day hospice featuring, among other things, an open bar and a “spalon” for manicures, massages and haircuts.
All Death Matters
The first graphic novel in Singapore that spotlights the topic of end-of-life and palliative care.
Personally Speaking
A visual arts exhibition that took an unvarnished look at the grit, grace, challenges and rewards of caring for people with special needs, mental illness and frail or ill elderly.
After Cicely 50
A commemorative project that heralds 50 years since the founding of modern hospice movement in the UK led by Dame Cicely Saunders.
Quality of Death Index
A series of studies comparing the provision of palliative care across different countries. Published in 2010, 2015 and 2021.
Singapore Bioethics Casebooks
Teaching tools for medical students and healthcare professionals to navigate medical ethics.
Both Sides Now
An arts programme that provokes end-of-life conversations among healthcare professionals, caregivers and the public.
Hospitable Hospice
A design blueprint on how Singapore can develop the next generation of in-patient hospices.
Design for Death
Design for Death was an international competition in 2013 that aimed to use design innovations to improve the way in which we say goodbye. The brief for the competition, which drew entries from designers, artists and architects across the globe, was to “re-imagine and re-design” deathcare.
Lien Collaborative for Palliative Care
An international training programme that helps Asian countries develop palliative care capabilities and capacity.
Lien Centre for Palliative Care
An academic centre that advances research and education of palliative care in Singapore and the region.
Life Before Death
A series of advocacy campaigns to raise public awareness about end-of-life issues.