The Spirituality of Compassion: A Public Health Response to Ageing and End-of-Life Care

Recent new attention to spirituality in recent years has shown an important step forward in people-centered care for the elderly. But if we do not obey the spiritual living environment these benefits will be of limited value. In modern society, many elderly people are in an environment indifferent to spiritual beliefs and customs. Medical institutions are focused on the physical needs of professional evaluation, mainly concerned with service costs. Rather than directly shaping the status of elderly people in modern society, the national social policy that leads medical services is strongly influenced by the global neo-liberal economic policy characterized by individualism, competition and greed. In order to cultivate robust and viable spirituality at the individual level, a compassionate social policy is needed to support interdependence within the community and among the communities.

Also, you do not have to pay much attention to emergency medical hospitals as the center of our healthcare system, you need to develop a more fully integrated clinical care network from prevention and care to hospice care and dignity. Our health care system is the most effective way to reduce the cost of health care is to keep patients healthy, manage chronic diseases, and ultimately cure them. They are challenging a system that pursues better results for patients and creates better value for medical systems. Without new ideas and willingness to try new ways, we will not develop our payment and delivery system in a sustainable way, and will not create more competition and choices.

The Ministry of Health of Singapore has full responsibility to ensure that health care, policy direction setting, public health care system management, and medical quality and health system can respond reliably to residents' needs. That scope is included: needs assessment, service planning, staff planning, system governance and funding, provider pricing, cost control and health information technology. The Ministry of Health regulates medical systems through laws and law enforcement agencies. The core regulatory functions include obtaining approval from medical institutions based on private hospital and clinic laws, and conducting periodic inspections and audits. Advertisements can be monitored and analyzed by potential problems and lead to compliance audits and ultimate prosecutions.

Catholic health care is concerned with all people, body, mind and spirit. We listen, explain, and act with thoughtfulness. "Because Catholic medical institutions are a healing and caring community, the care provided will also include physical, psychological, social, and human spiritual aspects ... Therefore, Catholic health care is , Extending to the spiritual nature of human beings ... pastoral care is an element of Catholic health care for idyllic needs often understood deeply during illness. "(Part 2: pastoral and spiritual responsibility of Catholic health, introduction)