SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of individuals in South Korea registering their decision to end life-sustaining treatment has reached the 1 million milestone. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said that in the three years and six months since patients were first allowed to decide upon life-sustaining treatment, the number of submissions [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — There are places where cats that are old, sick and cannot live with people because they are too fierce to live with are gathered to be taken care of until they die. The Senior Cat Center, a cat hospice shelter in Suwon houses 15 cats, including aging cats, cats [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting this month, the government is expanding a trial run of allowing more medical institutions to join the hospice industry. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, 14 new hospice institutions providing either home or consultation hospice services were given [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans believe they have a long way to go for the culture of ‘dying well’ to be widely understood and entrenched in society, according to a new medical survey. The survey released yesterday by Seoul National University’s College of Medicine on hospice facilities and palliative care revealed over [...]