Tackling ageing issues

September 28, 2009 – The Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Graduate Medical School is expanding its research into ageing issues, according to its dean Ranga Krishnan, as reported in "My Paper". The research areas include the impact of an ageing population on healthcare, and how healthcare services can be better provided to elderly patients. There is also another area of study – palliative care, which is patient care and treatment that can reduce the severity of disease symptoms. The article in the paper added that three of the five research areas that the school focuses on – neuroscience, cancer and heart diseases – cover ageing-related issues. Last year, the school worked with Lien Foundation to set up the Lien Centre for Palliative Care for such research. In attendance at the official opening was Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (pictured here).