As part of our Dandelion Event series, this year, HCA Hospice Care (HCA) is organising ‘The Vertical Challenge 2020’ to raise $300,000. This amount will fund 1,000 home visits to provide care and comfort to patients with life-limiting illnesses.
The Vertical Challenge 2020 offers two categories of participation –
Challenge | Competitive |
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Open to individuals, families and friends | Open to individuals, groups and corporate teams |
50m, 100m, 200m vertical gain | 250m, 500m, 1000m, 2020m vertical gain |
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Elevation Gain to Floors Conversion (rounded up, based on 2.8m per floor on average)
Elevation Gain | 50m | 100m | 200m | 250m | 500m | 1000m | 2020m |
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Floors Conversion | about 18 floors |
about 36 floors |
about 72 floors |
about 90 floors |
about 179 floors |
about 358 floors |
about 722 floors |
All funds raised will be directed to HCA to support our palliative and hospice services which are provided free of charge to over 3,000 patients annually. This enables our beneficiaries to spend their last days with dignity at home in the presence of their loved ones.
Together we can create more good days for our patients as they embrace the last leg of their life journey. Learn more about HCA here: www.hca.org.sg.
Transferring is just one of the myriad of tasks that fill Mdm Ong’s daily schedule. As the main caregiver to HCA Star PALS patient Toh Wee Yang, 20, Mdm Ong tirelessly juggles all household responsibilities. It is a marathon of love she had embarked on when Wee Yang was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) at just seven years old.
While the thought of the future weighs heavily on Mdm Ong, the support the family has received from the HCA Star PALS team has been invaluable. “The team has given me a lot of reassurance and emotional support,” she says.
Journey with us to bring comfort to life and add life to days.
There was a heartbreaking finality at the moment, as Mdm Niranjan stroked her son’s face tenderly, while he was lying on the hospital bed. Stricken by cancer herself, her son’s illness was yet another cruel blow to her. Due to her deteriorating condition, her last wish was to visit her ailing son before her own admission into an inpatient hospice.
She was accompanied by her daughter and a HCA Senior Palliative Care Nurse to visit her son in the hospital. “I was very worried before coming here. I had not seen him for two weeks. Now I am very happy I get to see him before I go,” she shared after the visit.
Journey with us to bring comfort to life and add life to days.