Jonathan Chua

Advance Care Planning for Future Health Crises Advance Care Planning (ACP) and Advance Medical Directive (AMD) are two tools that you can use to indicate your preferences for medical care for future contingencies, when you are not able to make decisions for yourself. These directives guide healthcare professionals and your loved ones when making decisions on your behalf, and more importantly, it relieves loved ones of the burden of not knowing what you would have wanted. “By indicating your preferences in advance, you can ensure that you will get the medical care you desire during a future medical crisis,” says Ms Sumytra Menon, Senior Assistant Director, Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). The ACP process consists of a series of wide-ranging discussions with loved ones you have selected and doctors and facilitated by a trained ACP facilitator on your future health and personal care preferences. At the end of the...

Healthcare in Singapore THE LASTING POWER OF ATTORNEY (LPA)​allows you to legally appoint one or individuals to make decisions on your behalf if you are mentally incapacitated A lasting power of attorney (LPA) is a type of advance directive that allows you to legally appoint one or more individuals to make decisions and act on your behalf if you are mentally incapacitated. This legal document is made under the Mental Capacity Act in Singapore. Anyone who is 21 years old and above, and has the mental capacity to make an LPA, is eligible to make one. The legal term for the person who makes the LPA is a donor and the person who is appointed is known as the donee. A donor can appoint one or more donees to act in one or both of the following areas: Personal welfare and healthcare Property and affairs Your donee should be at least 21 years old and someone who you believe is trustworthy, reliable and competent to make decisions for you. “The LPA only kicks in when the donor loses capacity to ...

His hospital bill: $1.2 million This is not what someone paid for a home. Rather it is the medical bill businessman Danny Foo accumulated for the 14 months he was in a vegetative state. The 48-year-old partner of Quayside Group died last Tuesday. He had collapsed and fallen into a coma in July last year, two weeks after he first sought treatment for an infected leg at a private hospital. "Fortunately, Danny had the foresight to buy insurance early. We have only to pay 10 per cent of the bill, but $120,000 is still a pretty huge amount for the family to pay," Mr Foo's elder brother Steven, 49, told The New Paper. source

Ignite Wealth Group Dinner at Fullerton Hotel David Sam is feeling blessed with Jonathan Chua and 3 others A very fun night with our awards winning Financial Consultants and Managers. Recognition of hardwork in 2021! Job well done Ignite Wealth Group ! read more

A group of representatives representing SG Alliance Pte Ltd ‘iGniters’ are team players who are always progressing and upskilling to empower clients with the latest knowledge, tools and resources in financial planning. This team is galvanised and grounded in the perspective that becoming successful at anything worth striving for is simply about never giving up. While the team values the prize of materialistic wealth, it strives for the greater goal of inner wealth, in each consultant’s own life journey and also for their clients. Over and above the right financial tools and knowledge, each team member is constantly advancing in the finer aspects of character development and personal growth built on the group’s core values of integrity, commitment and resilience. Established in 2021, SG Alliance is a financial advisory firm spearheaded by owner-directors Pang Kong Bin and Caster Ong. Born into working-class households in 1950s’ Singapore, both men started work life early, helping their...