The retired nurse was the founder of the non-profit charities—Heart to Heart Service and the Home for the Aged Sick, one of the first homes for the aged sick in Singapore.
In 1969, aged 61, Ho bought a two-storey detached house in Richards Avenue with her savings, and turned it into the Man Fut Tong Old Peoples Homee for aged sick and single elderly women.
On seeing her dedication and commitment in helping the poor and sick, Ursula bought her a 0.6-hectare piece of land at Jalan Payoh Lai in 1965, so that Hsu could open the first home for the aged sick in Singapore.
In fact, the only way to keep premiums down in a system that delivers health care through market based insurance is to make sure the insured pool is large enough for the healthy young to effectively absorb the cost of caring for the aged sick.
Teresa Hsu Chih (7 July 1898 – 7 December 2011), or commonly known as Teresa Hsu (; pinyin: Xǔ Zhe) was a Chinese-born Singaporean social worker, known affectionately as "Singapore's Mother Teresa", in recognition for her active lifelong devotion in helping the aged sick and destitutes locally.
"We are crossing a line — from being a society that cares for those who are aging and sick to a society that kills those whose suffering we can no longer tolerate," José H. Gomez, the Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles, said in a statement Wednesday.
Pinnacle soon found, however, that executives were just as eager to find care for aging or sick relatives.
You're not the first person in the world who is taking care of an aging parent, sick partner, or a child with special needs.
