‘I was very sad and felt lost’: how a support service helps bereaved people in Hong Kong cope with their loss

Chen Tse is lucky to have survived a heart attack after he passed out alone at home.Had it not been for the social workers who check in on him regularly “I would have died,” the 73-year-old former cosmetics salesman says. They were able to send him to hospital just in time.Chen is one of nearly 300 people each year who receive free help from the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals’ Be-with Bereavement Support Service, launched in 2012.When his wife of 40 years, Chang Chin-chien, died in 2018, Chen did…

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