By Dan Tan | Senior Marketing Executive
One of the most emotional and difficult challenges we face in life is the loss of a loved one. We know it can feel impossible to overcome these emotions and everyone reacts differently to the devasting impact during the grieving process. Therefore, it’s important that a professional person with the experience and knowledge about palliative care explains what is happening and how to navigate this difficult time.
Last year Hong Kong Cancer Fund helped a single mother of three children. Her eldest daughter was 19 years old when she was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Tragically, she was told that her daughter would be requiring palliative care. Our team helped the whole family to make her daughter’s life easier and her death more meaningful.
We provide individual and family counselling for all ages and facilitate group sessions to support and share your experience with others in similar circumstances. Our bereavement group and monthly peer-support programmes provide help for as long as it takes a family to heal.
Every year the HKCF provides nearly 3,000 counselling sessions with 35 programmes reaching 350 families who have been in urgent need of palliative and end of life care.
We receive no funding from the Government or the Community Chest and we rely on friends like you who share our vision and commitment so we can offer free professional services in this extremely challenging environment.
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