Singer Kit Chan recently sat down for a chat with actress Rui En and opened up about being a caregiver to her late mother, who had battled dementia. Chan’s mum passed away in May this year.
“The only way [is to] enter their world. Because at one point, I understood how lonely it must [have been] for my mum. We are in this world, but after a while she [was in] her own world,” said Chan, 53.
Realising that her mum felt ‘trapped’, Chan decided to change how she communicated with her.
“Thanks to the fact that I was trained in drama, and the fact that I like to dream, I was the first one to really start to go into her world and I would tell her ‘tell me about it’.”
“I would just pretend that I’m in [her] world. For example if she’s saying there’s this person who’s always harass