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I need someone to be there for me

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I feel very lonely

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I need to feel like i can survive daily

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Do i have enough for daily needs?

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I need somebody to depend on

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Where is my family?

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I need to feel like i still can contribute to society

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I need hope in my life

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Am i going to give up on life?

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I need to get better soon

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Can i get better?

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I need to ensure that no matter what I still can make choices

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Do i have a choice?

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I need to be mobile and move around easily

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Am i able to go around?

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I need to be able to break out of the shell I put myself in

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I need to be able to not receive help from others

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Do i have the means to do something out of my comfort zone?

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I need to ensure that this environment is good for me to prosper.

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Is this environment convenient for me?

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I need to ensure my medical needs are met

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Am i able to ensure my medical needs?

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No I never (reach out for help)

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I feel happy when if i got friends that care for me.

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The other day i fell and my back hurts a lot. I want go clinic also difficult

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I actually don't want to stay alone but because my children got no space at their home i no choice.

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Because i shy also to meet people so a bit difficult

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neighbours all door close. Cannot talk to them also.

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i cannot walk a lot i old already i cannot do a lot of things now compared to before. Now waiting to die only.

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i become stress because it's difficult for me to do especially i old already and cannot work also

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My rent also i find difficult to pay what more food?

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My husband pass away already also

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Nose also never see. 3 years already. I got 5 kids. 1st and 2nd boys the rest girls.

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i cannot depend on anyone that much

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ill mannered people are noisy , but does not care much just ignore

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At this age, he cant contribute to the community much

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alone as his wife has passed for 4 years alr

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goes downstairs to chat with people as it tends to get lonely.

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Neighbour isnt good. Always bicker over a small thing.

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As he gets older, walking pace slows down

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When young, always carry stocks etc

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There’s an old folks home downstairs but I don’t like it and refuse to go

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I’d rather be lonely alone

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Living in Singapore, don’t have money cannot, need to spend money everyday

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I can’t walk about so I just sleep and eat

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I feel lonely every day

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Something fell on my head and injured my head (work)

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I worked all kinds of jobs (constructions) until 60 years old till I had an injury on my head during work

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No I don’t , I only use my phone and sleep, already old so what can I do

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I don’t know but they have their own families

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I’m happy every day, I tend not to think so much, already this old, if have food to eat then eat, if I don’t then I just sleep, my friends are also very old. What is there to be happy?

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I’m old already, only left a few years left so never mind

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I eat a lot of medicine and go to sleep. If my condition worsens, I call the ambulance

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I just sleep, I just live day by day, I’m already 70+ y/o

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I went for operation on my head and legs for 4-5 times

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Yes I do but we don’t have any interactions with each other, one daughter is married and stays in the US but never returns back to visit, I divorced with my wife, I don’t know where my eldest child lives at

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Nothing, because I can’t walk due to my legs

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Sometimes i go the government study, pay 500, they give 3 type of courses,

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No because no invitation

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If my children help me then i no need to worry.

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If not always think how to pay this money this and that.

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How do you cope with this feeling of loneliness? Like that lah. I don't know.

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When do you feel the most lonely? Everyday. Sometimes i think and worry.

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They also never call since last month like that. They say work.

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I cannot stay there also because my son got wife’s family there

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Nobody help me. Financial problems.

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i school attendant i do housework also. That's all. Nowadays nothing can do cause old already ah.

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No. only this one person only. She will come and give me the letter. Ask to go.

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All the friends all left already

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I got diabetes, high blood pressure, liver problem, heart problem now they say ok. I got insulin ah. Injected everyday. I do myself got nobody.

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Sometime i go walk back pain. The leg cramp. That's why i cannot go down.

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Then i stay in the hospital about 7 days. From that i cannot do anything.

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At first got one friend downstairs help me but she removed already.

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I cannot lift up my back. So i call my ambulance and then i call my sister.

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Suddenly it came the back pain. Because that time i follow my friend carry heavy things and mine also i have to carry also.

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sometimes i got bus fare, if i don't have i cancel my appointment

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even when i want to go hospital i got nobody help me. I must go myself lah.

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I got diabetes, everything got. So i have to take medicine.

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Sometimes in the morning i cannot get up at all

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I got 2 sisters and 1 younger brother and elderly just passed away. So i got no. only 2 son only lah. So they support themselves only. They never support me anything.

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I have relatives. It's no point. They never help. Even my own son also never help me.

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Sometimes, downstairs like chinese new year like that they will give. Another person they giving also sometimes

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nobody come and help

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Living alone in this apartment.