Services for Older Persons in Hong Kong 2002

V. Services for the Older Persons - Community Support Services

(Sources: Information from the briefing session of 2001 Policy Address “ Care for the Elderly” organized by Social Welfare Department)

Objectives: Community support services assist elderly people to remain living in the community for as long as possible. These services also give support to carers. With increasing diversity of community support services for the elderly, a more integrated approach to facilitate access to services is adopted

Services	Service Content	Number ofUnits
Multi-service Centre for the elderly	Provides community support service, including home help service, counseling, continuous education program, social and recreational service, community education, laundry, bathroom and canteen service for old people in the community.	35 (average membership of each centre : 1,500 elders)
Support Team for the Elderly	Provides social networking and volunteer services to the vulnerable elderly. The teams also develop volunteer services for the older persons to contribute to the society by taking part in the volunteer work.	36 (average no. of elders served for each team : 1379)
Social Centre for the Elderly	Provides neighborhood support services to the elderly by rendering social and recreational service, counseling, networking and elderly learning	214 (average membership of each centre : 547 elders)
Day Care Centre for the Elderly	Provides personal care and limited nursing care to frail elderly living in the community during the daytime.	35.5 (capacity : 40 elders for each center
Day Respite Service	Provides temporary day care service for demented or frail elderly people so that their carers can have be relieved from the longstanding care tasks.	12 Day care centres for the elderly are providing day respite service for the elderly and each center offers 3 places.
Dementia Day Care Centre	Provides day care service and training to elderly people suffering from mild to moderate grade senile dementia as well as to provide supportive and counselling service to carers to release their burden.	4 centres and each provide 20 places.
Home Help Service	Aims at assisting the elderly, the disabled, individuals and families who are incapable of looking after themselves or are unable to maintain the normal functioning of their households. It provides personal care, household management, meal delivery, escort service, child-minding ,etc	139 (average caseload : 100)
Home Care (commenced since end of 1999)	Provides home support service and nursing care to the elders suffering from moderate level of impairment.	25 (average caseload : 137)
Enhanced Home & Community Care Service (commenced since April 2001)	Provides home support service and nursing care to the elders suffered from moderate level of impairment . Its service includes: - Basic Nursing Care, such as clinical observation, blood pressure, temperature, insulin injection, supervision on medication - Special Nursing Care:, such as continence care, respiratory care, diabetes care, infection control - Personal Care, such as transfer, food feeding, bathing , hair washing, nail cutting - Maintenance rehabilitation and restorative exercise - Support Services e.g. accident prevention, disposal of medical waste - Carer support service - Day and home respite - 24-hour emergency support - Environment risk assessment and home modification - home making service - provision of meal - escorting service	18 (average caseload : 102)
Carer Support Centre for the Elderly	Provides skill-training, emotional support, self-help and mutual support group, educational programme, referral, hotline service to the carers	2
Holiday Centre for the Elderly	Provides holiday facilities in the countryside for elderly people, disabled persons and their carers.	1
Outdoor & Recreational Bus Service for the Elderly	To provide a specially equipped bus service for welfare organizations to run outdoors recreational programmes for elderly people.	4 buses (48-seater)

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