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HIGHLIGHTS OF INITIATIVES (2009-10)
New Initiatives
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Examine, in line with our policy of supporting 'ageing in the community as the core, institutional care as back-up', how to provide tailor-made home care services for the elderly through a more flexible and diverse mode of service delivery, and through which to encourage social enterprises and the private market to develop related services, with a view to strengthening the support to elders who age at home. |
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Provide additional subsidised day care places for frail elders. |
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Enhance the pace of increasing the provision of additional subsidised nursing home (NH) and care-and-attention (C&A) places through a novel multi-pronged approach, including increasing the ratio of NH places in existing subsidised contract residential care homes for the elderly (RCHEs), purchasing vacant places from self-financing NHs and C&A homes, utilising subsidised elderly homes with no long-term care element to provide more places with continuum of care; and, in parallel, continue to increase the provision of subsidised places through development of new subsidised contract RCHEs to meet the growing demand from elders. |
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Launch a pilot scheme to provide RCHEs with visiting pharmacist services to strengthen their capability in drug management and enhance their quality of care. |
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Extend the coverage of the District-based Scheme on Carer Training to Neighborhood Elderly Centres so as to further strengthen the support to carers of elders.
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Ongoing Initiatives |
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Upgrading subvented residential care places to provide long-term care for frail elders to meet the growing care needs of elders. |
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Continuing with outreaching efforts of elderly centres to singleton and hidden elders to help them develop social life, and strengthening the referral, counselling and support services to elders in need. |
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Helping needy elders who live in dilapidated homes improve their home conditions through the Home Environment Improvement Scheme for the Elderly. |
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Training additional Enrolled Nurses for the welfare sector. |
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