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Integrated Home Care Services

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Integrated Home Care Services (Frail Cases) [IHCS (Frail Cases)] / Enhanced Home and Community Care Services (EHCCS) are home-based community care services providing a range of care and support services to frail elderly persons aged 60 or above living in the community and who are assessed and recommended for Community Care Services or Residential Care Services under the Standardised Care Need Assessment Mechanism for Elderly Services.  The services aim at facilitating service users to continue ageing in place for as long as possible and maintaining their optimal level of functioning, while providing various kinds of support and assistance to carers.

Additional information on IHCS (Frail Cases) can be downloaded here.
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bullet Integrated Home Care Services (Ordinary Cases) [IHCS(Ordinary Cases)] provide home-based community support services to the elderly persons aged 60 or above, persons with disabilities, and individuals and families with social needs living in the community.

Additional information on IHCS (Ordinary Cases) can be downloaded here.
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        Application and Enquiry
Frail Cases:
 

Service users can approach respective Integrated Family Service Centres/Integrated Services Centres, Medical Social Service Units, District Elderly Community Centres, Neighbourhood Elderly Centres or Social Centres for the Elderly for referrals and arrangement of Standardized Care Need Assessment for Elderly Services. For further enquiry on the Standardized Care Need Assessment for Elderly Services for frail cases, please contact the Standardized Care Need Assessment Management Offices (Elderly Services) [SCNAMO(ES)s]. The list of the SCNAMO(ES)s can be downloaded here.
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Ordinary Cases:
 

Service Users can approach respective Integrated Family Service Centres/Integrated Services Centres, Medical Social Service Units , District Elderly community Centres, Neighbourhood Elderly Centres and Social Centres for the Elderly or rehabilitation services units for referrals or IHCSTs direct for application.

List of IHCSTs
Address & tel. no. of IHCSTs can be downloaded here.

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The service boundary of respective Integrated Home Care Services Teams (Ordinary Cases) can be downloaded here.

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The service boundary of respective Integrated Home Care Services Teams (Frail Cases) can be downloaded here.

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