Social Welfare Department - District Elderly Community Centre (DECC)

District Elderly Community Centre (DECC) is a type of community support services at district level to enable elderly persons to remain in the community and to lead a healthy, respectful and dignified life. DECCs also collaborate with other service units in the district and cooperate to build a caring community with better use of community resources.

Additional information of DECCs can be downloaded here.
(Acrobat Document) (MSWord Document)

Leaflet of District Elderly Community Centre

List of DECCs
Address & telephone no. of DECCs can be downloaded here.
(Acrobat Document) (MSExcel Document)

With effect from April 2015, apart from handling direct applications for long term care services and /or counselling service for elderly persons living in the community, DECC and Neighbourhood Elderly Centre (NEC) also receive referrals from Integrated Family Service Centre/Integrated Services Centre and Medical Social Services Unit etc. for elderly persons in need of the above two services. The service areas of respective DECCs and NECs for the above-mentioned services can be downloaded here.

District	Download
Central Western, Southern & Islands	(Acrobat Document)	(MSExcel Document)
Eastern & Wan Chai	(Acrobat Document)	(MSExcel Document)
Kwun Tong	(Acrobat Document)	(MSExcel Document)
Wong Tai Sin & Sai Kung	(Acrobat Document)	(MSExcel Document)
Kowloon City & Yau Tsim Mong	(Acrobat Document)	(MSExcel Document)
Sham Shui Po	(Acrobat Document)	(MSExcel Document)
Sha Tin	(Acrobat Document)	(MSExcel Document)
Tai Po & North	(Acrobat Document)	(MSExcel Document)
Yuen Long	(Acrobat Document)	(MSExcel Document)
Tsuen Wan & Kwai Tsing	(Acrobat Document)	(MSExcel Document)
Tuen Mun	(Acrobat Document)	(MSExcel Document)