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PILOT SCHEME ON MULTI-DISCIPLINARY OUTREACHING SUPPORT TEAMS FOR THE ELDERLY
SWD launched a four-year Pilot Scheme on Multi-disciplinary Outreaching Support Teams for the Elderly (MOSTE) in mid-February 2019. Under MOSTE, district-based professional teams, comprising social workers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists, were set up to provide free outreach services for the residents in private Residential Care Homes for the Elderly (RCHEs), so as to address their social and rehabilitation needs. Apart from serving the residents in private RCHEs, MOSTE also provided speech therapy service for residents of contract homes (including DCUs attached to contract homes) and those of self-financing RCHEs/nursing homes with swallowing difficulties or speech impairment.
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