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- Overview on Residential Care Services for Elders


Overview of Residential Care Services for the Elderly
 
 
Total number of places as at 31.3.2023
 
Subsidised places in subvented homes, self-financing homes and contract homes
Subsidised places under Enhanced Bought Place Scheme
Non-subsidised places in non-profit-making self-financing homes/ contract homes
Total
Hostels for the elderly
-
-
 
-
-
Homes for the Aged
9
-
414
 
423
 
Care and Attention Homes for the Elderly
   15 551(Note 1)
11 261 
3 191
30 003
Nursing Homes
      4 652(Note 2)
-
 
1 918(Note 3)
 6 570
Total
20 212
11 261
5 523
36 996
 

Note 1: Including care-and-attention places providing a continuum-of-care.  Of them,
             there is a total of 1 622 places of agency quota in 73 residential care homes for
             the elderly operated by 29 non-governmental organizations.
Note 2: Including nursing home places under the Nursing Home Place Purchase 
             Scheme
Note 3: Including places provided by self-financing nursing homes purely under the 
             registration regime administered by the Department of Health

 

  You may click the following icons to have an overview of residential care services or download them:
 
(a) Provision of Residential Care Services for the Elderly (Subsidised versus Non-subsidised Places) (Pie Chart)
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(b) Provision of Residential Care Services for the Elderly (Non-governmental Organisations versus Private Sectors) (Pie Chart)
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(c) Number of Homes providing Residential Care Services for the Elderly (by district)
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(d) Capacity of Subsidised Residential Services for the Elderly (by district)
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(e)

Capacity of Non-subsidised Residential Services for Elderly (by district)
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(f)

Statistics on 'Waiting list for subsidised residential care services for the elderly', 'Waiting time for residential care services' and 'Turn for placement offer for cases applying for residential care services'
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