Community Rehabilitation Day Centre

Description

To provide both professional rehabilitation training service and psychosocial rehabilitation services to discharged patients, enhancing the patients' physical functioning and self-maintenance abilities; strengthening their domestic living and community living skills; helping them restructure a healthy lifestyle and productive life roles so as to facilitate their integration into the community. Community Rehabilitation Day Centre also provides day respite care service for discharged patients, training programmes and educational courses for their family members / carers to strengthen their caring capacities and relieve their pressure so as to improve their quality of living.

Target Participants

• Rehabilitation Training Service
  Discharged patients who are:
  - aged 15 and above; and
  - suffering from stroke, neurological or physical impairments, or other physical illnesses affecting their functional performance and in need of continuous rehabilitation training.
• Day Care Service for Severely Disabled Persons
  -Severely mentally handicapped / severely physically persons aged between 15 and 59.
• Day Respite Service
  -Discharged patients as stipulated above.
• Carer Support Service
  -Family members / carers of discharged patients as stipulated above.

Scope of Services

• Time-defined centre-based individual or group rehabilitation training programmes;
• Home-based training service;
• Training programmes / educational courses / workshops for the family members / carers;
• Supportive services including the organization of mutual support groups for discharged patients, the launching of public education programmes and the provision of consultation services to support groups and rehabilitation units in the community;
• Day respite care service; and
• Day care service for severely disabled persons.

Application Procedure

• Rehabilitation Training Service
  -Must be referred by medical officers / occupational therapists / physiotherapists of the Hospital Authority through the SWD approved standardized referral system.
• Day Care Service for Severely Disabled Persons
  -Referred by social worker.
• Day Respite Care Service
  -Referred by social worker; or
  -Approach the centre for direct application for the service
• Carer Support Service
  -Referred by social worker/medical staff; or
  -Approach the centre for direct application for the service.
• The application is free of charge

Fees and Charges

Service charges are based on different nature of services and activities provided.

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