Carer Support
Overview
SWD provides various kinds of subvented community care and support services to persons with disabilities/persons in mental recovery and their carers, including centre-based services, home-based services and other support services. To enhance support for carers, SWD will roll out a number of measures from 2023, including setting up a Designated Carer Hotline and Information Gateway for Carers, regularising the "Pilot Scheme on Living Allowance for Low-income Carers of Persons with Disabilities", launching a three-year Territory-Wide Publicity Campaign and "Support for Carers Project".
Designated Hotline for Carer Support 182 183
The 24-hour Designated Hotline for Carer Support 182 183 is manned by professional social workers, providing up-to-date information on community support resources, instant consultation and counselling, outreaching, emergency support and referral services etc. For details, please click here.
Information Gateway for Carers
The Information Gateway for Carers aims to raise awareness of carers about the available resources and to encourage them to seek help whenever needed. It covers information on services provided for elderly persons and persons with disabilities, caring skills, community activities and resources for carers, etc. For details, please click here.
Living Allowance for Low-income Carers of Persons with Disabilities
Launching the Territory-Wide Publicity Campaign
To raise public awareness of the importance and needs of carers, promote mutual assistance in the community and cultivate a carer-friendly environment, SWD has launched a three-year territory-wide publicity campaign, namely "Care the Carers Campaign", from 2023-24. The campaign includes production of Television and Radio Announcements in the Public Interest, production of publicity materials, organising signature events and putting advertisements on public transports, etc. District Social Welfare Offices of SWD will take account of district characteristics and collaborate with NGOs providing elderly and rehabilitation services and local organisations to organise carer-centric programmes and public education activities to jointly promote carer support and offer practical assistance to carers.
| Item / Name | Image / Link / Download File |
|---|---|
| Poster |  |
| TV Announcements in the Public Interest | Link |
| TV Announcements in the Public Interest (Web accessible version) | Link |
| Video on Introduction to the Campaign (Chinese Version Only) | Link |
| "Care the Carers Campaign" Kick-off Ceremony Highlight Video | Link |
| Video on the story of a carer of persons in mental recovery | Link |
| Video 1 on the story of a carer of persons with disabilities | Link |
| Video 2 on the story of a carer of persons with disabilities | Link |
Support for Carers Project
Since October 2018, SWD launched the "Support for Carers Project" which aims to provide basic training to frontline property management personnel, so as to equip them with knowledge on how to identify and assist needy elderly persons and carers, and provide them with information on welfare services in the community, so that they may make use of the community resources when necessary to support ageing in place for elderly persons. SWD will extend the Project for three years starting from October 2023 and expand its scope to cover persons with disabilities.
| Item / Name | Link |
|---|---|
| Video on Introduction to the Project (Chinese Version Only) | Link |
Services Supporting the Carers Leaflet
Additional information of Services Supporting the Carers can be downloaded here:
