Community Care and Support Services for the Elderly

Service Highlights

We provide professional home care services and community support services to facilitate elders to live in the community of their choice, while the carers are supported to perform their caring role.

Offer flexible and diversified services to support elders during the pandemic	Promote holistic wellbeing of elders and maintain an age-friendly community through community partnership
Raise the awareness of Advance Care Planning among the community and prepare for their end of lives	Assist elders and carers to keep social connection and mobility through the use of information technology

Offer Flexible and Diversified Services to Support Elders during the Pandemic

The elders have been among the most affected groups under the pandemic. Our Society offered support to elders in need, such as distributing materials donated by enterprises, escorting elders to get vaccinated and do nucleic acid testing, delivering test kits and arranging medical staff to offer home based vaccination through joining the "Home Vaccination Programme”. Our staff taught elders and carers how to carry out rapid tests, identify symptoms and contact relevant organisations for assistance. Our therapists also provided online training for elders according to their needs, hoping to maintain their daily functionality. We organised “Pandemic Special Home Care Team” Project which provided necessary services for the elders who were infected but lacked support. Through our "Enhancement of Quality of Life" programme, we supported the users of home care services to purchase supplies or services to improve their quality of life.

Chow Tai Fook’s volunteer team donated anti-pandemic supplies and daily necessities to frail elders living alone in Peng Chau

Elders and families in the community were connected as volunteers cared for elders and carers

The "In Love We Walk" programme sponsored by Hang Seng Bank provided anti-pandemic supplies to the frail elders living alone

Promote Holistic Wellbeing of Elders and Maintain an Age-friendly Community through Community Partnership

Kowloon City Centre for Active Ageing values holistic wellbeing of elders through six dimensions including physical, psychological, social, spiritual, cognitive and environmental aspects. Through the Jockey Club Community eHealth Care Project, our centre continued to enhance elders’ holistic wellbeing during the pandemic by providing both online and onsite services to elders. Our centre has actively collaborated with community partners. In addition to a wide range of health workshops through medical-social collaboration, with support of different corporates, our centre has also organised mutual support groups and trainings for carers to co-create a caring and age-friendly community. Our centre has completed the Jockey Club "Home Safety and Living Improvement Project", which helped raise elders’ awareness on home safety and improve their living environment. The centre will continue to offer comprehensive supporting services to facilitate our elders to pursue a happy and healthy life.

To promote elders physio-psychological health through the Jockey Club Community eHealth Care Project

Organised various activities to foster social development of the elders

Improving the elders’s physical health through medical-social collaboration

Enhancing home safety through the Jockey Club "Home Safety and Living Improvement Project"

Raise the Awareness of Advance Care Planning among the Community and Prepare for Their End of Lives

During the year, supported by Vera Ruttonjee Desai Charitable Fund, the Advance Care Planning Project has assisted eligible elders to formulate advance care plan, facilitated family’s communication and subsidised needy elders to sign advance directives, wills, enduring powers of attorney and receive funeral consultation. The Project has also facilitated and subsidised elders to complete late life wishes, e.g. making life story books, re-visiting memorable places. To raise public’s understanding on advance care planning, the Project has also organised volunteer training, careline and various community educational programmes such as talks, Life and Death Conversation Workshop, visits and outreaching booths.

Social workers and volunteers helped complete an elder’s late life wish of visiting Tsing Yi Promenade

“Life-and-death” Book Sharing Session: encouraged participants to reflect on death and plan for the future

Assist Elders and Carers to Keep Social Connection and Mobility through the Use of Information Technology

Our staff assisted elders and their carers to keep social connection with the use of information technology, including tablets and mobile phones. Through the “Lifestyle Reactivation Project: Jockey Club Smart Homecare Solution” funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club, elders, carers, and our staff were able to monitor the participants’ health condition more effectively using home based tele-health devices as well as by uploading health related data to the system. Elders were able to benefit from the tele-rehabilitation programme through physiotherapy exercises and cognitive exercises as well as receive updated social information via the online channel of the Project. We also supported carers to strengthen their bonding with their elderly family members and monitor their health via carer support and reconnection platform.