Diverse subsidized residential care services serve the elderly with various needs. The elderly or their relatives can apply for the services in related departments or organizations.
For further enquiries, please contact our duty social workers, we would render all possible assistance.
Enhanced Bought Place Scheme
The Social Welfare Department(SWD) has purchased places from private homes for the elderly under the Enhanced Bought Place Scheme (EBPS) since 1998, with a view to upgrading the service standard of these homes through enhanced service requirements in terms of staffing and space standard. This also helps to increase the supply of subsidised places so as to reduce elders' waiting time for subsidised care-and-attention places.
Monthly Fee
- $1,763 (EA1)
- $1,656 (EA2)
Please browse the following link for up-to-date information of the EBPS:
https://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_elderly/sub_residentia/id_enhancedbo/
Residential Care Service Voucher Scheme for the Elderly
The Residential Care Service Voucher (RCSV) Scheme for the Elderly (the Scheme), adopting the "money-following-the-user" principle, provides an additional choice for elderly persons in need of residential care services and waitlisted for care-and-attention (C&A) places on the Central Waiting List (CWL).
Starting from 2022-23, the Government increased the number of RCSVs to 4,000 so as to benefit more elderly persons.
Voucher Value
he voucher value is $16,161 (with effect from 1.4.2023) per month.
Please browse the following link for up-to-date information of the Pilot Scheme:
https://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_elderly/sub_residentia/id_psrcsv/
Pilot Scheme on Support for Elderly Persons Discharged from Public Hospitals after Treatment
A three-year “Pilot Scheme on Support for Elderly Persons Discharged from Public Hospitals after Treatment” (the Pilot Scheme) under the Community Care Fund (CCF) was rolled out in February 2018. The Pilot Scheme aims at supporting elderly persons just discharged from public hospitals who are in need of transitional care and support, by providing them with transitional community care and support and/or residential care services. It enables them to continue ageing-in-place in a familiar community and prevents their premature long-term institutionalisation in residential care homes for the elderly. Upon its completion at the end of January 2021, the Pilot Scheme has been extended for 32 months up to the end of September 2023. The Pilot Scheme is implemented under a new mode of operation starting from October 2021 and continues to be administered by the Social Welfare Department (SWD).
Service Arrangement and Fee-charging
The Transitional Care Teams will explain the content and details of the Extended Pilot Scheme to elderly persons and/or their family members, help elderly persons interested in the Extended Pilot Scheme process and vet their applications, and arrange transitional community care and support and/or residential care services for no more than four months in general.
Participants of the Extended Pilot Scheme will be charged according to the service fees. Elderly persons are required to settle the relevant service charges in accordance with the requirements and arrangements of the Transitional Care Teams.
Please browse the following link for up-to-date service Arrangement and fee-charging of the Pilot Scheme:
https://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_supportser/sub_tcs/#download
Third Phase of the Pilot Scheme on Community Care Service Voucher for the Elderly
SWD has launched the Third Phase of the Pilot Scheme on Community Care Service Voucher for the Elderly in October 2020. The eligible elderly persons may use Community Care Service Voucher to choose community care services (CCS) that suit their individual needs to support their ageing in place under the 'money-following-the-user' mode.
Eligibility
Eligible participants are the elderly persons who have been assessed by SWD’s Standardised Care Need Assessment Mechanism for Elderly Services to have impairment at moderate or severe level and are waitlisting for subsidised CCS and/or residential care services (RCS) on the Central Waiting List (CWL) for Subsidised Long Term Care (LTC) Services without any kind of RCS or subsidised CCS being received.
Voucher Values
Elderly persons may choose any voucher value in-between the ceiling and floor voucher values (both values inclusive) to purchase service packages according to their needs (The ceiling and floor monthly voucher values for 2022-23 are $10,070 and $4,210 respectively). The voucher values will be adjusted annually mainly based on the Composite Consumer Price Index (CCPI).
Co-payment Arrangement
There are six categories of co-payment. Elderly persons are required to pay for the co-payment amount according to the rate of 5%, 8%, 12%, 16%, 25% or 40% of the service package value of voucher while the government will pay for the remaining amount of the service package value. Under the “affordable users pay” principle, the less that the elderly person can afford, the more the Government subsidises.
Please browse the following link for up-to-date information of the Pilot Scheme:
https://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_elderly/sub_csselderly/id_psccsv/