Hong Kong has a universal public long-term care system mainly implemented by the Social Welfare Department and various NGOs. Long-term care services cover both community and residential care for older adults with proven needs under a standardised care need assessment mechanism. Facing the ageing population, the Government aims to promote “ageing-in-place” that encourages older adults to age at home rather than being institutionalised by strengthening its provision of community care services in the recent years. However, the LTC system is being criticised for its long waiting time for subsidised services, the unbalance of resources for residential over community care, and the heavy reliance on the Government’s finance. Partly owing to the insufficient capacity of the community care, many older adults have chosen to enter residential care homes for their late life, resulting in high institutionalisation rate compared with other developed countries.