The private sector provides both Community and Residential Care Services in Hong Kong. For Community Care Services, NGOs operate on a self-financing or full cost-recovery basis. As of 31^st of March 2019, there were 81 self-financing Day Care Centres for the Elderly (Social Welfare Department, 2019a). Private organisations provide mostly home-based private nursing services. For Residential Care Services, NGOs and private organisations provide a total of 47,644 (63% of total residential places) non-subsidised residential places in private nursing homes as of 31^st of December 2019 (Social Welfare Department, 2019c). Currently, there is no information on the proportion and characteristics of the users of private LTC services.

References:

Social Welfare Department. (2019a). List of Self-financing Day Care Centres for the Elderly (as at March 2019). Hong Kong: Social Welfare Department, HKSAR Retrieved from https://www.swd.gov.hk/storage/asset/section/616/en/List_of_self-financing_DE_(March_2019).pdf.

Social Welfare Department. (2019c). Provision of Residential Care Services for the Elderly (Subsidised versus Non subsidised Places) as at 31.12.2019. Hong Kong: Social Welfare Department, HKSAR Retrieved from https://www.swd.gov.hk/storage/asset/section/632/en/Dec%202019/3.Provision_of_RCHEs_(Subsidised_versus_Non-subsidised_Places)(31.12.19).pdf