03.01.04. Private long-term care sector | Hong Kong SAR

03.01.04. Private long-term care sector | Hong Kong SAR

18 Aug 2022

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 31st 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 31st 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