With the efforts of Social Welfare Department, voluntary works in Hong Kong become systemic and popular. It has spearheaded a territory-wide ‘Volunteer Movement’ since 1998 to encourage more people from all sectors to take part in volunteering. As of the end of March 2017, 1.32 million individuals and 3,394 organisations have registered to join volunteer services and delivered more than 25.8 million hours of volunteer services across all kinds of community services and sources of volunteer in 2018 (Volunteer Movement, n.d.).

Voluntary services currently provided to elderly people in Hong Kong, are mainly focused on non-caregiving services. Several regular, integral, and quite organised volunteer trainings are identified such as Senior Citizen Home Safety Association, Hong Kong Jockey Club Volunteer Team, China Light Power Limited Voluntary Team, and Hong Kong Fire Services Department Volunteer Team. The volunteer services mainly focus on organising leisure and cultural activities, providing supporting work at the voluntary organisations, conducting regular home visits, organising special projects such as home cleaning and electric equipment repairs, conducting health talks and other health promotional activities (Lau & Chan, 2018).

References:

Lau, T.-l., & Chan, K.-y. (2018). Contributions of volunteers in long-term care in Hong Kong. In Sustainable Health and Long-Term Care Solutions for an Aging Population (pp. 216-236): IGI Global.

Volunteer Movement. (n.d.). Volunteer Movement. Retrieved from https://volunteermovement.hk/en/about-volunteer-movement