04.04.01.07. Dementia research and innovation | Hong Kong SAR

04.04.01.07. Dementia research and innovation | Hong Kong SAR

19 Aug 2022

As mentioned in the Mental Health Review Report (MHRR), innovative technology should be strengthened in the daily operation of elderly service units and provision of dementia care services. It becomes helpful to attract young professionals to join the workforce of dementia care as a long-term solution (Food and Health Bureau, 2017a, p. 190). The report also proposes a recommendation on dementia research.

  • “Recommendation 2 – Territory-wide prevalence studies of dementia should be conducted regularly to inform service planning” (Food and Health Bureau, 2017a, p. 185).

The Elderly Services Programme Plan (ESPP) indicates the need to further study the service demand for older people with mild impairments (Working Group on Elderly Services Programme Plan, 2017, p. 24). This plan also proposes a recommendation on increasing study to investigate the demand for elderly services.

  • “Recommendation 5d – Further study on the demand for respite, transitional care, and emergency placement services should be considered. Moreover, the possibility of better using non-subsidised places to provide such services should be explored” (Working Group on Elderly Services Programme Plan, 2017, p. 26).
References:

Food and Health Bureau. (2017a). Mental Health Review Report.  Retrieved from https://www.fhb.gov.hk/download/press_and_publications/otherinfo/180500_mhr/e_mhr_full_report.pdf.

Working Group on Elderly Services Programme Plan, Elderly Commission of Government of Hong Kong SAR,. (2017). Elderly Services Programme Plan. Hong Kong: Elderly Commission of Government HKSAR Retrieved from https://www.elderlycommission.gov.hk/en/download/library/ESPP_Final_Report_Eng.pdf.