04. Dementia Policy Context | Hong Kong SAR

04. Dementia Policy Context | Hong Kong SAR

18 Aug 2022

In Hong Kong, the Government has not set out any dementia-specific policy to support. Nevertheless, expert groups of mental health and elderly service departments have conducted reviews on the existing health, social and long-term care strategies for older people with dementia. In the light of population ageing, there will be increasing economic and social burden due to dementia in the coming decades. Looking ahead, different stakeholders have suggested that the Government should formulate a long-term dementia care policy and service provision plan. The Mental Health Review Report and the Elderly Service Programme Plan are additional two documents which are mainly referred to, in this chapter.