The HKADA mainly provides four types of services (Hong Kong Alzheimer’s Disease Association, 2020b):

1. Early Detection Service, which provides comprehensive assessments to speed up the diagnostic process.
2. Day Centres, which aim at maintaining clients’ existing functions and at delaying further cognitive deterioration as well as alleviating caregivers’ stress by using non-pharmacological therapies as well as different structured and suitable training.
3. In Home Service. In order to maintain clients’ abilities and daily functioning and to reduce the effects of the disease to the minimum, this service will design comprehensive care plans and implement home-based training by prescribing different therapeutic interventions, as well as render professional advices for caregivers on home care management and behavioral management techniques.
4. The Institute of Alzheimer’s Education (IAE) aims at providing training and educational courses for medical and social service practitioners, caregivers, and general public, in order to raise understanding of dementia and to build the capacity for quality dementia care. The HKADA is also playing its role of dementia education in echoing to the Dementia Friends initiative of Alzheimer’s Society in the United Kingdom since 2017, to encourage all walks of life in Hong Kong to become Dementia Friends and motivate the public to translate care and acceptance of people with dementia into action.

In addition, they are now implementing two special projects:

1. Project e+: Dementia Community Support Service. Project e+ is a collaborative activity with Kwai Tsing District Office aiming to raise community awareness of the dementia issue through sustained publicity campaigns, to enhance early detection of dementia patients for timely interventions, and to provide concrete support to dementia patients and their families.
2. 4E’s Action for Dementia: Early detection, Early diagnosis, Early intervention, and Early planning. Sponsored by Ronald and Rita Mcaulay Foundation. This project targets Early detection, Early diagnosis, Early intervention, and Early planning by providing Early Detection Service, Community Memory Clinic, day centre services, Care planning consultation, and Emotional support.

References:

Hong Kong Alzheimer’s Disease Association. (2020b). Services – Day Centres. Retrieved from https://www.eng.hkada.org.hk/day-centres