Integrated Home Care Service
Service Objectives
Our Integrated Home Care Service is devoted to putting the rationales of "continuum of care" and "ageing in place" into practice. By providing home-based community care services to senior citizens and needy people, we enable them to live in their familiar community and enjoy a delightful, autonomous, dignified and hopeful life with comprehensive care. We are dedicated to:
- Provide support services to those individuals or families who need support for their daily living due to frailties, illnesses or lack of care.
- Provide nursing care, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and rehabilitation training to frail seniors to enhance their self-care and cognitive ability, as a result facilitate them to stay in the community and avoid premature admission to residential facilities.
- Strengthen the community support network of service users to facilitate them to integrate and enjoy an active living in the community.
Introduction
The two main service targets of Integrated Home Care Service include: Seniors aged 60 or above who are living in the community, People with disabilities and individuals and families with social needs. According to the varied needs of these target groups, they are classified into two categories: (1) Home Support Services (i) people aged 60 or above (who are assessed to be at the state of mild impairment or requiring higher level of care by a designated assessment tool) (ii) people with disabilities and individuals and families with social needs who have to be referred by registered social workers from social welfare service units), (2) Frail Cases (seniors assessed and recommended for Community Care Services or Residential Care Services under the Standardised Care Need Assessment Mechanism for Elderly Services of Social Welfare Department). Our Integrated Home Care Service Teams in Kwun Tong and Shamshuipo serve exceeds 900 cases and the annual service attendance exceeds 170,000. Major Service Contents include:
- Meal service
- Basic health care
- General physical exercises
- Household cleaning
- Escort service
- Purchase and delivery of daily necessities
- Environmental risk assessment and home modifications suggestions Carer/carer of elderly persons support services and training Care management and assessment
- Personal care
- Home respite service
- Counselling service
Apart from the above services, other services provided to Frail Cases include basic and special nursing care, rehabilitation exercises, arrangement of respite service, speech therapy, 24-hour emergency support, etc.
In addition to regular home support and care services, we actively explore resources to provide preventive health assessment and early treatment to meet service users' special needs, such as foot pathology, and chronic pain. Moreover, we are concerned about the mental and social wellness of the seniors. Therefore, various activities such as volunteer visits, festival celebrations and outings are organised to facilitate the seniors to strengthen their social support networks, recognise their strengths and actively integrate into the community to enjoy an autonomous and dignified life.