Media Coverage: Matthew Cheung sees home-care service

2015/08/31

Secretary for Labour & Welfare Matthew Cheung visited the Christian Family Service Centre's Everjoy facility in Kwun Tong today to inspect the home-care services it provides for the disabled.

He was briefed on the centre's home-care service and carer support service for people with severe disabilities living in the Kwun Tong and Wong Tai Sin areas.

The services include personal care services, occupational therapy or physiotherapy and rehabilitation training services.

Mr Cheung also went to Shun Lee Estate to visit a disabled person who lost her cognitive and self-care abilities after an accident.

He spoke with her parents who take care of her daily, to better understand the home-care service she receives.

"To provide better care and support for persons with severe mental and physical disabilities while they are awaiting residential care services, as well as to alleviate the pressure faced by their families and carers, the Social Welfare Department regularised the home-care service in March 2014 by extending the services territory-wide with recurrent funding of about $200 million a year," Mr Cheung said.

"Persons with severe disabilities not on the waiting list for subvented residential care services can also join the scheme. Manpower at the parents and relatives resource centre has also been enhanced to help build mutual help networks in the community and strengthen support for families and carers."