Fong Shu Chuen Integrated Home Care Services Centre

History

In April 2003, the 3 service teams were re-engineered into the Integrated Home Care Service Team and the centre was renamed as "Fong Shu Chuen Integrated Home Care Services Centre". The service aims at providing care to frail elderly, disabled persons, individuals and families with social needs in the district, so as to sustain their living in the community. Integrated Home Care Service Team provides comprehensive care according to individual needs of different service users, so as to achieve the mission of "ageing in the community" and "continuum of care".

Objective

• To provide home care services, nursing and rehabilitation services to cater to the daily needs of elders who lack self-care ability, disabled persons and families in need.
• To actualize the concepts of "ageing in place" and "continuum of care" in the community through the provision of a comprehensive range of home care and support service.

Service Description

To meet the varied needs of service users, Integrated Home Care Services provide services to the following three categories of cases:

• Frail Case
  

Elders assessed to be in state of moderate or severe level of impairment by the Standardised Care Need Assessment Mechanism for Elderly Services, and in need of a comprehensive package of services.

• Ordinary Case

Those service users, who suffer from no to mild level of impairment or disability, or those with moderate to severe level of impairment but require only personal care, simple nursing care and/or other support services.

• Mild Impairment Case

Elders assessed to be at least with mild impairment and waitlisted for Integrated Home Care Services (Ordinary Cases).

Service Recipients

• Elders aged 60 or above who lacks self-care ability and is living our service boundary
• People with disabilities
• Individuals or families with social needs