12.
For those requiring a limited amount of nursing
care, there are at present 1,020 places in care-and-attention
homes. A further 2,000 places are planned in 13 projects
in the next four years. Based on the present planning
ratio of four places per 1,000 people over 60, the demand
should be met in 1988.
13.
Those who need a greater degree of nursing and
medical attention should be accommodated in infirmaries.
There
are plans to increase the present 1,060 infirmary beds three-
fold during the next ten years.
14.
I should like to say a little about a project
which will reflect an integrated approach to the provision
of services for the elderly. The Po Leung Kuk plans to
build a home for the aged and day-care centre at Wong Chuk
Hang, which will be next door to a combined care-and-attention
home and infirmary to be built and operated by the
Government.
This should enable the changing needs of elderly
people to be met in a single location, thus avoiding the
unfortunate effects which can occur when an elderly person
has to be uprooted from a familiar environment because of a
need for a different type of care or service.
15.
Another possibility which is being explored
at present is a proposal that the Housing Authority should
provide and operate hostels in public housing estates
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