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through public assistance or the special needs allowance
scheme. In the last resort, where the problems faced by the
household prove to be insurmountable, the elderly person
will be considered for placement in a residential home.
Z.
If those who provide home care fall ill,
arrangements can be made for the elderly persons to be
accommodated on a temporary basis in a home for the aged or
in a care-and-attention home.
Consideration is also being
given to providing a "respite service"
by which by which
wheresy temporary
accommodation for the elderly would be provided in order to
them
give those who look after-de
these duties from time to time.
lasives a break from
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Sir, I understand that there are proposals for
several academic studies of services for the elderly,
which will include research into the problems faced by
people who provide home care. I look forward with
interest to seeing the findings of these studies in due
course, and I hope that they will shed more light. on this
subject.
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