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thes such as Hong Hong must address. I support the Government's improvements in this field for the past few years but it seems that supply still lags far behind demand. As sanitation improves in our society the population of our elderly will certainly increase very dramatically.
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now,
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do not invest to improve the services
that am afraid the problem of elderly welfare will be aggravated and this will be 'a misfortune and a disgrace for society. I hope that we will see a rapid increase in the number of beds
and in government homes for the Aged, which also
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try to utilise the charitable donations from
and the public to encourage voluntary agencies to run homes for the aged. The Government should
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also give more support in subvention, accomm- odation, land and training of staff. I hope
that we will achieve the goal of taking care of all our elderly people, since we do not have enough beds in our homes for the aged, we have more private homes for the aged, but these are essentially profit-making and they have very low standards of provision and
We should net overlock This Point. services. The codes of practice' for homes for the aged are not legally binding, they are not applied very often and so legislation in
this field is most urgent.
Talking about education, I welcome the setting up of the University of Science and Technology which will have its first enrollment of students
in 1991. But I am more concerned about the
progress of open education. Now we have a lot of working youths who do not have the chance of entering University but hope very much to improve themselves. They are using their
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