XN000022-1972-10-18 — Page 13

13

Wednesday, October 18, 1972

Provision of facilities for the disabled, so that there

may be comprehensive services to meet their known needs in the field of training, employment and housing, particularly so as to help them to be independent and self-supporting members of the community.

Care of the elderly. Some were already benefiting from the public assisrance scheme, and others would receive the proposed additional disability allowance, but the object of further services would enable them to remain in the community as long as possible, and could be described as "care within the community. F

Extension of the existing limited network or community and social centres operated by the Social Welfare Department to cover the whole of Hong Kong. In this connection, considerable expansion of social and recreational facilities, through the voluntary agencies, was also envisaged.

14