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for their own aging, but to foster a caring community
where young and old alike can contribute towards a
better Hong Kong.
4.15
Other support services such as counselling and visiting
services will continue to be available to the elderly but the emphasis
will be on improving the quality of service to make better use of
existing resources. Volunteers play a key role in visiting services
and old people themselves can also be mobilised to provide a useful
service for other age groups.
4.16
To improve the delivery of services to those who require them,
community services for old people should be provided and co-ordinated
on a district basis.
Multi-service centres will be established to
provide a range of services such as home help, meals, laundry services,
counselling, social and recreational activities, visiting service,
community education and organizing volunteers involving both the
community and old people themselves. A minimum of 17 multi-service
centres will be required for this purpose of which seven are planned
to be provided by 1980/81.
4.17
The Civil Service will continue to adopt a flexible
retirement age so that persons aged 55 and over who can and are willing
to continue to work may do so. Employment of old people in the
private sector must depend on the state of the economy at the time,
but the Government and voluntary agencies will continue to assist in
finding suitable employment for them. As a longer term objective,
it is hoped to centralize existing employment services within the
Labour Department, but this will take time. For those old people who
do not wish to seek open employment, handicraft centres providing
part-time employment may be the answer. Two such centres are planned
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