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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

/for....