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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

$.

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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