Today (21st) is "Senior Citizen's Day", all kinds of transportation are offered with discounts, and only the home becomes a nightmare for the elderly.
A group announced that unsuitable residential housing needs to be studied. It was found that 66% of the respondents over the age of 60 did not have a lift in their homes, but the proportion of chronic diseases such as stroke, cognitive impairment, and eye diseases reached 75%, or even Someone was suffering from cancer. A 69-year-old dim sum chef was unemployed due to the epidemic. Last year, he suffered a stroke. A total of 18 stairs on the 9th floor of the Tang Dynasty made it difficult for him to walk. In the end, he was unable to return to the toilet in time, so he had to settle in the alley. He would rather not go out for three days. Some groups urged the government to review the policy and support the elderly to live in peace.
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The stroke is bad
Uncle Cao, 69, has worked as a dim sum chef in a restaurant for many years. He rented a 70-foot cubicle unit on the 9th floor of Tang, Fuk Wing Street, Sham Shui Po about 6 to 7 years ago. He is the same as his wife and 18-year-old daughter who is studying in Secondary Four. The unit has five rooms and shares kitchen and toilets. Up to ten people live in the peak period. Due to the limited space, all of the daughter’s work and rest, such as homework or activities, are carried out on the bed. The tenants vie for the use of the toilet, "I have tried a rant, but I have to ask him to return to the room to solve it."
He originally had a stable income. He was the first to bear the brunt of the new crown pneumonia epidemic last year. In addition, he was getting older and joined the lost army in April last year. However, it is not only that he suddenly felt numb in his hands and feet in October last year. He was immediately sent to the hospital for treatment until he was walking on the street. He was diagnosed as having a stroke. He was discharged after 35 days in the hospital. However, his mobility was not as good as before. He had to use crutches to assist in walking, talk and move around. His ability was greatly reduced, and he could only continue to walk for more than ten minutes, after which he had to sit down and rest.
He said that he used to move his hands and feet smoothly, and it was not a big problem to go up and down nine floors and a total of 18 stairs, but now he has to use crutches to get in and out, and it takes more than ten minutes to go down the stairs alone, and the neighborhood is commonly known as a toy. The streets of Furong Street, the streets were busy, and Cao had to slowly intersperse among the crowds. It was like participating in an obstacle course. The situation worsened on weekends. With stalls everywhere and the crowd of foreign servants, Cao was basically struggling. It took less than five minutes to pass through the underground tunnel at the junction of Guilin Street and then to the underground entrance of the apartment via Toy Street. It originally took less than five minutes, but it took him more than double the time, at least ten minutes to arrive, and he was panting and sat on the stairs to rest. It took another ten minutes to successfully reach the office on the 9th floor of Tang Dynasty and open the door. He said that after trying to get out of the street, there were too many people flowed. Suddenly, there were three rushes and there was no toilet nearby. As a result, he had to solve it in the alley, which made him afraid to go out. I've tried to fall down the stairs several times. I didn't dare to go out for three days. I always fasten it lightly when I go out. I only have wallets, tissues, and mobile phones in my pocket.
Cao Bo fell on the street with weakness in his limbs in October last year. After he was diagnosed with a stroke, he was unable to travel.
(Photo by Mo Jiawen)
Shen compassionate resettlement of social workers upstairs: all of them are sick, and I have to get a lot of public housing?
Cao Bo said that his wife used to work as a waiter at a rice noodle shop, but since he suffered a stroke, he has resigned to take care of his daily life. He has to apply for CSSA from the Social Welfare Department. However, because the two still have savings, the social worker said that he would have to spend all the money in the account before the official The application was postponed until September this year to receive 12,000 CSSA living expenses. However, the application for public housing was delayed repeatedly. He had applied for "compassionate rehousing" to medical social workers due to health problems to speed up public housing, but the other party responded "Everyone All of them are sick, and Ms. Mi wants to get a lot of public housing?” Finally refused to write a referral letter to the doctor to sign the doctor’s paper. He could only wait in line according to the original procedure and wait indefinitely. At the same time, he was unable to pay the transportation fee because he had washed out all his savings. And the new home deposit, can only continue to live on the address until formally go upstairs.
The case of Cao Bo waiting for public housing indefinitely after suffering a stroke and still living in a poor subdivision housing environment is not an exception. The Hong Kong Association of Community Organizations today (21) published a study on the housing needs of the elderly who are not suitable for residential housing, and was interviewed from October to November this year. 190 elders who have reached the age of 60 and live in unsuitable housing, understand their housing and financial needs.
Among the interviewees, 86% were single or double-elder families, 69% of the interviewees lived in sub-divided houses, and the rest lived in cubicles, cage homes, bedspace houses, rooftop houses and squatter houses, the most exaggerated One respondent wanted to live in a flat with 21 other residents.
As the elderly get older and their bodies begin to suffer from physical problems, the study found that 75% of the elders interviewed have suffered from strokes, cognitive impairment, arthritis, cardiovascular diseases, eye diseases and other diseases, 5% of them have cancer, and 51% of them suffer. The interviewees admitted that they were inconvenient to move, and some of them needed to use armrests or walkers, and even wheelchairs. In the past year, 29% of the interviewees fell at home or on stairs, reflecting that the risk of falling in an unsuitable home has greatly increased for the elderly .
The study found that 44% of people living above the fifth floor of the Tang Dynasty lived for an average of 6 years
The study also found that 73% of the respondents live in units without lifts or flat elevators, and 44% live above the fifth floor of the Tang Dynasty. The median length of residence in the current unit is four years, and the total number of years of living in unsuitable dwellings. The median period is six years. 61% of the interviewees rated their current living environment as poor or very poor, but 95% of the elderly admitted that they were forced to continue renting subdivided flats because of financial difficulties and unable to pay the rent of the entire unit on their own.
Even though 93% of the respondents have applied for public housing, 73% of the respondents have been waiting for more than four years.
The study tried to find the cause and found that 92% of the respondents chose the location of public housing units as the "urban area". However, the supply of public housing and green housing units in the "urban area" will be tight in the next few years, especially for one to two people. The number of units completed from 2022 to 2023 is zero. By 2023 to 2024, the supply of public housing and green housing units in the "market" will be about 4,000, of which only 500 units are for one to two persons, including one-person applicants. In particular, the government has continuously reclassified public rental housing to green homes for sale in recent years, reducing the allocation of rental units for the elderly, and making the single elderly wait on average for more than four years.
According to the Social Association, although the government will support transitional housing and cash allowance schemes for the extension of the waiting time, all of them are based on the waiting list for public housing for more than three years. The current average time for the elderly to go upstairs is 3.8 years. The number of people who can benefit from the above projects is extremely small. At the same time, the construction subsidy fee for each transitional house by the Transport and Housing Bureau is only 550,000 yuan. Small-scale transitional housing projects are difficult to provide elderly-friendly measures, including the design of additional accessible spaces and handrails, and Only 20% of the transitional housing is granted to people who have been waiting for public housing for less than three years. In a disguised form, the undertaking organization "tie hands and feet".
Deputy Director Shi Lishan urged the government to review the existing policies as soon as possible, including implementing rent control laws as soon as possible and including the initial rent, increasing one-person rent to affordable rents for subdivided housing, and subsidizing the one-off relocation allowance and rent for the elderly with physical impairment or special needs Subsidies and allow the elderly to subsidize occupational therapists to provide home improvement assessments for families with full-length persons.
Regarding transitional housing and compassionate resettlement policies, she urged the government to further relax the qualifications and approval criteria. In the long run, it will refer to the young hostels to build more elderly housing projects, build more public housing units for one- to two-person families, and straighten out the public housing constituency. The city was dismantled into Kowloon and Hong Kong Island, etc.
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