The fifth wave of the epidemic has highlighted the shortage of resources for the elderly. The Hong Kong Elderly Service Association held a press conference yesterday and put forward a number of suggestions for improving elderly services, including developing the border areas of country parks and allowing non-profit-making organizations to build elderly homes.
Leung Chun-ying, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former chief executive, who proposed to develop the borders of country parks during his tenure as chief executive, said that he made the proposal again more than a year ago.
The last government invited the Housing Society to study and develop the border areas of country parks. One of the sites selected is the green space to the west of Tai Lam Tunnel Toll Plaza, which is one of the border areas of country parks to study the feasibility of building houses.
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Hong Kong Elderly Services Association proposes to deal with shortage of manpower and residential homes
The Hong Kong Elderly Services Association suggested that the restrictions on the importation of foreign workers in elderly homes should be relaxed in the short term to make up for the long-term manpower shortage.
In the long run, it is necessary to establish a career advancement ladder for elderly care services, so that the elderly care profession and the medical profession will not compete with each other for manpower.
In terms of land, the association proposes to relax the 24-meter height limit for residential care homes for the elderly and exempt residential building areas to attract private development properties to provide more residential care homes for the elderly.
The association also proposes to develop the border areas of country parks to allow non-profit-making organisations to build residential care homes for the elderly and provide services in the form of rental or contract homes.
Leung Chun-ying expressed his support for the proposition of the Hong Kong Elderly Services Association on Facebook, saying that the most difficult problem in Hong Kong's elderly homes is the space problem.
He said that in 2017 he commissioned the Housing Society to conduct a feasibility study on the development of the border area of Tai Lam Country Park, including the construction of HOS housing and residential care homes for the elderly.
More than a year ago, he made this claim again and announced the boundary line and other specific contents of the project, including the construction of 25,000 HOS units sold at cost on land of no more than 70 hectares, and the accommodation of 2,000 elderly people. Residential non-profit, two-storey residential care home for the elderly.
Leung Chun-ying said that talking about solutions to social problems must be specific, otherwise the conclusions drawn will have no reference value.
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