19th World Congress on Long-Term Care of Chinese Communities

Kai Yuet Nursing Home

As the strategic leader of the “Dementia Care Mapping” programme in Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Society for the Aged has consistently applied the core principles of person-centred care in its elderly services.

SAGE Kai Yuet Nursing Home is the first contract home operated by the Society. It provides 120 government-subsidized places and 80 non-subsidized places, caring for a total of 200 older people.

Kai Yuet creates a deinstitutionalized living environment. Its distinctive services and facilities include: 1. Near-zero-restraint rooms with impact-absorbing flooring and ultra-low medical beds; 2. Palliative care and isolation rooms; 3. A spatial design inspired by a leisure resort; 4. A dining room themed after a traditional Hong Kong-style café, allowing older people to dine in a familiar nostalgic environment; and 5. Gerontechnology that maximizes care and rehabilitation outcomes.

Kai Yuet provides long-term accommodation and short-stay services supported by a one-stop rehabilitation training programme for older people in need.

Since its establishment in 1977, The Hong Kong Society for the Aged has continued to move with the times, proactively understand the needs of older people and expand its services to fill service gaps. It now operates 30 service units across Hong Kong, including residential care homes, day care centres, home care and support services, and elderly activity centres. These units record 35,000 service attendances each day and provide diverse, innovative services that help older people live fulfilling lives.

Over the years, the Society has introduced many well-regarded services providing appropriate support to different generations of older people, including territory-wide literacy promotion for older people, care for older people living alone, pain management and support, quality sleep management, information technology promotion, employment for middle-aged and older people, community soft meals, elder abuse prevention and advance care planning. Since 2003, it has received 188 awards in Hong Kong and overseas, earning recognition from professional organizations for service quality, corporate governance, innovation, staff training, information technology and corporate communications.