Ad Hoc Committee on Housing and Residential Care

Current Past

Working Group on Elderly Services Programme Plan Working Group on Ageing in Place Working Group on Long Term Care Model Working Group on Active Ageing Community Partnership Committee Steering Committee on Arts Promotion Programme Task Group on Active Ageing Ad Hoc Committee on Housing and Residential Care Ad Hoc Committee on Home Care Working Group on Elderly Suicide and Dementia International Year of Older Persons 1999 Central Co-ordinating Committee International Year of Older Persons 1999 Fundraising and Allocation Sub-committee International Year of Older Persons 1999 Programme Sub-committee International Year of Older Persons 1999 Publicity Sub-committee Ad Hoc Committee on Healthy Ageing Steering Group on Healthy Ageing Public Education and Publicity Committee

Convenor

Mr CHENG Mo-chi, Moses,JP

Elderly Commission Members

Mr CHAN Kam-man,BBS,JP

Dr Iris CHI

Mrs LAM PEI, Peggy,SBS,JP

Mr WAN Man-yee,JP

Dr WU Wai-yung, Raymond,JP

Mr W H HO, Deputy Secretary, Representative of Secretary for Health and Welfare

Mr C M LEUNG,JP, Deputy Secretary, Representative of Secretary for Housing

Mr Stephen POON,BBS,JP, Deputy Director, Representative of Director of Housing

Mr Andrew LEUNG,JP, Director of Social Welfare

Co-opted Members

Mr MAK Kit-ping, Member of the HK Association of Senior Citizen

Ms FUNG Yuen-wah, Active elderly volunteer, Kwai Chung Elderly Service Centre

Mr KWOK Lit-tung, Chairman of the Elderly Rights League

Mr Stephen NG,JP, Community Services Secretary of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals

Mr WONG Man-bo, Chairman of the HK Association of the Private Homes for the Elderly

Miss Nora YAU,JP, Chairperson of the Services for Elderly Division, Council of Social Services

Dr Alfred CHAN, Associate Professor of City University of Hong Kong

Terms of Reference

To review the supply and demand of housing and residential care places for the elderly, with a view to increasing the supply by the public and private sectors to meet the demand in accordance with the agreed policy;

Where feasible, to recommend improvements to the current public housing allocation policies in respect of the elderly, including the various priority schemes for the elderly, with a view to achieving the policy objective of “ageing in place”;

To keep under review admission criteria and arrangements of various types of residential care homes for the elderly, with a view to achieving the policy objective of continuum of care. Where feasible, new initiatives that can help to improve the delivery of services should be mapped out; and

To undertake any task in relation to housing and residential care assigned by the Elderly Commission.