Policy Address

176. The Government will increase funding for the Infirmary Care Supplement and the Dementia Supplement and implement a pilot scheme under the Lotteries Fund to provide specialised residential care services for elderly persons with special needs at designated residential care homes for the elderly.

177. The Government will extend the Pilot Residential Care Services Scheme in Guangdong for three years to provide elderly persons waiting for subsidised care-and-attention places with an option to live in the two elderly homes located respectively in Shenzhen and Zhaoqing which are run by Hong Kong NGOs. Under the Guangdong Scheme, we will once again exempt, on a one-off basis for a one-year period, eligible elderly persons already residing in Guangdong from the requirement of having resided in Hong Kong continuously for at least one year immediately before the date of application. We will also introduce the Fujian Scheme to provide monthly Old Age Allowance (OAA) for eligible elderly persons who choose to reside in Fujian.

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