A major operator of homes for the elderly is wooing secondary-school leavers who fail to gain entry to higher study with free courses and HK$8,000 a month to join its staff.
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18 Apr 2012
Elderly need more subsidised care
The plight of 100-year-old Ng King-yin and his wife, Lam Sau-king, 95, highlights the lack of places in homes for the elderly.
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Facilitating quality living for older generations is a major priority for the Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS). However, rather than simply providing specialist housing for the elderly, the...
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The workload is heavy and the frustrations are many, but the satisfactions of helping patients outweighs everything else, says the outgoing chief of the medicine and geriatrics department at...
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Centenarian Ng King-yin and his 95-year-old wife Lam Sau-king moved into a private care home together last Tuesday, temporarily easing fears that they would be forced to live apart after eight...
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Lawmakers yesterday made a cross-party plea for the government to provide more residential-care services for elderly couples.
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Well-off retirees are being offered homes for the rest of their lives in two upmarket housing projects in Hong Kong. Those taking up the offer will pay one-off lump sum rent...
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No one can help but feel sorry for the couple, aged 100 and 95, who, after being married for seven decades, may have to separate and live in different old people's homes. The pair are just two...
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The plight of an elderly couple who are struggling to stay together exposes serious glitches and shortages in the care-home system that need to be tackled, said legislators who visited the pair...
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Ng King-yin has finally been offered a place at an aged-care home after two years of waiting. But he must choose between staying with his wife of 70 years and the care that he needs.
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Nursing home managers protested outside the chief executive's office yesterday, urging an end to a Labour Advisory Board boycott of foreign workers that they say has placed 'unfair' strain on...
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Yan Ming-kit knew she had to seek outside help when her mother suffered a fourth stroke eight years ago. Tam Kam-chue had been a livewire when she was younger, but at the age of 79, arthritis,...
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