LEGISLATORS voted unanimously to call on the Government to improve welfare services for the elderly.
Independent Eric Li Ka-cheung said the Government should maintain the existing basic criterion of allowing people aged 60 or above access to the services.
The Government proposed in its working group report on care for the elderly that the basic minimum age for elderly services be raised to 65.
However, the Government has said those between 60 to 64 would also be eligible for such services if it was proved that they were in need of them.
Democratic Party legislator Fred Li Wah-ming said the Government had ignored the needs of the 240,000 people who were between 60 and 64.
He said that because there were not enough elderly services, the interests of those between 60 and 64 would be sacrificed first if the basic minimum age for such services was set at 65.