Carer Support
Carer Support
Abstract
Carers, in particular the unpaid carers, take up an important role in caring of the elderly. Within the process of long term care of elders, carers encounter a lot of difficulties such as dealing with sudden medical circumstances of elders, fragmented or insufficient information, lack of knowledge and skills and financial difficulty in purchase of health care items, etc. Under these pressures, carers are in desperate need of support service. In this session, we will first study the existing carer service and related pilot projects and to make suggestions on further enhancement and development. Moreover, we will explore collaboration opportunities among Government, private and public sectors such as empowerment of carers, building promotion and information platform, etc. We believe that members of the society can work hand in hand together to support the carers.
In 2015, Leila co-founded the Big Silver Community to mobilise our society to continuously innovate, experiment on and refine solutions related to ageing through solutions journalism.
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Prof. Chong participates actively in community services, including NGOs boards and government advisory committees, and was the Founding President of the Hong Kong Association of Schools of Social Work. She was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Government, as well as the Teaching Excellence Award by CityU and the University Grant Committee.
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She is the founding President of the Hong Kong Women Doctors’ Association and Chairman of the Hong Kong Women Doctors’ Association Charitable Foundation. She founded Supreme Care Ltd and International Healthcare Institute.
