Elderly Services
173. We will continue to enhance elderly services. In the next two years, the Government expects to provide more than 500 additional residential care places and 300 subsidised day care places for the elderly. Apart from ongoing provision of visiting medical practitioner services, the Government has recently launched a four-year pilot scheme to provide professional outreach services, including social workers and physiotherapists, etc., for some 45 000 residents in private residential care homes for the elderly. The additional recurrent expenditure for launching the new measures in 2019-20 is around $1.36 billion. As mentioned earlier, I will provide, on a one-off basis, an additional $1,000 worth of Elderly Health Vouchers to benefit elderly persons.
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