Program Introduction
This community hospice care project is a pilot project funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Foundation. It aims to establish a holistic community hospice care service model through cross-sector collaboration and community mobilization to improve the quality of life of patients with terminal illnesses, allowing them to live with dignity and meaning. If you have any inquiries, please call 2549-7744.
Service Content
Symptom Relief
- Educate patients and their families on how to relieve physical discomfort (such as asthma, fatigue, insomnia, etc.)
Support for Carers
- Provide caregiving skills training to family members and learn to deal with caregiving stress
Volunteer care
- Volunteer telephone care and visits
Home Care Support
- Connect and refer needed community resources
- Provide and teach the use of appropriate assistive tools to assist in daily life
Personal and Family Counseling Services
- Help patients and family members reduce emotional distress
- Promote communication and support among family members
Re-meaning
- Discuss and help patients achieve their wishes
- Life review, leaving good memories
Build a Prosperous Late Life
- Help patients and their families face late life positively
- Help patients establish a more active and happy lifestyle (such as teaching appropriate self-help exercises at home, dietary modification, outdoor activities, and setting short-term goals)
Service Target
- Patients with advanced chronic diseases and their families living in Wan Chai District or Eastern District of Hong Kong Island
- Suffering from the following long-term illnesses:
- Advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- End stage renal failure
- Late stage parkinsonism
- Advanced motor neuron disease
- Heart failure
Service Highlights
About Jockey Club End-of-Life Community Care Project
As Hong Kong’s population ages and the number of elderly patients with terminal illnesses continues to rise, the public’s demand for community care services for terminally ill patients is also increasing. To this end, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust allocated HK$131 million in 2015 to implement the three-year “Jockey Club End-of-Life Community Care Project” to help improve the quality of late-stage care services in the community and provide professional services and conduct public education events.
The project combines cross-sectoral efforts to connect the community and the medical system through different service models to strengthen existing end-of-life care services. The project will pilot five innovative service models in the community to provide comprehensive support to elderly patients with terminal illnesses so that they can make appropriate end-of-life care choices with full knowledge and improve their quality of life. Project partners include: School of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong, Jockey Club Institute of Gerontology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Geriatric Society, Haven of Hope Christian Society, Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation, St. James’ Settlement, and the Elders of the Anglican Church of St. Martin’s Church Regional Center.
