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
1.Patients with advanced chronic diseases and their families living in Wan Chai District or Eastern District of Hong Kong Island
2.Suffering from the following long-term illnesses:
- Heart failure
- Advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Late stage parkinsonism
- End stage renal failure
- Server Stroke and end stage dementia
- Advanced motor neuron disease
Service Highlights
About Jockey Club End-of-Life Community Care Project
Hong Kong is facing a rapidly ageing population, with the number of elderly suffering from terminal illnesses increasing correspondingly. In view of the growing demand for end-of-life care services in the community, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust has approved approximately HK$623 million to initiate and fund the “Jockey Club End-of-Life Community Care Project” (JCECC). Launched in 2016, the project aims to improve the quality of end-of-life care, enhance the capacity of service providers, as well as raise public awareness.
JCECC is a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional and cross-sectoral collaboration to help enhance end-of-life care in Hong Kong with special emphasis on the interface between social and medical systems. Service models are being developed and shaped to provide holistic support to terminally-ill elders in the community and elderly homes. The goal is to enable the city’s older people to make informed choices about their care and to have an improved quality of life.
