TY - CHAP
T1 - Community-Based Rehabilitation in Hong Kong
T2 - Opportunities and Challenges
AU - Tong, Kar-wai
AU - Fong, Kenneth N. K.
N1 - Research Unit(s) information for this publication is provided by the author(s) concerned.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Community care is one of the worldwide strategies for governments to manage contemporary healthcarechallenges and long-term care. In response to an ageing population, the Hong Kong government has been promoting the concepts of community care and made initiatives, inter alia, in community-based rehabilitation (CBR). Despite these new drives, there is insufficient supply of CBR services. Provisions of CBR are currently fragmented, project-based, or on a self-financed basis. The authors argue that there is a lack of longer-term plan on CBR and that the government still relies on the heavily subsidized public hospital system. In this chapter, the authors share their views on the opportunities and challenges of CBR in Hong Kong.
AB - Community care is one of the worldwide strategies for governments to manage contemporary healthcarechallenges and long-term care. In response to an ageing population, the Hong Kong government has been promoting the concepts of community care and made initiatives, inter alia, in community-based rehabilitation (CBR). Despite these new drives, there is insufficient supply of CBR services. Provisions of CBR are currently fragmented, project-based, or on a self-financed basis. The authors argue that there is a lack of longer-term plan on CBR and that the government still relies on the heavily subsidized public hospital system. In this chapter, the authors share their views on the opportunities and challenges of CBR in Hong Kong.
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U2 - 10.4018/978-1-7998-3432-8.ch050
DO - 10.4018/978-1-7998-3432-8.ch050
M3 - RGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author)
SN - 9781799834328
SP - 1029
EP - 1054
BT - Research Anthology on Rehabilitation Practices and Therapy
PB - IGI Global Publishing
CY - Hershey, PA
ER -