Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU
The Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) will concentrate on providing trainings to healthcare and social care professionals mainly on communications and psychosocial interventions. Holistic training programmes will also be conducted to end-of-life care (EoLC) volunteers, in both face-to-face and virtual format. Besides, public education initiatives will be raised to increase the public awareness on end-of-life care, especially on advance care planning and encouraging communications between patients and the family members. A systematic evaluation will be taken place, not only to evaluate the effectiveness of the afore-mentioned education programmes, but also to evaluate the effectiveness of the end-of-life care service model, which developed by the HKU team, and implemented by the project’s NGO partners.
CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing
The CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing will collaborate with the Hospital Authority to improve the quality of end-of-life care in community and hopsitals in New Territories East cluster. Enhancing the capacity of healthcare professional in providing end-of-life care service and educating patients, family members and the public on how to face death are key factors on improving the quality of end-of-life care. Therefore, a mindset change of healthcare professionals and enhancement of service model in handling patients in hospital will be important. It is hoped that the programme implemented in the New Territories East cluster will serve as a useful model for other clusters to consider and adopt in future.
Haven of Hope Christian Service
This project aims to enhance quality end-of-life care in client’s home and in the community and improve the quality of life of end-of-life patients and their family members.
Hong Kong Association of Gerontology
This project aims to enhance the capacity of the Residential Care Homes for the Elderly (RCHEs) to be more willing, ready and able to provide quality palliative and end-of-life care in long term care settings. In the long run, the model of care could be widely adopted in all Government subvented Care-and-Attention Homes in Hong Kong with appropriate policy and funding.
Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Welfare Council Limited
This project aims to enhance the capacity of the Residential Care Homes for the Elderly (RCHEs) to be more willing, ready and able to provide quality palliative and end-of-life care in long term care settings. In the long run, the model of care could be widely adopted in all Government subvented Care-and-Attention Homes in Hong Kong with appropriate policy and funding.
S K H Holy Carpenter Church District Elderly Community Centre
“Hospice in Family” Home Care Support Services seeks to provide end-of-life home care service for terminal patients and their family members, in order to preserve their dignity and to improve their quality of life. This project also aims to raise public awareness of end-of-life home care service, and to create a positive attitude towards death.
St James’ Settlement
The Project aims at providing community end-of-life care to life-threatening illness patients and their families, so as to support patients staying at home as their preferred place of care.
The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation
“Life Rainbow” End-of-Life Care Services provides quality community end-of-life care to people with late stage chronic illness and their family members who live in Hong Kong East. It adopts collaborative approach and aims at fostering care partnership with hospitals, family members, patients’ self-help groups, professional and neighborhood volunteers to support families in need, so as to create a holistic community end-of-life care service model.
The Salvation Army
This project aims to enhance the capacity of the Residential Care Homes for the Elderly (RCHEs) to be more willing, ready and able to provide quality palliative and end-of-life care in long term care settings. In the long run, the model of care could be widely adopted in all Government subvented Care-and-Attention Homes in Hong Kong with appropriate policy and funding.
Tung Wah Group of Hospitals
This project aims to enhance the capacity of the Residential Care Homes for the Elderly (RCHEs) to be more willing, ready and able to provide quality palliative and end-of-life care in long term care settings. In the long run, the model of care could be widely adopted in all Government subvented Care-and-Attention Homes in Hong Kong with appropriate policy and funding.
The Integrated Community End-of-Life Care Support Teams (ICESTs)
The ICEST is a community-based service team specialised in providing whole-person care to community-dwelling patients with end-of-life issues and their family members. Through partnership with public hospitals, the ICEST aims to strengthen the community support for patients, promote the quality of life of patients and their family members, and allow patients to spend quality time with their loved ones in a familiar place. ICEST also represents a unified and empirically tested service model derived from the findings on JCECC community-based EoLC models in the first three years of the Project.
