Day Care Centres / Units for the Elderly (DEs / DCUs) provide centre-based community care services, such as day time care, rehabilitation exercises and social activities, to frail elderly persons aged 60 or above living in the community and who are assessed and recommended for Community Care Services or Residential Care Services under the Standardised Care Need Assessment Mechanism for Elderly Services, including those suffering from dementia. The services aim at helping service users maintain an optimal level of functioning, improve their quality of life and age in place in a familiar community. They also provide various kinds of support and assistance to carers.

Under the subvented community care service, you can only choose either subvented day care service or Enhanced Home and Community Care Services. 

There is the assessment before the applicant to queue and get in to the service. You can reach the DECCs/NECs in your service boundary for further information. You may find the information of service boundaries from the SWD website below:

The service areas of respective DECCs and NECs

You can also search the specific service unit in our search engine.

The source of information is provided by the Social Welfare Department