SWD has purchased places from private homes for the elderly under the Enhanced Bought Place Scheme (EBPS) since 1998, with a view to upgrading the service standard of these homes through enhanced service requirements in terms of staffing and space standard. This also helps to increase the supply of subsidised places so as to reduce elders' waiting time for subsidised care-and-attention places.

Nature of Services

Private homes for the elderly participating EBPS provide residential care, meals, personal care and limited nursing care for elders who suffer from poor health or physical/mild mental disabilities with deficiency in activities of daily living.

For the details of the service, you may refer to the following Social Welfare Department website.

Residential Care Homes of Enhanced Bought Place Scheme

The source of information is provided by the Social Welfare Department