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Policies for informal caregivers in Hong Kong: A review and an agenda
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Date Issued
2023
Conference
Citation
Lo, K. W. (2023 Sep 15). Policies for informal caregivers in Hong Kong: A review and an agenda. The 19th EASP conference, Sydney, Australia.
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
In recent years, informal family long-term caregiving has become an appealing policy topic in Hong Kong. However, the literature and statistics on caregivers in Hong Kong are limited. Collecting appropriate and accurate caregiver statistics in Hong Kong is difficult because there are no official longitudinal statistical data on informal caregiving. The Hong Kong Government released a long-awaited commissioned report in 2022 on the caregivers of the elderly and persons with disabilities. It is timely to gauge the views of the policy stakeholders accordingly.
This paper aims to inform the research and policy gaps in Hong Kong by the following measures:
1. Reviewing the government policies and services related to informal caregivers;
2. Analysing the current issues;
3. Discussing the possible policy directions for supporting informal caregivers.
This paper uses qualitative methods (archival policy review) to review the existing carer policies and collect the experience and views of the caregivers and frontline
workers utilising the concept of ‘informal conversation’ (Swin and King, 2022).
With the data collected between 2018-2022, this paper investigates the issues related to informal caregivers and discusses the possible directions for caregiver policies and services.
This paper aims to inform the research and policy gaps in Hong Kong by the following measures:
1. Reviewing the government policies and services related to informal caregivers;
2. Analysing the current issues;
3. Discussing the possible policy directions for supporting informal caregivers.
This paper uses qualitative methods (archival policy review) to review the existing carer policies and collect the experience and views of the caregivers and frontline
workers utilising the concept of ‘informal conversation’ (Swin and King, 2022).
With the data collected between 2018-2022, this paper investigates the issues related to informal caregivers and discusses the possible directions for caregiver policies and services.
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