Integrated Community Health Service

Project Objectives:

To apply eHealth and digital health solutions to empower older people to build self-management habits
To promote elderly centres as the first point of contact for detecting and addressing the health and social needs of the elderly for healthy ageing
To pilot eHealth and digital health technology to improve quality of life for the elderly through innovative approach, and to collect, aggregate and analyse the health characteristics and patterns of the elderly through data analytics
 

Service Target:

Hong Kong residents aged 60 or above hoping to adopt a healthy lifestyle

Service Components:

1. Tele-care Programme - to empower self-management among the elderly

• eHealth station at service centre
• Health data is transferred to service team by cloud technology for proactive monitoring and follow-up
• eHealth members can log in to the eHealth station and conduct regular measurement at the service centre with smart card

2. To conduct Well-being Survey for the elderly and provide appropriate health advice for the elderly and their caregivers based on the survey results;
3. To implement programmes with the theme of “Sarcopenia Prevention and Acknowledgement”, and/or other health-related themes;
4. To refer elderly for relevant community health and/or other social services based on their individualised needs.