Elderly Resources Centre

“Age-friendly home” is a home suitable for the elderly in terms of environment, lifestyle and ageing process, ensuring a safe and comfortable living in their late years. As people grow old, they are faced with different challenges from deterioration. Adjustments made to the elderly lifestyle and home environment will help them meet their changing care needs and remain in their own homes as long as possible.

1. Environment:
It includes home and outdoor design and facilities as well as relevant home services that cater for different needs of the elderly.

2. Ageing Process:
In the natural ageing process, there are changes in senses, cognition, physical functioning and psychological condition.

3. Elderly Lifestyle:
The elderly people have their own preferences, habits and patterns of behaviour.

Service Target

• Service Target
• Family members and care-givers
• Students
• Professionals from other corporations or institutions

Q1. What changes do elderly face during ageing process?
Elderly face different levels of changes in physical body or sensation, including vision, hearing, smell, touch, mobility and cognitive function. All these are natural ageing processes.

Q2. How do elderly adjust their lifestyle to cope with the changes in ageing process?
To achieve healthy lifestyle, elderly can adjust their behaviors on various aspects, for example, having balance diets and regular sleep pattern, doing suitable exercises, quitting dangerous and bad habits. Dangerous habits include climbing up or squatting to get things frequently. These would increase the fall risks.

Q3. What are the examples of “safe, convenient and barrier-free” in an age-friendly home?
You can refer to our articles here

Q1. What challenges do people with dementia face in daily life?
They face challenges like: different levels of memory loss, confusion about what is real and unreal, difficulty in communicating with others etc. These issues adversely affect daily life, and these are not part of the normal stage of ageing.

Q2. What are the examples of “8 Principles of Mind-Friendly Home Design”?

You can also refer to our articles here

問：想為家中長者改裝家居，可以怎樣做？
答：本中心有職業治療師能提供免費的家居改裝諮詢服務，本服務只限提供針對性的家居改裝方案，不設實際的上門家居評估，亦不給予裝修服務或推介裝修工程公司的資料。 (可參考《銀髮家居 DIY》)

問：職業治療師若不會上門進行家居評估，怎能提供針對性改裝方案？
答：客方須預早將家居環境的相片或影片提供予本中心，再由職業治療師按長者情況，評估後作出針對性改裝方案。 

問：中心的所有活動和服務，需要收費嗎？
答：中心的所有活動和服務，均費用全免。 

問：我未夠60歲，可以參觀中心嗎？
答：中心設有的健康探索團，只為60歲或以上人士進行身體測試及評估。但中心其他的導賞團及體驗團，包括「樂齡家居睇真D」導賞團、「智醒家居睇真D」導賞團、「身歷耆境」體驗團及「智身耆境」體驗團，均為所有人而設。 

問：長者安居資源中心是否會提供房屋申請？
答：本中心沒有任何房屋申請服務，但我們可以提供房屋申請部的相關電話及地址予以閣下。 

問：貴中心是否有任何長者輔助器具出售或租借？
答：本中心沒有出售或租借任何長者輔助器具，但本中心設有長者模擬家居的展館，展示各類的長者輔助器具及樂齡科技產品，可供閣下預約參觀。此外，閣下如有需要購買及查詢任何長者輔助器具或樂齡科技產品，本中心能提供相關產品的供應商資料，以供參考。 

問：我有興趣加入成為你們的中心服務大使，可以怎樣做？
答：本中心很歡迎任何人士加入成為我們的服務大使，你可以致電2839 2882查詢。

Tel：2839 2882
Fax：2385 2136
Email：erc@hkhs.com

Address: Shop A-C, G/F., Prosperous Garden, 3 Public Square Street, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon (Opposite to Cinematheque Broadway) View Larger Map

Opening hours: Mondays – Saturdays: 9:00am to 12:30pm & 1:30pm to 6:00pm, Sundays and public holidays: Closed

Direction

Turn to Man Ming Lane from Yau Ma Tei Station Exit C and walk for three minutes to the end of the lane where you will see Wanchai Church Kei To Primary School. Cross the road to Prosperous Garden and you will see a covered entrance to ERC on the right side of the housing estate.

For wheelchair users: view the direction（From Yau Ma Tei Station Exit B）