District Elderly Community Centre (DECC)/ Neighbourhood Elderly Centre (NEC) is a type of community support services at district level to enable elderly persons to remain in the community and to lead a healthy, respectful and dignified life. DECCs/NECs also collaborate with other service units in the district and cooperate to build a caring community with better use of community resources.

The service provided by DECC/NEC are including educational and developmental activities, volunteer development, carer support services, educational and

supportive programmes on dementia, counselling services, reaching out and

networking, etc.

District Elderly Community Centre (DECC)/ Neighbourhood Elderly Centre (NEC) provide service according to the service boundaries by district. There are specific service organization and service units in each respective area. 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.

District Elderly Community Centres/Neighbourhood Elderly Centres

The source of information is provided by the Social Welfare Department