There are two types of subvented home care. They are Integrated Home Care Service (IH) and Enhanced Home and Community Care Service (EH).

Integrated Home Care Services (Ordinary Cases) [IHCS(Ordinary Cases)] / Home Care and Support Services for Elderly Persons with Mild Impairment (HSMI)

Integrated Home Care Services (Ordinary Cases) [IHCS(Ordinary Cases)] and Home Care and Support Services for Elderly Persons with Mild Impairment (HSMI).  IHCS (Ordinary Cases) provide home-based community support services to the elderly persons aged 60 or above, persons with disabilities, and individuals and families with social needs living in the community. HSMI aims to provide home care and support services to elderly persons aged 60 or above, who are assessed to be at least with mild impairment under a simplified and standardised assessment tool and waitlisted for IHCS (Ordinary Cases), according to their needs to facilitate their ageing in place.

For the application of Integrated Home Care Services (Ordinary Cases) [IHCS(Ordinary Cases)] or Home Care and Support Services for Elderly Persons with Mild Impairment (HSMI), the applicant can contact the service unit by their own. The service units are divided by district respectively. You may find the information of service boundaries from the SWD website below:

List of Integrated Home Care Services units and Service Boundary

You can also search the specific service unit in our search engine.

Enhanced Home and Community Care Services (EHCCS) / Integrated Home Care Services (Frail Cases) [IHCS (Frail Cases)] 

Enhanced Home and Community Care Services (EHCCS) / Integrated Home Care Services (Frail Cases) [IHCS (Frail Cases)] are home-based community care services providing a range of care and support services to frail elderly persons aged 60 or above living in the community and who are assessed and recommended for Community Care Services or Residential Care Services under the Standardised Care Need Assessment Mechanism for Elderly Services. The services aim at facilitating service users to continue ageing in place for as long as possible and maintaining their optimal level of functioning, while providing various kinds of support and assistance to carers.

Under the subvented community care service, you can only choose either subvented day care service or Enhanced Home and Community Care Services. 

There is the assessment before the applicant to queue and get in to the service. You can reach the DECCs/NECs in your service boundary for further information. You may find the information of service boundaries from the SWD website below:

The service areas of respective DECCs and NECs

For the elderly who stays in the hospital meanwhile, you may contact medical social worker for further detail on applying Enhanced Home and Community Care Services (EHCCS).

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

The source of information is provided by the Social Welfare Department