[Journal of Aging & Social Policy] COVID-19 and Long-Term Care Policy for Older People in Hong Kong

Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 18 May 2020

Terry Lum, Cheng Shi, Gloria Wong & Kayla Wong

Highlights:

• Densely population and internationally connected, Hong Kong managed to contain the spread of COVID-19 without imposing a total lockdown of the city.

• Lessons from the SARS epidemic in 2003 have been applied to contain COVID-19.

• Early on, the Government directed residential care homes to continue as normal but provided resources for preventive and hygiene practices.

• A visiting doctor service to residential care homes continued to provide non-urgent medical care to residents.

• These measures, together with population behavior changes, have successfully contained the spread of the COVID-19 in long-term care facilities.

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