Prof Alice CHONG, Research Professor of the Felizberta Lo Padilla Tong School of Social Sciences, Saint Francis University (SFU), was interviewed by RTHK programme 'HK2000' on 6 November 2025 and explained the content and outcome of the Caregiver Support Project. She pointed out that the Project is able to help caregivers identifying their needs and resources, in order to enhance their ability and relief their burden.
SFU held the 'Milestones & Visions: Caregiver Support Project Symposium 2025' on 5 November. Over 300 distinguished guests and senior management from the social welfare sector, including representatives from nine collaborating organisations, charity foundations, government bodies, academic and healthcare professionals have attended, leading to a new chapter of local elderly care service development.
The Caregiver Support Project expansion phase was jointly launched by SFU, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and the Simon K Y Lee Foundation since 2023, in partnership with nine social welfare organisations. This cross-sector collaboration promotes two evidence-based professional intervention models—the Caregiver Support Model (CSM) and the Psycho-education Program on Empowerment (PPE). Utilising the Caregiver Needs and Resources Assessment (CNA) tool, it comprehensively identifies the 5 types of Needs and 7 types of Resources of caregivers to gain a multidimensional understanding of their circumstances. Since the kick-off of its initial phase in 2019, the project has trained over 60 seed social workers and caregiver mentors, deploying these tools to support more than a thousand caregivers across nine social welfare organisations.
The interview is in Chinese version only
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