Housing Authority Rolls Out Elderly-Friendly Community and Gerontech Measures
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On 5 November 2026, Deputy Secretary for Housing Victor Tai Sheung-shing summed up the debate on the motion "Ageing in Place as the Foundation" in the Legislative Council, setting out the Housing Authority and Housing Department's progress on elderly-friendly communities and gerontechnology. He said the Housing Authority had introduced about 330 operators in estates with a higher proportion of elderly residents, providing rehabilitation, medical and community services, and had set up parking spaces for mobile service stations in 82 public housing estates. The Housing Department carries out about 5,800 adaptation and modification works on flats for elderly persons or persons with disabilities each year. In addition, the authorities are studying the application of a home fall sensing system in public rental housing flats, and have installed fall detectors for about 200 singleton or all-elderly households.
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- 政府新聞處·新聞公報房屋局副局長戴尚誠立法會總結發言 談長者友善社區及樂齡科技入屋
房屋局副局長戴尚誠在立法會總結「居家安老為本」議案時表示，房委會已在長者人口比例較高的屋邨引入約330個商戶提供復康、醫療及社區服務，並在82個公共屋邨設流動服務站停泊位置。房屋署每年進行約5,800宗長者或殘疾人士單位調適及改裝工程，另正研究公屋單位應用家居跌倒感測系統，並已為約200戶獨居或全長者住戶安裝跌倒偵測器。
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