111.         The SWD launched in March 2011 a three-year pilot scheme to provide a package of home-based care services for persons with severe disabilities who are living in the community and on the waiting list for subvented residential care services. We will regularise the service in March 2014 and extend it to persons with severe disabilities in all the districts in Hong Kong, irrespective of whether they are on the waiting list for residential care services or not.

112.         Furthermore, the CCF plans to roll out a new programme to subsidise persons with severe physical disabilities from low-income families in renting respiratory support medical equipment. Meanwhile, the SWD and the HA are studying the feasibility of introducing a case management-oriented service programme to assist non-CSSA recipients with severe physical disabilities who require constant nursing care. The programme is designed to enable them to live in the community by relieving their financial burden in terms of medical equipment, consumable items and care services.

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