长者服务券须设监管制度.PDFVIP

文匯 逢星期三、五出版　傳真：2873 1451 電郵：edu@ 2012年2月17日(星期五) A28 責任編輯：楊偉聰　版面設計：吳景強 教育 文江學海文江學海文江學海 長者服務券須設監管制度 Regulatory system is needed for community care service voucher for the elderly 港府計劃推行為期4年 The HKSAR government plans to run the Community excessively long waiting list. 的「長者社區照顧服務 Care Service Voucher for the Elderly pilot scheme for a Under the circumstances, 券」試驗計劃，每名受 period of four years. Under the scheme, each eligible many elderly people resort to 逢周五見報 助長者每月可獲5,000元 elderly person will receive cash vouchers of HK$5,000 a queuing up for a really long 的服務券，但須視乎其 month but depending on his or her household income, has time to get a place in a 家庭收入狀況，自行承擔當中500元至2,500元不等的 to pay HK$500 to HK$2,500 of the charges for the subvented residential home of 金額。計劃透過「錢跟老人走」的概念，讓有需要的 services used. Implementing the concept of money a better quality. The four-year 長者可選擇接受上門家居服務及日間護理服務，並藉 following the user, the scheme allows needy elderly pilot scheme of community 此推動社區照顧服務的發展，值得肯定。不過，每月 people to choose from home-based care and day care care service voucher gives 每人資助額約5,000元，是一筆不小的數額。因此， services, and in this way the development of community direct subsidy to those 政府須制定一套質素監管保證機制，既確保服務質 care service can be fostered. The idea is worth elderly people with long- 素，又避免資助長者的公帑白白送入缺乏質素的承辦