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Care in the GBA (Nansha). Additionally, it has comprehensive on-site residential care or home
launched the 2024 Pilot Project in the Nationwide visit services. This pioneering effort in national
Standardization of Cross-border Elderly Care elderly care infrastructure includes providing
Services by Elderly Care Organizations to foster subsidies to both profit-making and non-profit
mutually beneficial, collaborative and synergistic organizations run by non-state operators,
developments in cross-border elderly care services. aiming to encourage active social participation
Furthermore, Guangzhou has encouraged local and resources allocation in establishing elderly
health care providers to participate in the Pilot care organizations.
Scheme for Senior Health Care Vouchers in the
Greater Bay Area, facilitating the recognition of • Guangzhou has expanded the
Hong Kong’s Health Care Voucher Scheme for use establishment of community-based, home-based
by the elderly of Hong Kong in Mainland hospitals. elderly care facilities, with a focus on the diet, living
environment, and leisure activities of the elderly.
• Guangzhou has stepped up its This effort is part of the “housekeeping + elderly
commitment in elderly care facilities and promoted care” initiative, aimed at jumpstarting the provision
the establishment of elderly care services of such services. Additionally, Guangzhou has
organizations integrated within the community. developed an overall plan to integrate the facilities
Throughout Guangzhou’s metropolitan area, the and resources required to organize activities for
government has promoted the construction of the elderly, thereby creating a network for elderly
numerous elderly care organizations offering care services within the community.

Table 1 Recently issued documents and policies concerning cross-border elderly care in Guangzhou

No. Document/policy Issuing authority Date of issue

1 Basic Elderly Care Services List of Guangzhou Guangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau 17 July 2024
(2024 Version)

2 Overall Plan to Promote Comprehensive Cooperation The State Council 6 June 2022
among Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao by Further
Deepening Opening-up in Nansha District of Guangzhou

3 Implementation Plan for Enhancing the Establishment of The Elderly Care Services Joint June 2020
Community-Based Elderly Care Organizations Working Conference of Guangzhou

4 The Long-term Layout Plan for Guangzhou’s Elderly Care Guangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau 6 June 2019
Services Organizations (2019-2025)

5 Trial Measures for Guangzhou’s Support of Social Forces Guangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau 1 June 2019
to Participate in Community- and Home- Based Elderly
Care Services

6 Notice on Adjusting the Subsidies for Profit-Making Guangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau, 15 March 2019
Elderly Care Services Organizations Operated by Non- Guangzhou Municipal Finance Bureau
State Owned Enterprises and Related Matters

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