The Perception of Older and Other Stakeholders on Long-Term Care Services with Higher Individual Autonomy: A Qualitative Study in Hong Kong and Analysis of Official Data During 2004-2016

The modern long-term care system is facing a growing demand for better tailored and more responsive care; choice and flexibility of care users has become one of major goals of the system. There is a trend that public-funded long-term care systems in the OECD countries opted for providing entitlements to service users in form of cash or other forms of personal budgets for them to choose and purchase the care services that suit their needs. The Hong Kong government is also providing vouchers for older adults to choose community and residential care services.