﻿# List of Day Care Centres/Units for the Elderly

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- ID: ` hk-swd-elderly-list-of-de-dcu `
- Publisher: [Social Welfare Department](/publishers/d545faf5-0f72-4606-9150-f11714c3e73d/) · [Markdown](/publishers/d545faf5-0f72-4606-9150-f11714c3e73d/index.md)
- Categories: [Community and Social Welfare](/categories/social-welfare/) · [Markdown](/categories/social-welfare/index.md)
- Tags: Not stated
- Resources: 4
- Updated: 2023-10-04T16:33:40.396817
- Update frequency (publisher metadata): As and when data is updated
- Harvest started: 2026-10-21T22:30:56.999Z
- Licence: Not stated
- Source: [Official metadata record](<https://data.gov.hk/en-data/api/3/action/package_show?id=hk-swd-elderly-list-of-de-dcu>)

Harvest started is the source harvest start associated with this record, not its precise retrieval time. Updated is an upstream metadata claim.

## Description

List of Day Care Centres/ Units for the Elderly\.  The dataset provides information of name of operating organisation, name of service unit, address, telephone and fax numbers capacity, email address and commencement date\.  
https://www\.swd\.gov\.hk/en/pubsvc/elderly/cat\_commcare/daycarecen/

## Resources

These are upstream resource links from metadata. Resource contents and endpoint availability have not been verified here.

### [Day Care Units for the Elderly attached to Residential Care Home for the Elderly (CSDI Portal)](<https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?datasetId=swd_rcd_1633501733005_6176>)

- Resource ID: ` 9bebe67b-5c6e-4857-adf1-de8f500e2ada `
- Format: API
- Language: en,zh-Hant
- Updated: 2023-09-17T16:32:03.291438
- API flag (publisher metadata): Y
- Original URL: ` https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?datasetId=swd_rcd_1633501733005_6176 `

Day Care Centres/Units for the Elderly \(DEs/DCUs\) provide centre\-based community care services, such as day time care, rehabilitation exercises and social activities, to frail elderly persons aged 60 or above living in the community and who are assessed and recommended for Community Care Services or Residential Care Services under the Standardised Care Need Assessment Mechanism for Elderly Services, including those suffering from dementia\. The services aim at helping service users maintain an optimal level of functioning, improve their quality of life and age in place in a familiar community\. They also provide various kinds of support and assistance to carers\.

### [List of Day Care Centres/Units for the Elderly](<https://www.swd.gov.hk/datagovhk/elderly/List-of-DE-DCU.csv>)

- Resource ID: ` b8ce4deb-f29a-4c36-9b99-60c491cb549a `
- Format: CSV
- Language: en,zh-Hant
- Updated: 2023-10-04T16:33:40.403201
- API flag (publisher metadata): N
- Original URL: ` https://www.swd.gov.hk/datagovhk/elderly/List-of-DE-DCU.csv `

The CSV file contains information of name of agency/centre, serving district, capacity, address, telephone number, fax number, email and service commencement date\. More information about the list of day care centres/ units for the elderly can be found at   
\[https://www\.swd\.gov\.hk/en/pubsvc/elderly/cat\_commcare/daycarecen/ \]

### [Day Care Centres for the Elderly (CSDI Portal)](<https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?datasetId=swd_rcd_1629267205235_421>)

- Resource ID: ` e3d909e3-75f2-40e1-bf9c-b2f6b036fc20 `
- Format: API
- Language: en,zh-Hant
- Updated: 2023-09-17T16:32:02.636618
- API flag (publisher metadata): Y
- Original URL: ` https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?datasetId=swd_rcd_1629267205235_421 `

Day Care Centres / Units for the Elderly \(DEs/DCUs\) provide centre\-based community care services, such as day time care, rehabilitation exercises and social activities, to frail elderly persons aged 60 or above living in the community and who are assessed and recommended for Community Care Services or Residential Care Services under the Standardised Care Need Assessment Mechanism for Elderly Services, including those suffering from dementia\. The services aim at helping service users maintain an optimal level of functioning, improve their quality of life and age in place in a familiar community\. They also provide various kinds of support and assistance to carers\.

### [District Elderly Community Centre cum Day Care Units for the Elderly (CSDI Portal)](<https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?datasetId=swd_rcd_1633501860637_42476>)

- Resource ID: ` f6f4848b-f1f5-452f-b801-0efc09a053a7 `
- Format: API
- Language: en,zh-Hant
- Updated: 2023-09-17T16:32:03.876037
- API flag (publisher metadata): Y
- Original URL: ` https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?datasetId=swd_rcd_1633501860637_42476 `

Day Care Centres/Units for the Elderly \(DEs/DCUs\) provide centre\-based community care services, such as day time care, rehabilitation exercises and social activities, to frail elderly persons aged 60 or above living in the community and who are assessed and recommended for Community Care Services or Residential Care Services under the Standardised Care Need Assessment Mechanism for Elderly Services, including those suffering from dementia\. The services aim at helping service users maintain an optimal level of functioning, improve their quality of life and age in place in a familiar community\. They also provide various kinds of support and assistance to carers\.

## Specifications (source links)

### Publisher documentation

- [Data dictionary](<https://www.swd.gov.hk/datagovhk/elderly/List-of-DE-DCU-DataDic.pdf>) — source-linked; Dataset: data\_dictionary

Original links supplied in publisher metadata. A source link does not mean that document content is hosted, parsed or verified here; any hosted extraction and its review scope are listed separately below.


Upstream metadata associations only; these links do not validate individual resources or document sections. No extracted document body is hosted here.

## Document availability

Parsed specifications and data dictionaries: not available for this dataset. [Document availability](/documents.md).
