# Vacancy Enquiry System for Emergency Placement for the Elderly

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- ID: ` hk-swd-elderly-list-of-ep `
- 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: 1
- Updated: 2026-02-05T17:08:51.658053
- Update frequency (publisher metadata): Daily
- Harvest started: 2026-10-20T22:31:00.105Z
- Licence: Not stated
- Source: [Official metadata record](<https://data.gov.hk/en-data/api/3/action/package_show?id=hk-swd-elderly-list-of-ep>)

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## Description

Vacancy Enquiry System for Emergency Placement for the Elderly

## Resources

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

### [Vacancy Enquiry System for Emergency Placement for the Elderly](<https://www.ves.swd.gov.hk/sites/rrpvs-swd/files/ep_list.xml>)

- Resource ID: ` c18e4870-8431-4c53-88e9-9eb48f3313fd `
- Format: XML
- Language: en,zh-Hant
- Updated: 2026-02-05T17:08:51.668306
- API flag (publisher metadata): N
- Original URL: ` https://www.ves.swd.gov.hk/sites/rrpvs-swd/files/ep_list.xml `

The XML file contains information including the agency name, unit name, district, address, telephone number, fax number, email address, type of residential care homes for the elderly, capacity and commencement date of the places as well as the gender of service users\.

## Specifications (source links)

### Publisher documentation

- [Data dictionary](<https://www.swd.gov.hk/datagovhk/elderly/list-of-ep-DataDic.pdf>) — source-linked; Dataset: data\_dictionary
- [Resource schema](<https://ves.swd.gov.hk/sites/rrpvs-swd/files/ep_list.xsd>) — source-linked; Resource Vacancy Enquiry System for Emergency Placement for the Elderly (c18e4870-8431-4c53-88e9-9eb48f3313fd): schema

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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).