Jockey Club Oral Health Programme for People with Dementia

Objective:

The programme provides free dental services for people with early dementia in order to slow down their progression of dementia by cultivating ability of self-maintaining dental hygiene.

Eligible Participatns:

People with early dementia

  • No age limit
  • No asset review required

Participants should fulfill all requiremnts below:

  • Provide proof of dementia
  • Self-care ability (can brush teeth by oneself)
  • Ability to communicate
  • Have more than 5 real teeth
  • Living in the community
  • Accompanied by family members/caregivers to see the dentist at Loving Smiles Special Care Dental Centre

Funded Items:

  • 3 times of free dental services within 9 months
  • Taxi fare (accountable)

Free Dental Services:

Dental checking, cleaning, filling, extraction, oral health inspection, fluoride treatment, full mouth X-ray

*Additional services are subject to additional charges

Objective:

The programme provides free dental services for people with dementia in order to slow down their progression of dementia by cultivating ability of self-maintaining dental hygiene.

Eligible Participatns:

People with Dementia or Parkinson

Participants should fulfill all requiremnts below:

  • Living in the community
  • Have 8 or above teeth
  • Provide confirmed proof
  • Receiving ‘Old Age Living Allowance’ (except for Parkinson’s applicants)

Funded Items:

  • Basic dental services
  • Round-trip taxi fare subsidies when you visit the clinic (maximum 2 reimbursements, maximum $500 each time, actual reimbursement)

Free Dental Services:

Dental checking, oral health inspection, fluoride treatment, full mouth X-ray cleaning, filling, extraction

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Common Symptoms of Early Dementia

  • Become forgetful, especially for things that just happened
  • Put something in the wrong place
  • Difficult to handile complex chores
  • Difficult to express and understand 
  • Emotional ups and downs, more prone to anxiety and temper tantrums

Relationship between dementia and oral health

Feedback from Participants

Enquiry

Enquiry Hotline:9100 3926

Adress:Shops A202-208, 2/F, Cho Yiu Centre, Cho Yiu Chuen, Kwai Chung, N.T., HK

Oral Health Talk in Elderly Centre

We are seeking to cooperate with various community/elderly centers to organize the “Oral Health Talk” . We wish to share with the elders and caregivers how to maintain oral health by themselves, so as to prevent and slow down cognitive impairment deterioration.

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