:Personal Emergency Link
{{Short description|Healthcare service in Hong Kong}}
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{{Main|Health in Hong Kong}}
The Personal Emergency Link Service (PE Link; {{zh|t=一線通平安鐘}}) was established by the {{ill|Senior Citizen Home Safety Association|zh|長者安居協會}} to launch a 24-hour personal emergency link to help the needy in Hong Kong.{{cite book |last=Chan |first=Emily Ying Yang |date=2019 |title=Climate Change and Urban Health: The Case of Hong Kong as a Subtropical City |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5mwPEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA105 |location=Abingdon, Oxon |publisher=Routledge |via=Google Books |page=105 |isbn=978-1-138-38513-9 |accessdate=2025-05-04 }}{{cite news |last1=Lai |first1=Claudia KY |last2=Chung |first2=Jenny CC |last3=Leung |first3=Natalie KL |last4=Wong |first4=Jimmy CT |last5=Mak |first5=Diana PS |date=2010-09-24 |title=A survey of older Hong Kong people's perceptions of telecommunication technologies and telecare devices |journal=Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare |volume=16 |issue=8 |doi=10.1258/jtt.2010.0909 }}
Background
Amidst an unforeseen extended cold wave in February 1996, more than a hundred unattended elderly who lived alone died. In response, the Association were dedicated to render emergency relief and total care service to all elderly and chronic invalids by setting up the PE Link.{{cite journal |last1=Feng |first1=Chen |last2=Yip |first2=Paul SF |date=2015-08-13 |title=The influence of cold weather on the usage of emergency link calls: a case study in Hong Kong |journal=BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making |volume=15 |doi=10.1186/s12911-015-0191-1 |doi-access=free |id={{ProQuest|1780138629}} |pmid=26590158 }} PE Link was created in 1996.{{cite news |last=Cheng |first=Albert |author-link=Albert Cheng (politician) |date=2012-12-28 |title=Opinion {{Pipe}} Unscrupulous firms' substandard emergency services put elderly at risk |url=https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1113654/unscrupulous-firms-substandard-emergency-services-put |newspaper=South China Morning Post |accessdate=2025-05-04 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/2025.05.04-085107/https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1113654/unscrupulous-firms-substandard-emergency-services-put |archivedate=2025-05-04 }}
References
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External links
- [https://www.schsa.org.hk/tc/care-on-call-service-introduction/coc-wpel Official website]
Category:Public health and safety in Hong Kong
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