The School of Nursing and Health Studies presented a research report on holistic residential care at the Right Care, Right Time Conference, which was jointly organized by Precious Blood Children’s Village, Evangel Children’s Home and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd on 20 November 2020. The conference was linked to an eponymous project — also known as ‘2Rs’ — that offers holistic care services to residents of children and youth homes through multidisciplinary collaboration (the ‘right care’) at an early stage (the ‘right time’).

The research report confirmed the effectiveness of the 2Rs project in improving residents’ health-related quality of life and in addressing their behavioural problems. Apart from suggesting that holistic care services be extended to all children and youth homes in Hong Kong, the report also gave three recommendations: (1) enhancing early identification and intervention of psychosocial issues; (2) introducing a lifestyle modification programme; and (3) introducing nurses in residential care homes.