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Chet Wing lives in a care facility for medium-level mentally disabiled people, but he doesn’t care for following the rues, or staying inside all the time. Ka Mui’s situation is not quite the same—she enjoys quite a bit of freedom, buying and cooking food, and is quite content, when she’s in her facility. Western countries abandoned large restrictive facilities for the disabled quite some time ago. Will Hong Kong follow suit?
中度弱智的歐卓榮不喜歡循規蹈矩,抗拒住在院舍。院舍的工作人員唯有盡量安排他喜歡的活動。輕度弱智的譚嘉敏入住的院舍較自由,但她仍然想回家居住。學者指出:弱智人士智商愈低,適應力愈差;居住宿舍時間愈長,心理壓力也愈大。他們住在院舍,行動受到很多限制,他們的人際關係與自理能力會逐漸變差。歐美國家早已放棄興建大型院舍,香港卻背道而馳。弱智人士入住宿舍,他們與家長都是逼於無奈,將來會不會有改變呢?