In recent months, the outbreak of virus has certainly affected the moral of health care professionals in Hong Kong. They are the front line workers handling acute and non-acute cases everyday. Indeed, the professionalism of the health care staff proves to be well respected as they continue to work in a highly risky environment. It proves that the 'Caring Culture' has not changed despite the constant threat of cutting resources and staff in Hospital Authority hospitals.
In this issue, Lok and colleagues reviewed the "organizational culture in one of the regional hospitals" following the relocation in 1997. They have identified different components to contribute towards culture building within the hospital. They recommended staff's perception and feeling need to be reviewed on regular basis so that the gap between management and staff would be minimized.
Caring for a sick child requires special knowledge and skill. The qualitative study on parental experience and coping strategies in care of their children with Leukaemia shows that Chinese parents adopted mixed coping strategies. The authors further gave a critical analysis based on the critical theory. The study was done in Taiwan.
Elderly rehabilitation has been established for a number of years in Hong Kong. More evidence-based work has been produced to show the significance role of rehabilitation to elderly care on various aspects continues to influence the quality of life in elderly people in long term. The two examples presented in this issue demonstrate that day rehabilitation service and ward based rehabilitation programme for continence training were able to achieve the goals of enhancing the self-care and the quality of life in elderly people. It is important that the application of rehabilitation training is not limited to age. Elderly people are also entitled to have a full rehabilitation programme specially designed for them.
On behalf of the Editorial Members for 2001-2003, we wish this dark period would disappear soon. Wishing the front line workers who are combating with the virus to stay healthy so that they continue to serve for the people in need.
Issue Editors