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Mar 2017 - Jul 2017

Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project - Live Better, Love with Care

District:Kwun Tong

Organisation:
Hong Kong Christian Service

Key components:
  • Conduct talks and visits on age-friendly home design for elderly people to review home safety and home maintenance problems, as well as introduce the interior design concept of an elderly home. 
  • Train elderly people to become ambassadors and liaise with home maintenance companies in the district to provide information of onsite services and discounts for elderly people.
  • Youngsters to conduct home visits to elderly singletons and understand their needs of home design and share information of home maintenance services.
  • Organise workshops for young generation and elderly ambassadors to exchange views on age-friendly home design, and build models to conclude and demonstrate their opinions.
  • Organise exhibition to showcase the programme achievements, in order to enhance the public awareness on the concept of age-friendly city.

AFC domains:
Housing
Respect & Social Inclusion
Communication & Information
Number of direct beneficiaries:538 people

Approved funding:$ 103,959

Initiated and funded by:

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Project partners:

  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • The University of Hong Kong
  • Lingnan University
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Jockey Club Institute of Ageing
  • Sau Po Centre on Ageing
  • Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies
  • Research Centre for Gerontology and Family Studies
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