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May 2018 - Nov 2018

Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project - Your Healthy Community

District:Kowloon City

Organisation:Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Wong Cho Tong District Elderly Community Centre

Key components:
1. Roving health promotion activities:
  • Develop a resources booklet by AFC Ambassadors introducing the community health services, including the services provided by various medical organisations in the district, information for elderly carers, etc.
  • Distribute the resources booklets to elderly centres in the district, patient resource centres in the hospitals, and the users of Integrated Home Care Services or Enhanced Home Care Services.
  • Organise sharing sessions in District Elderly Community Centres and Neighbourhood Elderly Centres to introduce the resources of health services in the community.

2. Talks and visits: organise health educational talks at hospitals for participants to learn about the diagnosis procedures, age-friendly designs in the hospitals and the information of dementia and end-of-life education, as well as introduce the resources booklet on community health services and arrange visits to hospital facilities and health information stations in the district.

AFC domains:
Community Support & Health Services
Communication & Information
Social Participation
Number of direct beneficiaries:1,200 people

Approved funding:$169,700

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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