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Poster presentation at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics World Congress 2022
Launch of Age-friendly Port – online resource platform for providing useful resources of all kinds on age-friendly city
International Conference on “Age-friendly Cities 15 Years On: Origins and Best Practices Worldwide and in Hong Kong"
Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of Age-friendly City initiatives on building age-friendly environment
Publication of four Thematic Reports on Age-friendly City Domains
Publication of Age-friendly City Guidebook
Publication of Happy Ageing Booklet – Eight domains of an Age-friendly City (Chinese only)
Better understand the association between social gradient of self-rated health in older people and sense of community
Significance of the Hong Kong Quality of Life Index for measuring the wellbeing of older people
Online videos of Exercises at home for the elderly
Online videos of Healthy diet
Booklet of Healthy ageing – Healthy recipes and information (Chinese version only)
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Age-friendly Community and the Decade of Healthy Ageing
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Significance of the Hong Kong Quality of Life Index for measuring the wellbeing of older people
Using a multidimensional index of quality of life (i.e., The Hong Kong Elder Quality of Life Index), our researchers documented the changes in the quality of life of older people in Hong Kong from 2017 - 2020. Improvement in well-being was in tandem with the implementation of age-friendly policies and programs, whereas deterioration was marked during the period of social unrest and pandemic. The index is a timely and valid tool to monitor the well-being of older people, informing policies to maintain well-being of older people. Find out more >
Better understand the association between social gradient of self-rated health in older people and sense of community
Our researchers found a social gradient of poor self-rated health by measures of socioeconomic status including monthly income, educational attainment and financial sufficiency among older people in Hong Kong. There is also evidence supporting a stronger gradient in educational attainment among those with higher sense of community. Find out more >
Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of Age-friendly City initiatives on building age-friendly environment
Our researchers, in collaboration with other researchers from three local universities, evaluated the impact of the AFC initiatives on the perceived friendliness in Hong Kong, using a bottom-up, mixed-method approach. Converging findings from surveys and focus group interviews indicated significant improvements in multiple domains of perceived age-friendliness in Hong Kong. Find out more >
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Better understand the readiness for implementing
the WHO ICOPE Approach
Our researchers found that the stage of ICOPE implementation readiness was “initiating”. The social care settings were able to provide a context to engage older adults, education on general health and disease prevention, and interventions for promoting healthy ageing. The study also identified barriers and facilitators to ICOPE implementation.
Abstract
Although integrated care has been considered a key strategy in reforming health systems around the world, it seems hard to realise in practice, particularly in the part of medical social integration. Worse still, little is known about the capacity of social care professionals who implement it, or their perceived roles and responsibilities, as well as the barriers and facilitators that stakeholders from the health and social sectors identify as factors affecting the ICOPE implementation process. Therefore, the present study was performed to probe into these issues. Data were collected from an online survey based on the WHO ICOPE scorecard (N = 34), and focus groups with policy makers, managers, health and social care professionals (N = 47). Inductive analyses were performed in accordance with the service and system levels within the WHO ICOPE implementation framework. While the findings from the scorecard survey highlight the gap in actualizing the ICOPE approach within the existing social services and care structures, we found support for a model of integrated care underpinned by the WHO ICOPE approach. Factors that may hinder and facilitate ICOPE implementation include workforce capacity-building, coordinated networks and partnerships, and financial mechanisms. This finding can help inform subsequent actions that further support health and social care advancement and collaboration, and the implementation of the ICOPE approach.
The paper Assessing the Readiness for Implementing the World Health Organization’s ICOPE Approach in Hong Kong: Perspectives from Social Care and Policy Stakeholders can be read in full on the The Journal of Frailty & Aging journal website.
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Older people are living longer than before,
but are they living healthier?
There is no doubt that people from countries all over of the world are living longer, but there is little evidence to suggest that older people today are living healthier than their predecessors did at the same age. This is a major cause of concern for many governments around the world because if the added years of people today are dominated by chronic diseases and functional disabilities, there will be negative implications (e.g., extended treatment for older people which increases the health and social care cost to society). Please click here to continue reading
The paper Trajectories of frailty among Chinese older people in Hong Kong between 2001 and 2012: An Age-period-cohort Analysis can be read in full on the Age and Ageing journal website.