JC Community eHealth Care Project

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.

JC Community eHealth Care Project

HiEggo Interview: What is Sarcopenia (Cantonese only)
健康旦專訪: 什麼是肌少症?

Watch the interview now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFfWKQclMIo

JC Community eHealth Care Project

Online training for performing
health screening and targeted interventions

We are pleased to inform you that the online training for performing health screening and targeted interventions is now open for enrolment. Please refer to the below details:

Date:	29 March 2023
Time:	14:30-15:30
Format:	Zoom
Content:	To strengthen the capacity of NGO staff, volunteers, and family caregivers to conduct health screening and support older people to maintain functional ability; To build up older people's capacity to conduct self-screening, interpret the readings of the screening questionnaire, and determine how to maintain functional capacity in later life; To empower the NGO staff to adopt and implement the multi-component intervention for promoting functional ability of older people.
Registration:	Click here