Age-friendly Community and the Decade of Healthy Ageing

Age-friendly Port - AFC Online Resource Platform

To facilitate the long term sustainability of AFC synergy, an online resource platform “Age-friendly Port” has been developed by the Institute under the JCAFC Project. It covers contents on different topics, including district profiles, good practices in Hong Kong and worldwide, and research findings, and provides useful resources of all kinds for the elderly, members of the community and different stakeholders to spur collaboration and advancement in building Hong Kong into an age-friendly city to cater for the needs of all ages.

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Age-friendly Community and the Decade of Healthy Ageing

Knowledge transfer

Other than research and evaluation, the Institute also took up an important role to transfer the AFC knowledge to the community and raise public awareness on age-friendly issues. The specific works of knowledge transfer include establishing an online resource platform “Age-friendly Port” under the JCAFC Project, providing training to older people and equip them with knowledge and skills on promoting AFC, sharing the findings of age-friendly assessments to districts stakeholders (e.g. attending the meetings of District Councils), as well as organizing public education activities to raise public knowledge and awareness on age-friendly issues (e.g. press conference, public forums).

The Institute also participates in the ‘Age-friendly Environments Knowledge and Action Hubs’ (AFE K&A Hub) developed by the World Health Organisation to bridge this gap between making and using knowledge on healthy ageing. It joins the AFE K&A Hub on urban and territorial planning to examine its role to make cities and communities more age-friendly. For more details please visit WHO’s website at here.

Age-friendly Community and the Decade of Healthy Ageing

Age-friendliness Assessment

Introduction

In tandem with the vision to make Hong Kong an age-friendly city, the Institute has parcitpated in the Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project since 2015, which is led by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust in partnership with Hong Kong's four gerontology research institutes to develop a common framework to measure the age-friendliness of 18 districts of Hong Kong and identify areas of improvement.

The Institute was responsible for conducting baseline assessment and final assessment on the level of age-friendliness in five local districts, namely Kwai Tsing, North, Sai Kung, Sha Tin and Tai Po. Based on the framework of eight domains of an Age-friendly City (AFC) set out by WHO, the studies aimed to reach out to community members across diverse socio-demographic backgrounds and understanding their views through both quantitative (questionnaire survey) and qualitative (focus group interview) approaches.

The baseline assessment report and final assessment report were compiled for each district to highlight the current situations of age-friendliness in the community, and identify strengths and weaknesses for each AFC domain. Relevant recommendations were made to guide the District Councils and community stakeholders to develop a three year action plan in creating age-friendly community.

Based on the final assessment findings on age-friendliness, the Institute further developed four thematic reports to provide detailed exploration on the case of Hong Kong regarding four domains of an age-friendly city, namely Outdoor spaces and buildings, Transportation, Communication and information, as well as Community support and health services. Each report highlights the current situations of age-friendliness of the domain and its age-friendly policies and measures in Hong Kong, and proposes recommendations to the Government and other relevant parties in implementing age-friendly initiatives.

Research Report on Age-friendliness Assessment

Thematic reports on age-friendly city domains
Final Assessment Report on Age-friendliness
Baseline Assessment Report on Age-friendliness
Cross-district Report on Age-friendliness