Age-friendly Community and the Decade of Healthy Ageing
Resources
The Institute has developed a vast variety of resources and widely distributed to cross-sectoral stakeholders (i.e. policy makers public sector and other community stakeholders) and the public, in raising their awareness on age-friendly issues and facilitating them taking forward the age-friendly city campaign in the long-run. In the following sections, we broadly categorize these resources according to their media formats (i.e., publication vs. video), and respectively give a brief summary on their contents.
Happy Ageing – Eight domains of an Age-friendly City
The videos introduces the eight domains of an age-friendly city and shares age-friendly good practices by domains, aiming to promote the implementation and development of age-friendly initiatives, encourage community participation and cultivate age-friendly culture in building a sustainable age-friendly city.
- ▶ Happy Ageing – Eight domains of an Age-friendly City Housing (Episode 1)
- ▶ Happy Ageing – Eight domains of an Age-friendly City Housing (Episode 2)
- ▶ Happy Ageing – Eight domains of an Age-friendly City Housing (Episode 3)
- ▶ Happy Ageing – Eight domains of an Age-friendly City Housing (Episode 4)
- ▶ Happy Ageing – Eight domains of an Age-friendly City Housing (Episode 5)
- ▶ Happy Ageing – Eight domains of an Age-friendly City Housing (Episode 6)
- ▶ Happy Ageing – Eight domains of an Age-friendly City Housing (Episode 7)
- ▶ Happy Ageing – Eight domains of an Age-friendly City Housing (Episode 8)
Exercises at home for the elderly
Regular exercise helps prevent frailty. This series of videos demonstrate 4-step training suitable for older people, namely (1) warm up exercise, (2) training exercise (i.e. “resistance training” to train muscles, “balance training” to reduce fall risk, and “circuit training” to enhance muscles building and cardio fitness), (3) cool down exercise, and (4) stretching exercise, as well as introduce the safety tips. The videos were demonstrated by the certified physical trainer and older people who participated in Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project – Active Ageing Programme 2020.
- ▶ Regular Training to Reduce Frality
- ▶ 4-Steps Training
- ▶ Training Safety Issues
- ▶ Warm-up and Cool down exercise
- ▶ Static Stretching Exercise
- ▶ Upper Resistance Training (Beginner Level)
- ▶ Lower Resistance Training (Beginner Level)
- ▶ Balance Training (Beginner Level)
- ▶ Circuit Training (Beginner Level)
- ▶ Upper Resistance Training (Intermediate Level)
- ▶ Lower Resistance Training (Intermediate Level)
- ▶ Balance Training (Intermediate Level)
- ▶ Circuit Training (Intermediate Level)
- ▶ Upper Resistance Training (Advanced Level)
- ▶ Lower Resistance Training (Advanced Level)
- ▶ Balance Training (Advanced Level)
- ▶ Circuit Training (Advanced Level)
Healthy diet
Demonstrated by dietitian and older people who participated in Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project – Active Ageing Programme 2020, the videos introduce the knowledge of nutrition and diet for strengthening bones, muscles, brain and immune system as well as cooking methods suitable for the elderly.
