Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project - Cross-generation Age-friendly Exercise Plan

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Sep 2017 - Feb 2018

District：Kowloon City

Organisation：Hong Kong Family Welfare Society Senior Citizen Centre (Kowloon City)

Key components：

Recruit young people aged 12-25 and young-olds aged 50 or above to become AFC Ambassadors to serve the elderly in need in the district.
Provide training to AFC Ambassadors, including elastic band exercise workshops offered by physiotherapists, hand acupressure workshops conducted by Chinese medicine practitioners, and elderly communication skills taught by social workers.
Conduct home visits for at least four times by AFC Ambassadors to hidden elderly, elderly singletons or doubletons, and organise “Age-friendly Sports Day” in sports centres in the district to encourage the elderly to utilise the community facilities.
Distribute “Age-friendly Exercise Leaflets” to the community by AFC Ambassadors, who also share the programme learnings and achievements and promote the message of healthy living to the elderly in the community on the “Age-friendly Sharing Day”.

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Sep 2017 - Jan 2018

Sep 2017 - Feb 2018

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