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Jul 2018 - Jan 2019

Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project - Active Ageing Programme 2018 (North)

District:North

Organisation:Jockey Club Institute of Ageing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Key components:
  • Train elderly people to be health ambassadors, and equip them with the ability of health self-management through providing trainings on physical well-being (e.g. muscle training, aerobic and stretching exercises), nutrition and dietary, age-friendliness on-site audit skills and age-friendly city concept.
  • Lead the health ambassadors to conduct on-site audit to assess the level of age-friendliness of selected fitness trails in the community and propose suggestions for improvement. Health ambassadors will produce videos to disseminate their observations during the on-site audit andsuggestions to the community members.
  • Organise information days to disseminate the message of healthy ageing and elderly health information and providing simple body check for the elderly in the community.

AFC domains:
Community Support & Health Services
Outdoor Spaces & Buildings
Respect & Social Inclusion
Social Participation
Number of direct beneficiaries:371 persons

Activity Highlights Video (Chinese version only):

Active Ageing Programme 2018 (North)
(Provided by CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing)

Initiated and funded by:

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Project partners:

  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • The University of Hong Kong
  • Lingnan University
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Jockey Club Institute of Ageing
  • Sau Po Centre on Ageing
  • Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies
  • Research Centre for Gerontology and Family Studies
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