Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project - Capacity Building for Older People through Photovoice (Sham Shui Po)

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Jun 2018 - Dec 2018

District：Sham Shui Po

Organisation：Institute of Active Ageing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Key components：

Organise training workshops to teach ambassadors the concept of age-friendliness, the skills to assess community environments and age-friendly shops, the rationales and techniques of "Photo Voice", as well as the interviewing skills with shop staff through role play.
Conduct community visit for ambassadors to explore and identify age-friendly shops in the community through interviews and using their mobile phones to record the physical environment. Ambassadors will be invited to have group discussion to deliberate the age-friendly areas and room for improvement and offer suggestions.
Organise community talk and exhibition to promote the age-friendly messages and showcase the observations of the community visit conducted by ambassadors.
Produce community map and booklet by compiling the voices of the ambassadors and the achievements of the programme, to enhance the understanding of other community members on the concerns of elderly people on physical environments and their need of age-friendly shops.

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Jun 2018 - Dec 2018

Jun 2018 - Dec 2018

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