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Apr 2017 - Jun 2017

2017 Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project - 10 Styles of Kowloon City Fitness Exercises

District:Kowloon City

Organisation:
Building Healthy Kowloon City Association

Key components:
  • Professional instructors and trained demonstrators to teach the older people in around 5-10 elderly homes to do the 10-Style Fitness Exercises by and form a fitness exercise team in each elderly home. Around 100 elderly people from the fitness exercise teams will take part in performance.
  • Produce 500 copies of DVD on the 10-Style Fitness Exercises, covering the steps of fitness exercise demonstrated by the professional instructors and demonstrators and the highlights of the performance of the fitness exercise teams. The DVDs will be distributed to elderly homes and community centres free of charge to encourage the elderly to do more exercises.

AFC domains:
Community Support & Health Services
Social Participation
Number of direct beneficiaries:100 people

Approved funding:$ 116,700

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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