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Apr 2018 - Nov 2018

Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project - Senior Buddies! How Are You?

District：Kwun Tong

Organisation：The Mental Health Association of Hong Kong Integrated Community Centre for Mental Wellness Jockey Club Amity Place Kwun Tong South

Key components：
  • Recruit and train the elderly and ex-mentally ill persons to become AFC Ambassadors, and equip them with the skills of visiting the elderly with mental or physical illnesses. Senior volunteers will become instructors, teaching other volunteers to produce mini handcrafts and food for distributing to the families visited, with an aim to strengthen the self-confidence of elderly people.
  • Conduct home visits to a total of 80 households with older people with mental or physical illnesses, promoting healthy lifestyle and active ageing, and organise a large-scale volunteer activity to visit the elderly who stay in the day care service centres in the district and arrange group activities to enhance interaction between the older people and volunteers.
  • Set up promotional booths in public housing estates in the district to distribute leaflets of elderly mental health, introduce relevant community resources, collect greeting cards from community members / elderly people, conduct mental health tests, and provide referral services for the elderly with obvious signs of depression to related units for follow-up.
  • Provide different interest classes for older people with less connection with the society to encourage them to reach out to the community and boost their self-confidence.
  • Organise a closing ceremony and invite elderly beneficiaries to share their takeaways, and promote care for the elderly, active ageing and age-friendliness.

AFC domains：
Community Support & Health Services
Respect & Social Inclusion
Social Participation
Number of direct beneficiaries：1,253 people

Approved funding：$200,480

Activity Highlight Video (Chinese version only):

Activity Highlights of “Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project - Senior Buddies! How Are You?”
(Provided by The Mental Health Association of Hong Kong Integrated Community Centre for Mental Wellness Jockey Club Amity Place Kwun Tong South)
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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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