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Apr 2017 - Jun 2017

Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project - Walking Kwun Tong for Active Ageing



District:Kwun Tong

Organisation:
Christian Family Service Centre

Key components:
  • Form "Walking Kwun Tong for Active Ageing" group by young olds who will conduct interviews with community leaders and different stakeholders to collect their views on the understanding of Kwun Tong and age-friendly community.
  • Organise focus groups to collect views from community members on the landmarks. Invite people of different ages (including students and elderly people) to conduct visits to these landmarks and design 3 walking routes of "Active Ageing in Kwun Tong", to encourage elderly people to visit the community.
  • Develop a mobile application to introduce the walking routes and invite the programme participants to teach elderly people how to use the mobile application.
  • Share the programme achievements to community members through publications and briefing sessions.

AFC domains:
Communication & Information
Respect & Social Inclusion
Number of direct beneficiaries:3,000 people

Approved funding:$ 250,000

Activity Highlight Video (Chinese version only):

The video is provided by Christian Family Service Centre.
 

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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