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Strategies for Creating an Age-friendly City: Book


Strategies for Creating an Age-friendly City: Book

Status: Completed

Hong Kong China
Print this page City population: 7413000Practice started in 2023

Summary

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust has partnered with Hong Kong’s four gerontology research institutes to implement the Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project (“JCAFC Project”) since 2015. The JCAFC Project aimed to promote an age-friendly culture in all 18 districts of Hong Kong. A unique model of bottom-up, district-based, multi-sectoral collaboration and evidence-based approach were adopted in building Hong Kong to an age-friendly city (“AFC”) which can cater for the needs of different ages. The book “Strategies for Creating an Age-friendly City: Hong Kong as a case study” thoroughly chronicles the strategies adopted by Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project in advancing age-friendly city movement in Hong Kong and its social impact, explores the origins of the concept of an age-friendly city and its development globally and in Hong Kong, as well as provides recommendations for the future advancement of age-friendly cities.

Website: https://jcafc-port.hk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Age-Friendly-City-Case-Book_final-for-online-version_compressed.pdf

Key facts

Main target group: Both younger and older people (i.e. intergenerational)

Sector(s): Urban development

Desired outcome for older people:
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Contact details

Name: Lee, Richard

Email address: richardlee@cuhk.edu.hk

Preferred language(s): English

Age-friendly practice in detail (click to expand):

Engaging the wider community

Project lead: Research institution

Older people’s involvement: Older people were not directly involved

Moving forward

Has the impact of this age-friendly practice been analysed: No

Do you plan to evaluate your age-friendly practice? No

Looking back

Challenges:
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