Exploring the age-friendliness of Hong Kong: opportunities, initiatives and challenges in an ageing Asian city
Exploring the age-friendliness of Hong Kong: opportunities, initiatives and challenges in an ageing Asian city
Chapter 7 provides a comprehensive overview of age-friendly approaches and developments in Hong Kong. The chapter first considers the possibilities of learning lessons from other large Asia-Pacific cities, including those in Japan, Korea, Thailand, Singapore and China, in terms of developing AFCCs. It then reviews a range of initiatives in Hong Kong, focusing in particular on those concerned with the domains of social participation and those involving housing and accommodation initiatives. The chapter concludes by discussing some of the positive achievements of the approach and some of the negative factors that might hinder future achievement of age-friendliness locally, including the pressing issue of elderly poverty in a rich city.
Keywords: Age-friendly cities and communities, Population ageing, Asia, Social exclusion, Ageing policy, Housing, Poverty
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