Community Projects
Serve the Community
Care for Carers: Intergenerational Services and Research Project
Lingnan University Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies (APIAS) has received donations from the "Thanksgiving Elderly Research Fund" and funding from the "Research Matching Grant Scheme". Starting from March 2020, the Institute will launch a two-and-a-half-year project called "Caring for Caregivers: Inter-generational Service and Research Program" (the Program). The Program aims to train LingU students to participate in research projects to understand the stress of caring for elderly individuals with chronic illnesses and physical and mental disabilities. It also aims to integrate a set of support service recommendations tailored to the needs of caregivers, and to introduce relevant support service information to caregivers through home visits. Additionally, the Program will regularly organize online seminars for caregivers to enhance their health knowledge and skills, as well as to access community support information, in order to strengthen their caregiving abilities and confidence.
Report on Social Support and Needs of Caregivers for Mental Illness and Cancer
View detailsStudent team goes to the elderly care centre to serve caregivers.
Alleviate Caregiver Stress through Art Therapy
Chat with caregivers
Chat with caregivers
Students and Happy Ageing with Chinese Medicine Project
This 3-year project is funded by Tin Ka Ping Foundation, which will train up young people to become “Health Ambassadors of Happy Ageing with Chinese Medicine” and “Promotion Leaders of Chinese Medicine” to provide community services to elderly, and organise talk series on Chinese medicine to community members, which aims to promote traditional Chinese culture and knowledge of Chinese medicine across all age groups.
Students and Happy Ageing with Chinese Medicine Project: Celebration of Achievements Ceremony
Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Promotion
Acupoint Introduction
Life Stories of Older People Project
Life Stories of Older People’ is a one-year project funded by The Board of Management of The Chinese Permanent Cemeteries (BMCPC). It aims to help young people strengthen their resilience and build an optimistic outlook in life through learning the life experience of the elderly. By reviewing and narrating life events, the elderly will learn to accept their past and enhance their sense of self-identity. Young participants will create life education booklets to pass on the positive messages from the older generation to the younger generation, as well as to encourage other elderly to live a happy life.
Interview with the Elderly about their Life Stories
Book: Life stories of older people
View detailsSenior social worker explains interviewing precautions to students.
Life Story of Older People Project Recognition Ceremony
Professor Dickson Chan, Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies, delivers the opening speech.
Elderly and students sharing their experiences of participating in the event.
Elderly people share how to overcome adversity