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11 Innovation & Impact for Intergenerational Well-being
Understanding Our Elderly and Promoting Smart Ageing
With the nomination for the HKSAR Chief Executive’s Community Project List, our Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies (APIAS), the flagship centre of Lingnan in promoting active ageing and providing elderly care training, is supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club
Charities Trust with a donation of $19.68 million for the “LU Jockey Club Gerontechnology and Smart Ageing Project” which runs for three years over 2019-2022.
Led by Prof Ka Ho MOK, our Vice-President and Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, the project aims to promote Gerontechnology and support smart ageing Socialpreneurship development. It serves as an educational platform to provide training courses and workshops on “Gerontechnology in Healthcare, Dining, Living and Transport”.
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Healthcare Dining
Lingnan is teaming up with government and business organisations, and providers of healthcare and social services to launch a wide array of initiatives such as:
• LU Jockey Club Gerontech-X Lab
• Gerontechnology Practitioner Training Courses
• Socialpreneur Incubation Courses
• Gerontechnology & Socialpreneurship Incubator • Gerontechnology Public Seminars
• Gerontechnology Mobile Lab
• Social Enterprise Intelligent Hub
Living Transport
Building an age-friendly community is a mission put into action by APIAS. Significant projects being conducted in the reporting year included the following which together have so far benefited more than 18,000 people and 300 households:
• Jockey Club Age-Friendly City Project (Pilot Phase), $7.13 million
• Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project (Phase Two), $7.12 million
• Jockey Club Intergenerational Communication and Health Promotion Programme, $8.8 million
The “Business Genius in Silver Age” project which is newly funded by the Elder Academy Development Foundation will provide our senior citizens with new learning opportunities in multimedia production.