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Professor Lum is an expert in long term care and in ageing policy. He received his Bachelor's degree in Economics and his Master's degree in Social Work from The University of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph.D. degree in social work from the Washington University in St. Louis, with special focus on gerontological social work and policy research.
Professor Vivian W. Q. Lou has been at the University of Hong Kong for more than 20 years and has been the Director of the Sau Po Centre on Ageing since 2015. She is also the professor and the program director of Master of Social Sciences in Gerontology at the Department of Social Work & Social Administration.
Professor Yu is member of several expert advisory panels of the HKSAR Government to support priority-setting for research funding and aged care policy. She also acts as consultant to support aged service development in the flagship NGOs in Hong Kong.
Professor Chow is Head and Professor in Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong. She is a registered social worker with the specialization in bereavement counseling.
The Sau Po Centre on Ageing is a leading research centre on gerontology in greater China and in the Asian Pacific region. The Centre was officially launched in April 1999 under the auspices of the Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong.
Associate Professor, Department of Social Workand Social Administration, HKU. Twenty years ago, study centres on ageing were limited; back then the Chinese University of Hong Kong focused their work on medical care, and we focused on psychosocial wellbeing and were going for diverse.
Current research on informal carer dominantly takes a spousal caregiving perspective by clearly distinguish between roles of caregivers and care-receivers, overlooking a prevalent phenomenon that both spouses are at risk of functional decline and help with each other in daily life.
