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Message from the Director. The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Sau Po Centre on Ageing (COA) traces its root to social gerontological research and education in late 1990s, when Hong Kong shifted its demographic into an aging society. Since then, CoA has been developed into a leading research agency under Faculty of Social Science HKU in Asia and ...
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 Work. and Social Administration, HKU. In recent years we see elders. wanting to be self-reliant. In. the past we see the younger. generation as caretakers of the. elderly; nowadays - and in the. future – the youth are going to be.
interRAI's goal is to encourage the adoption of its assessment systems throughout the world, and thereby to improve care of older adults. For this reason, it is interRAI policy to provide license for any of their assessment instruments to governments or caregiving organizations, without royalty.
Legacy. Over the past two decades, the work of CoA has been shaping the development of long-term care policies and programmes in Hong Kong. Early work by Prof. Iris Chi, the Founding Director, led to the implementation of the Standardised Care Need Assessment Mechanism for Elderly Services by the Social Welfare Department (SWD) in November 2000.
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.