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Meet the team of ageing.hku.hk, a multidisciplinary research platform on ageing issues. Learn about their backgrounds, projects, and publications.
Professor LUM, Yat-sang Terry. Professor Lum is Henry G Leong Professor in Social Work and Social Administration; and Professor of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong. He is also an elected Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
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.
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, Department of Social Work and Social. Administration, HKU. Despite popular criticisms that Hong Kong lacks a social insurance-based pension system for the aged and old age poverty is critical, the government has offered a multi-level social protection system for the elderly.
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.
