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SAU PO CENTRE ON AGEING

The Sau Po Centre on Ageing is committed to enhancing the well-being of older people through its research, education, and knowledge exchange activities. The Centre has been instrumental in establishing the field of gerontology in Hong Kong and China. Locally, the Centre has provided consultation to the HKSAR government and major NGOs on policy change in program innovation in ageing services. It has helped introduce the long term care screening system and the community care voucher to Hong Kong. Globally, through its global ageing initiative, the Centre has collaborated with other universities and research centres in Asia and North America to promote understanding of ageing issues across culture and to establish a network of researchers to promote betterment of older people’s well-being through research and knowledge exchange activities. The Centre’s researchers are multidisciplinary, coming from different social science departments at The University of Hong Kong, School of Medicine, as well as researchers from other higher educational institutions in Hong Kong and North America. The Centre has ongoing research projects in the areas of LTC policy, productive ageing, ageing in China, end of life care, dementia care, health literacy, and comparative ageing policy.