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Seminar and exhibition on achievements of Healthy Ageing Campaign

The Elderly Commission today (June 5) held a seminar and a two-day exhibition on the achievements of the Healthy Ageing Campaign.

Funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the three-year campaign was launched in 2001 and aimed to promote a proper concept on ageing in the community to improve the physical and psychosocial well being of current and future generations of the older population.

In the past three years, the Commission had organised public education and publicity programmes as well as funded community partnership programmes of various organisations to widely disseminate healthy ageing messages.

Officiating at the opening of the seminar, the Chairman of the Elderly Commission, Mr Tam Yiu-chung, said: ��The seminar is aimed to share with various sectors of the community the experience gained during the Healthy Ageing Campaign period.

��Through the campaign, we learn that older persons could remain physically and socially active and continue to contribute to the community.

��Another objective of the seminar is to encourage participants to consider ways to engage older persons in their services and programmes as older persons are indeed a potential community resource,�� he said.as far as possible

Today's seminar was held at the Sha Tin Town Hall and attended by over 300 participants.

At the seminar, Emeritus Professor of Community Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Professor Lee Siu-hung, gave a keynote address and shared with the audience his views on active and healthy ageing. Head and Professor of the Department of Applied Social Studies of the City University of Hong Kong, Professor Ng Sik-hung, presented his views on positive ageing. At the same time, a representative of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department was invited to inform the audience its policies and initiatives in serving older persons.

During the seminar, healthy ageing projects covering a wide area of interest �V elderly sex education, organic farming, bird watching, manpower matching, information technology, ��Hakka�� folk song and dance musical �V were presented.

These projects are among the 32 healthy ageing projects on display in a two-day Healthy Ageing Exhibition at Sha Tin New Town Plaza starting today (June 5) afternoon until tomorrow (June 6). Members of the public are welcomed to visit the exhibition.

Ends/Saturday, June 5, 2004

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