Press Release
26 January 2018
For Immediate Release
Golden Age Expo and Summit
We Engage. We Create. We Share.
26-28 January 2018 Hall 1C HKCEC
Organized by Golden Age Foundation, the 3rd “Golden Age Expo and Summit” opens today (26th January) at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. This is the only large-scale Expo and Summit specially catered for the Golden Age population (i.e. people aged 45 and above, retirees and the elderly). Opening ceremony officiating guests include:
- The Honourable Matthew Cheung, Chief Secretary for Administration, HKSAR
- Mr Jasper Tsang, Former President, Legislative Council
- Dr Eward Leong Che-hung, Former Chairmen, Elderly Commission
- Prof Alfred Chan Cheung-ming, Former Chairmen, Elderly Commission
- Prof Neena Lane Chappell, Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria, Canada
- Prof Kathryn Braun, President, Active Ageing Consortium in Asia Pacific
- Dr Miranda Lou, Vice President, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Ms Kathy Y L Chan, Associate Vice-President, City University of Hong Kong
- Mr Hoi Wai Chua, Chief Executive, The Hong Kong Council of Social Service
- Mrs Rebecca Choy Yung, Founder & Chair of Golden Age Foundation
Hundred of retired and present government officials, leaders from businesses, NGOs, social enterprises participate at and support the event.
The Expo will assemble over 100 booths, showcasing thousands of products and services from Hong Kong and around the world, such as smart home design, new technology products, health care products and services, nursing services, financial planning services, tourism, culture and entertainment, life education etc. Moreover, the Summit will gather over 80 renowned international and local speakers to discuss and explore innovative ways of building Hong Kong into a ‘Smart Aging City’. There will also be health screening, performances, fitness and product demonstrations and interactive sessions throughout the three-day event.
Mrs Rebecca Choy Yung, the Founder & Chair of Golden Age Foundation, states that under the theme of “We Engage. We Create. We Share.”, the Foundation has engaged leading professionals from different cities and sectors, including the civic, business, government, academic and R&D sectors, to create an inclusive Smart Ageing City.
The Only Event in HK catered for Golden Agers
Initiated by the Golden Age Foundation in 2016, the 3rd Golden Age Expo will assemble over 100 booths to showcase thousands of innovative products, technology and services from around the world for people aged 45 and above. The followings are some highlights of the exhibits:
Social enterprise Longevity Design House, uses surplus building materials to provide affordable small-scale home maintenance solutions for the elderly living alone, and to improve their living environment. Basic principles for elderly home design are safety and fall prevention, such as set up armrests at appropriate positions in the bathroom and corridors; solid non-slip mat on the bathtub or cylinder; avoid the threshold or uneven ground.
Non-profit organization Senior Citizen Home Safety Association, promotes "smart home for the elderly" based on home safety. With easy-to-use technology and support from a team of experienced 24-hour call center, it provides easy-to-use and affordable preventive home-based care services for the elderly. For example, if the elderly forget to turn off the stove while cooking, the sensor detects that the temperature of the kitchen has risen. The smart home system will send an email to the call center to contact users or their families immediately. Bathroom leakage warning service can also prevent elders from slipping.
Social enterprise DoctorNow NEEDS, combined information technology with medical services, it paired community doctors to provides on-site and remote video medical consultation services for residential homes and elderly. These include an online booking platform, drug delivery, video tracking and electronic medical records, to provide elderly people with appropriate and timely treatment, and to reduce medical costs of the society.
Culture Homes introduces a meal thickener from Japan, “Suberakaze” and “SuberakazeMeat”, in order to provide elders who are suffering from dysphagia with an alternative to blended porridge. “Suberakaze” is an Enzyme Gellant that eliminates stickiness in starchy food, while it retains the original taste. When blended with “Suberakaze” and cooked over heat, the food mixture will solidify into jelly-like substances that are safe for elders with dysphagia to swallow.
Ventria Dreamland Pavilion, assembled numbers of technological start-up enterprises, provided vervious innovative pension technology, including medical supplies and assistive devices, rehabilitation products, smart home etc., to provide all-rounded and innovative experiences for the seniors, including medical care, gourmet food, living environment and life style
Forget Thee Not Limited, believes every life is unique and deserves to be remembered. It provides life celebration and funeral concierge services that allow family and friends to remember and celebrate a life that has meant so much to them and provide an opportunity for bonding and healing.
Social Enterprise Limited serves the community by smart caring and sustainable development of environment through advanced technologies of cloud tech and internet of things. It’s research and development is collaborated with the Smart Integration Company in the Hong Kong Science Park.
Humansa is a brand that signifies a “Humanised Approach” in addressing the needs of mature adults by providing a holistic solution; offering them a unique and brand-new experience in pursuing wellness.
Enable Foundation is a non-profit social design agency with the aim to co-design creative solutions with citizens for our future selves. Using action research and social-design-doing methodology, Enable Foundation 1st public project, Social Innovation Design Lab (SI.DLab) is funded by SIE Fund researching, designing and implementing disruptive innovative solutions to address our ageing issues.
Other innovative exhibits include:
- Systems that improves safety of the elderly, intelligent robots, multifunctional wheelchairs and mobile healthcare sensor;
- Health care products and services, for instance, products for elderly cognitive assessment and improvement; on-site health screening;
- Smart home design for senior citizens, iHome and other specially designed daily necessities to present how intelligent technology enhances home safety and living quality of the matured adults;
- Trendy fashion with special features, such as antibacterial and GPS tracker;
- Mental wellness including counseling, assessment & report;
- Chinese & Western medical and health care services;
- Organic and health food;
- Retirement planning, wealth management, leisure activities, cultural and educational training, on-site health test.
Thought- Provoking Summit
The Summit highlights leading transformational global trends on the future of economic, social, technological, well-being, and cross generation cohesion developments. These will form the framework for us to develop smart ageing cities in Asia. Such framework will guide the development of government policies and investment from the private sectors to enhance the readiness of societies to meet the challenges of population ageing. Over 80 renowned international and local speakers from 10 countries were gathered at the 3-day summit, including Professor Neena Chapell, Emeritus Professor, University of Victoria; Mr David Lane, Group Director Seniors Living/ Partner, Thomson Adsett. The speakers cover topics in the area of finance, technology, housing, active ageing etc. Local celebrities such as Jasper Tsang, Helena Law and Kenneth Tsang etc will meet and share with the audience also.
The aging problem is getting worse and worse. Which the expenditure on social welfare is continue to rise, the government must adopt an effective mechanism to both improve the service for the elderly, and allow the government to have better control over the financial affairs. Social welfare agencies also face the following challenges: How can we make the best use of money when the budget is reducing? How to determine the effectiveness of a project without spending money? How can we use creative ideas to solve social problems? Social finance in the UK introduced "Reconnections" social security bonds at the summit to tackle the serious loneliness faced by the elderly.
Another summit section, "Ageing in Place: Innovative Homecare", introduces the "case nurse" model. Senior nurses are responsible for assessing and monitoring cases. Personal care programs are formulated based on the health status and needs of the elderly to follow up the rehabilitation. With this model, more elders and carers are given full support to extend the time, health and quality of elderly home-based care, and in preventing too early institutionalization.
More informaiton is available at the following link:
Ticket Registration: http://goldenage.foundation/expo-2018/
Summit Registration: http://goldenage.foundation/summit-registration-2018/
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For more information, please visit http://goldenage.foundation/ or contact:
Ms. Milla Wong
Tel: (852) 2561 5566 / 8102 1068 Fax: (852) 2811 9156
E-mail：Publicaffairs@goldenage.foundation