Take Charge of Your Own Ageing: Growing Old in Hong Kong by Woo, Jean

Take Charge of Your Own Ageing: Growing Old in Hong Kong

Health is not just the absence of disease. In an era when living to 100 is becoming...
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Author: Jean Woo
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Take Charge of Your Own Ageing: Growing Old in Hong Kong by Woo, Jean

Take Charge of Your Own Ageing: Growing Old in Hong Kong

$80.14

Take Charge of Your Own Ageing: Growing Old in Hong Kong

$80.14
Author: Jean Woo
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Health is not just the absence of disease.

In an era when living to 100 is becoming more common,

our concept of ageing must evolve.

While Hong Kong people enjoy the world's longest life expectancy, an important question arises: Are we truly achieving healthy ageing?

In this book, Professor Jean Woo addresses a diverse array of challenges associated with the elderly population in Hong Kong society, including issues like elderly poverty, unfriendly community designs, unfair stigmatization faced by seniors, and late-life loneliness. Drawing on extensive research and clinical experience, she advocates for self-care, education, and empowerment, encouraging us to move beyond dependence on doctors and medications.

Ageing is inevitable, yet we can control how we age.

Author: Jean Woo
Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Published: 11/05/2024
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9789882373136

About the Author

Professor Jean Woo graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1974. She joined the Department of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985 as Lecturer and became Head of the Department in 1993 until 1999. She established the Centre for Nutritional Studies in 1997 using a self-financing model to carry out service, education and research; and the Centre for Gerontology and Geriatrics in 1998 (renamed as the S.H Ho Centre for Gerontology and Geriatrics in 2006), offering self-financed courses in Gerontology and Geriatrics, as well as End of Life Care.


Currently she is the Co-Director of CUHK Institute of Health Equity, Director of the CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing, Henry G Leong Research Professor of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Consultant of Prince of Wales Hospital and Shatin Hospital.

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