https://www.scmp.com/rss/512095/feed Dr Karen Siu Lan Cheung is Centre on Ageing Fellow in the Sau Po Centre on Ageing at the University of Hong Kong. She is the principal investigator of Hong Kong Centenarian Study I and Reaching Out Dementia Caregiver Support Project (REACH-HK). Her research interests cover healthy longevity, centenarians and dementia caregiving, mortality trajectory and life table analysis, population ageing, health life expectancy, family and health-related policy issues, and cross-border population dynamics. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The latest census figures suggest the proportion of Hong Kong’s population aged 65 or above has increased from about 7 per cent in 1981 to 20 per cent in 2021. That means one in five people in the city is elderly. The main reason for this is that post-war baby boomers – those born between 1950 and 1960 – are gradually entering old age. Among the elderly population aged 65 or above, the proportion aged 85 or over has risen from 5 per cent in 1981 to 16 per cent in 2021. This is expected to... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3170423/hongkongers-are-living-longer-not-healthier-ageing-population-puts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3170423/hongkongers-are-living-longer-not-healthier-ageing-population-puts?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Mar 2022 01:15:20 +0000