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Suicides among elderly people have been on the rise in recent years. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
Hong Kong society

Hong Kong to launch carer database this year as elderly suicides remain high

Suicides among those aged 60 and over accounted for 41 per cent of city’s overall cases last year.

Wellness

How to stay happy in retirement? 67-year-old chooses active, exciting life

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Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong businesses, social groups create platform to plan for ‘silver economy’

Wellness

What’s really causing your cold feet? A doctor explains possible issues

Circulation problems commonly cause cold feet, an expert says. People who are overweight or have high blood pressure are at increased risk.

Having chronically cold feet may be due to poor circulation. Circulation problems increase with age, affecting about one in 10 people over 60. Photo: Shutterstock
Japan

Japan hospital sued after dementia patient swallows 12cm key

Some have voiced concern that hospitals worried about accountability would stop taking in dementia patients.

Hong Kong society

Opinion | Silver economy far from enough for rapidly ageing Hong Kong

Promoting economic activities catering to the elderly is welcome, but more must be done to address the issues the elderly and their carers face.

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Wellness

Want to help prevent dementia? Learn new activities to boost the brain

Don’t rely on sudoku to keep your mind fit. Make new friends, visit different places and learn new things to really challenge your brain.

Keeping your brain active and challenged by doing new things - such as learning a new musical instrument - can help stave off dementia. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

ByteDance helps jewellery firm Lao Feng Xiang push AI glasses to China’s elderly

The jewellery firm’s foray into the wearables market reflects a surge of fresh interest in smart eyewear with AI-powered capabilities.

Wellness

Ignoring signs of a mini stroke means trouble later on, doctors say

Doing nothing if you have a mini stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) puts you at risk of a bigger one later on, and of having dementia.

Wellness

Women’s longevity, heart health and more in focus at Hong Kong summit

Medical gaslighting, AI-driven tools also among topics to be examined by experts at the inaugural Women’s Health in Focus: A Global Summit.

Maaike Steinebach is the founder of FemTech Future, which with OM Health Hub and the Asia Society Hong Kong Centre is holding the inaugural Women’s Health in Focus: A Global Summit, in Hong Kong, from June 16-17. Photo: Maaike Steinebach
Robotics

China turns to robots for elderly care with national pilot programme

Amid a demographic crisis, the government is encouraging the use of robots to care for senior citizens in institutional and home settings.

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A senior resident at a nursing home in Shenzhen interacts with a humanoid robot. Photo: Xinhua
Wellness

Are you better off single? It halves dementia risk, study finds

Widowed, divorced and never-married individuals in a US study had roughly 50 per cent or lower dementia risk compared with married people.

Trending in China

‘Age is just a number’: China grandma, 71, stars in fitness contest, shares tips

Six-pack boasting grandmother sets cycling Guinness World Record, says it is never too late to start physical exercise.

China's population

Pay dads to parent? How China could fix birth rate crisis, according to new research

As Beijing grapples with population decline, new research argues subsidies for fathers could tackle falling global fertility rates.

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To-be fathers learn to take care of newborns at a maternal hospital in Handan in north China’s Hebei province on Sunday, June 21, 2020. Photo: Future Publishing via Getty Images
China property

The future of retirement for wealthy Hongkongers could be this Zhuhai community

HN Group’s Serensia Woods, a 135,000-square-metre retirement community, is catering to Hong Kong’s ageing population with flats starting at HK$10 million.

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Serensia Woods, a 13,500-square-metre retirement community in Zhuhai’s Hengqin island, includes a 133-room hotel, four residential towers, four wellness centre towers and a spa centre. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong society

Opinion | Get elderly housing right and Hong Kong’s silver economy can take off

To support the latest measures, the right infrastructure must be in place, starting from housing and community support.

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Japan

Japan faces ‘critical’ demographic crisis as birth rate hits historic low

Record-low births and an ageing population are driving Japan to implement urgent measures to encourage marriage and boost fertility rates.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Opinion | Cooperation the only way to avert Hong Kong’s healthcare cost crisis

Healthcare in Hong Kong should operate as a true system rather than as an inefficient, disaggregated environment with competing stakeholders.

People wait in a queue for medicine at the pharmacy in Kwong Wah Hospital on March 24. Photo: Edmond So
Vietnam

Facing gender ratio crisis, Vietnam proposes tougher laws on sex selection

Officials warn Vietnam could have 1.5 million more men than women by 2034 without action.

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Vietnam

Vietnam scraps 2-child policy to tackle shrinking birth rate

The nation’s birth rate sunk to a record low in December. Previous laws allowed only one or two children per family, except in special cases.

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Wellness

How to age well? Do what you love for work, as this Singapore running guide does

Eddie Chang, 55, leads The Westin Singapore hotel guests on runs three mornings a week. He shares tips for older runners and urban running.

Eddie Chang, run concierge at The Westin Singapore. Photo: The Westin Singapore
Trending in China

Taiwan man accused of murdering sick mum who died after left in bathroom for days

‘Filial’ factory worker from poor background ignores long-suffering, stroke-hit mother for five days, neighbours express ‘disbelief’.

A man in Taiwan has been accused of murdering his sick mother who died after being left in the bathroom for days. Photo: Shutterstock
Animal welfare in Hong Kong

Letters | Dolphin’s death another wake-up call to phase out animal captivity

Readers discuss better ways for Ocean Park to promote conservation, creativity labs for the young, MTR’s admonishments not to walk on escalators, and the better education system between Hong Kong and Singapore.

Hong Kong society

Hong Kong ‘silver economy’ moves to boost spending by ‘5% annually over 3 years’

Deputy Chief Secretary Warner Cheuk’s remarks follow series of measures being rolled out to better address needs of greying population.

Malaysia

Letters | Are workplaces in Malaysia ready to welcome older workers?

Readers discuss a call to raise the retirement age to 65, the Chinese premier’s visit to Indonesia, and the significance of the Trump-Harvard feud.

People cross a street in front of Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 5, 2020. Photo: Reuters
Wellness

MIT robot that prevents falls may keep elderly independent longer

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team created the Elderly Bodily Assistance Robot, or E-Bar, to help elderly people who live alone.

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Six of multiple possible assistance scenarios for a prototype of the Elderly Bodily Assistance Robot, or E-Bar, built by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Photo: MIT
Hong Kong economy

What experts say Hong Kong gets right and wrong in plan to tap ‘silver economy’

Blueprint a ‘good start’ but government can adopt more measures, such as flexible retirement age and insurance co-payment for employers hiring older workers.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Pilot scheme offers hope to Hong Kong patients with degenerative knee disease

Combination of Western and Chinese medicine relieves pain of knee osteoarthritis amid long queues for joint replacement surgery.

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