A Study on Leisure Facilities, Service and Activities Are Suitable and Enough for Elderly in Hong Kong?
A Study on leisure facilities, service and activities are suitable and enough for elderly in Hong Kong?
Introduction A small-scale city of China, Hong Kong, there is estimated 7,008,900 people by the end of Year 2008. And more than 13% of it will be the elderly. In view of the older population growing up at full pelt in Hong Kong, and for quickly promoting educational and economic capability, the demands of elderly leisure facilities and services increase every year. Nowadays the leisure topic for the elderly has been discussed mostly in sociology, and discovering that as age gets older the participated scope of leisure activities gets smaller, and being limited to gossip or some kinds of static leisure activities. The Hong Kong Government has replied that already provided lots of subsidy and leisure facilities among districts for the elderly, yet the life satisfactory of the elderly still lower than those live in foreign countries. In order to understand the provision of facilities, services and activities whether suitable and enough to meet the elderly needs and wants or not, and get some guidelines for the Government in providing and allocating the facilities and services, we occurred this study. There are four purposes in this study:
1) To understand the Hong Kong elderly demographic situation
2) To analyze the existing needs and demands of the leisure facilities, services and activities of the elderly.
3) To analyze if the existing facilities, services and activities enough and suitable for elderly or not.
4) To find out the elderly changing behavior and the coming trends of the elderly facilities, services and activities.
Demographic of the elderly in Hong Kong
According to the 2006 Population Census, the population of older persons increased at an average annual growth rate of 5.5% over the past 40 years. There were 850 280 older persons in Hong Kong in 2006(fig.1) occupying more than 12% of the total Hong Kong
Introduction A small-scale city of China, Hong Kong, there is estimated 7,008,900 people by the end of Year 2008. And more than 13% of it will be the elderly. In view of the older population growing up at full pelt in Hong Kong, and for quickly promoting educational and economic capability, the demands of elderly leisure facilities and services increase every year. Nowadays the leisure topic for the elderly has been discussed mostly in sociology, and discovering that as age gets older the participated scope of leisure activities gets smaller, and being limited to gossip or some kinds of static leisure activities. The Hong Kong Government has replied that already provided lots of subsidy and leisure facilities among districts for the elderly, yet the life satisfactory of the elderly still lower than those live in foreign countries. In order to understand the provision of facilities, services and activities whether suitable and enough to meet the elderly needs and wants or not, and get some guidelines for the Government in providing and allocating the facilities and services, we occurred this study. There are four purposes in this study:
1) To understand the Hong Kong elderly demographic situation
2) To analyze the existing needs and demands of the leisure facilities, services and activities of the elderly.
3) To analyze if the existing facilities, services and activities enough and suitable for elderly or not.
4) To find out the elderly changing behavior and the coming trends of the elderly facilities, services and activities.
Demographic of the elderly in Hong Kong
According to the 2006 Population Census, the population of older persons increased at an average annual growth rate of 5.5% over the past 40 years. There were 850 280 older persons in Hong Kong in 2006(fig.1) occupying more than 12% of the total Hong Kong