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About the Conference
 The
2002 Symposium cum Exhibition on Challenges and Opportunities
of an Ageing Population is the first symposium of its kind
in Hong Kong to engage a wide spectrum of the community, including
the public and the private sectors, policy makers, academics
and professionals, the young and the older generations, to
discuss the far-reaching implications of population ageing.
The one-day symposium was held
on Saturday, 8 June 2002 at the Convention Hall of the Hong
Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
By 2021, one out of four Hong Kong people
will be aged 60 or above. The phenomenon of population ageing
is unprecedented and will bring about new challenges and opportunities
for all of us.
The Second World Assembly on Ageing held
in Madrid in April 2002 under the auspices of the United Nations
calls for action to respond to the challenges and opportunities
of population ageing in the 21st century and promote the development
of a society for all ages. It also calls for changes in attitudes,
policies and practices at all levels in all sectors so that
the enormous potential of ageing in the 21st century may be
fulfilled.
The Symposium aims at engaging the various
sectors of the community in a process of reinventing the concept
of ageing and rethinking policy, through an intergenerational,
cross-sectoral and multi-disciplinary approach. The Symposium
will examine population ageing from a forward looking and
macro perspective, covering such topics as the framework and
strategy for an ageing society, the economic and business
perspectives of population ageing, public perception of ageing,
changing workforce and concept of retirement, built environment,
and health maintenance etc.
Why should you attend the symposium?
 Whether
you are a businessman, professional or academic, whether you
are young or old, you will have the opportunity to listen
to leaders and experienced practitioners and researchers in
the fields of public service, commerce, media, education,
architecture, housing, urban planning, retirement financing,
human resource management, health policies and programmes,
etc. on the challenges, and more importantly, the opportunities,
that await you as the Hong Kong demographics, following a
pattern in many other parts of the world, gradually shift
towards a higher concentration of older persons.
The symposium will give you international and local perspectives
on :
- how a society should frame its institutions
and strategies for population ageing
- how businesses should re-position
themselves for the emerging "silver market" (a
consumer market of older persons)
- how public perception to ageing should
be shaped in tandem with changing demographics
- how public and private institutions
should adapt their human resource management practices to
maximize benefits from the knowledge and experience of a
mature workforce
- how housing, town planning and other
infrastructural development should be adapted to facilitate
the development of a sustainable physical built environment
suitable for all ages to live, work and enjoy
- how health care services should be
re-oriented to achieve a life-course approach in health
maintenance
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