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Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees

China Daily  

Members of Project GrandMove, a program that trains retirees to become exercise instructors for the elderly led by the University of Hong Kong, pose on March 9 after a training session. Pushing a trolley stacked with paint cans, brushes, and a new handrail, she is on her way to do volunteer repair work for elderly residents living in public housing …

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Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees

China Daily  

Members of Project GrandMove, a program that trains retirees to become exercise instructors for the elderly led by the University of Hong Kong, pose on March 9 after a training session. Pushing a trolley stacked with paint cans, brushes, and a new handrail, she is on her way to do volunteer repair work for elderly residents living in public housing …

Volunteer Elderly Volunteer Work Hong Kong Volunteers Work Kong
Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees

China Daily  

Members of Project GrandMove, a program that trains retirees to become exercise instructors for the elderly led by the University of Hong Kong, pose on March 9 after a training session. Pushing a trolley stacked with paint cans, brushes, and a new handrail, she is on her way to do volunteer repair work for elderly residents living in public housing …

Volunteer Elderly Volunteer Work Hong Kong Volunteers Work Kong
Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees

China Daily  

Members of Project GrandMove, a program that trains retirees to become exercise instructors for the elderly led by the University of Hong Kong, pose on March 9 after a training session. Pushing a trolley stacked with paint cans, brushes, and a new handrail, she is on her way to do volunteer repair work for elderly residents living in public housing …

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Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees

China Daily  

Terry Lum, a professor at University of Hong Kong's Department of Social Work and Social Administration, gives a speech at a peer supporter graduation ceremony. "Traditionally, the less-educated elderly, who used to be blue-collar workers, could only take on easy-to-learn volunteer work that required minimal training," Lum said. Another program led by Lum — JC JoyAge: Jockey Club Holistic Support …

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Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees

China Daily  

Elderly people are guided to do exercises in Project GrandMove. Better engagement In 2014, the HKSAR government tasked the Elderly Commission to come up with a holistic plan for elderly services in the city. The "Elderly Services Programme Plan" was unveiled in 2017 and contains a list of short, and medium- to long-term recommendations. Lam, who headed the commission at …

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Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees

China Daily  

Members of Project GrandMove, a program that trains retirees to become exercise instructors for the elderly led by the University of Hong Kong, pose on March 9 after a training session. Pushing a trolley stacked with paint cans, brushes, and a new handrail, she is on her way to do volunteer repair work for elderly residents living in public housing …

Volunteer Work Hong Kong Work Kong Hong Repair Chan
Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees

China Daily  

Elderly people are guided to do exercises in Project GrandMove. Better engagement In 2014, the HKSAR government tasked the Elderly Commission to come up with a holistic plan for elderly services in the city. The "Elderly Services Programme Plan" was unveiled in 2017 and contains a list of short, and medium- to long-term recommendations. Lam, who headed the commission at …

Elderly Services Elderly Commission
Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees

China Daily  

Terry Lum, a professor at University of Hong Kong's Department of Social Work and Social Administration, gives a speech at a peer supporter graduation ceremony. "Traditionally, the less-educated elderly, who used to be blue-collar workers, could only take on easy-to-learn volunteer work that required minimal training," Lum said. Another program led by Lum — JC JoyAge: Jockey Club Holistic Support …

Support Volunteer Elderly Volunteer Work Hong Kong Work Peer
Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Hong Kong eyes golden opportunities for retirees

China Daily  

Members of Project GrandMove, a program that trains retirees to become exercise instructors for the elderly led by the University of Hong Kong, pose on March 9 after a training session. Pushing a trolley stacked with paint cans, brushes, and a new handrail, she is on her way to do volunteer repair work for elderly residents living in public housing …

Volunteer Work Hong Kong Work Kong Hong Repair Chan
Labour will hit elderly with ‘retirement tax’, claim Tories
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Labour will hit elderly with ‘retirement tax’, claim Tories

The Telegraph  

Labour would hit the elderly with a “retirement tax”, the Tories have claimed, after Rachel Reeves refused to match their plan to keep the state pension tax-free. Laura Trott, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said Labour’s stance would mean thousands of retirees being dragged into paying income tax from 2027. Rishi Sunak promised to raise the income tax threshold …

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Elderly retirees face big losses after Chinese trust goes bust, reflecting turbulent economy
9 months, 1 week ago

Elderly retirees face big losses after Chinese trust goes bust, reflecting turbulent economy

Associated Press  

CHENGDU, China — Some investors in a troubled trust fund in China are facing financial ruin under a government plan to return a fraction of their money, casualties of a slump in the property industry and a broader economic slowdown. “If underlying assets of financial products won’t generate enough returns to pay such high interest rates, default is inevitable.” The …

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Forum discusses challenges, opportunities of aging China
1 year, 2 months ago

Forum discusses challenges, opportunities of aging China

China Daily  

Dignitaries engage in discussions. Experts offered their insights and solutions to tackle China's growing aging population, addressing the existing challenges in elderly care at a forum in Shaanxi province on Sunday. “The question is how to transform this problem into an opportunity and a driving force.” Just a day before the Double Ninth Festival celebrated for elderly people, the forum …

China Elderly Industry
Drive to attract skilled retirees to rural areas
1 year, 3 months ago

Drive to attract skilled retirees to rural areas

China Daily  

Tang Shangjun, 93 years old, offers instruction to a student in his wooden house in Wuhan village, Central China's Hunan province. Population loss has long beset China's less well-off countryside and hindered efforts to vitalize rural regions, experts said. Apart from the agricultural ministry, which in the latest institutional reform in March merged with the National Rural Revitalization Administration, the …

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2023年退休人员基本养老金上调3.8%
1 year, 7 months ago

2023年退休人员基本养老金上调3.8%

China Daily  

人力资源社会保障部、财政部近日印发《关于2023年调整退休人员基本养老金的通知》，明确从2023年1月1日起，为2022年底前已按规定办理退休手续并按月领取基本养老金的企业和机关事业单位退休人员提高基本养老金水平，总体调整水平为2022年退休人员月人均基本养老金的3.8%。 China announced Monday that it will raise the basic pension payments for retirees in 2023, marking 19th consecutive annual increase. 在应对人口老龄化的过程中，我国已经把老年人照护放在重要位置。 Official data showed that by the end of 2022, the number of Chinese people aged 60 or above had surpassed 280 million, accounting for 19.8 percent of the country's total population. 官方数据显示，到2022年底，中国60岁及以上人口已超过2.8亿，占全国总人口的19.8%。 The country has recently released a …

China Population
Home entertainment
2 years, 4 months ago

Home entertainment

China Daily  

Traditional opera troupes perform for retirees at the Fu Rui Yuan care home each month. Gen Z entrepreneur, Fan Jinlin, is changing the public perception of elderly care with the help of social media and a troupe of young-at-heart retirees, Cheng Yuezhu reports. Living among a group of friends, having a lot of spare time to work on their hobbies …

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Retirees in focus as new growth driver of tourism
2 years, 7 months ago

Retirees in focus as new growth driver of tourism

China Daily  

An elderly tourist from Beijing tours around the West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, in early spring of 2021. "Senior tourism is not only beneficial to the physical and mental health of the elderly, but also a sign of the country's development and progress," said Gao Shunli, a researcher at the Tourism Research Centre of the Chinese Academy of Social …

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Retirees in focus as new growth driver of tourism
2 years, 7 months ago

Retirees in focus as new growth driver of tourism

China Daily  

An elderly tourist from Beijing tours around the West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, in early spring of 2021. "Senior tourism is not only beneficial to the physical and mental health of the elderly, but also a sign of the country's development and progress," said Gao Shunli, a researcher at the Tourism Research Centre of the Chinese Academy of Social …

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Rights group: Scores detained at retirees’ rally in Belarus
4 years ago

Rights group: Scores detained at retirees’ rally in Belarus

Associated Press  

KYIV, Ukraine — A human rights group said that dozens of people were detained in the Belarusian capital on Monday during the traditional weekly rally of retirees against President Alexander Lukashenko, who won his sixth term in office in a disputed election. “Elderly people are being held in unsanitary conditions, large groups of them are being kept in cells and …

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