Keep a Healthy and
Active Lifestyle
“Keep a Healthy and Active Lifestyle” section contains resources pertaining to three domains of an age-friendly city, including “Community support & health services”, “Civic participation & employment” and “Social participation”. An age-friendly community supports active ageing by providing services and opportunities to keep seniors healthy, independent and integrated in society, such as through social and recreational activities, voluntary work and paid employment.
Promoting elderly employment and age-friendly workplace becomes a new trend under ageing population.
E-book《Elderly rejoining the labour market, easy go!》 (Chinese version only)
This e-book introduces the benefits and challenges of hiring elderly employees, measures promoting age-friendly workplace, and tips for older adults to rejoin the labour market.
(produced by online media, CTgoodjobs under the territory-wide publicity campaign “Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project – The New Olds”)
E-book《Be age-friendly ‧ A guidebook for HR & employers》 (Chinese version only)
This e-book introduces the benefits and challenges of hiring elderly employees, measures promoting age-friendly workplace, and tips for older adults to rejoin the labour market.
(produced by online media, CTgoodjobs under the territory-wide publicity campaign “Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project – The New Olds”)
Articles and videos | Elderly employment and age-friendly workplace (Chinese version only)
The articles and videos cover interviews with employers of small and medium enterprises, elderly employees and their colleagues sharing the stories of elderly-at-work, and the tips of rejoining labour market after retirement. There were also interviews with community organisations to share how they promoted elderly employment through district-based programmes.
(produced by online media, CTgoodjobs under the territory-wide publicity campaign “Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project – The New Olds” and online media, “HiEggo” under the video series “HiEggo x Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project”)
Videos and booklets | “Age-friendly Employer Award”
The videos and booklets showcase the award-winning age-friendly employers under Jockey Club Age-friendly City Partnership Scheme in 2019, 2020 and 2022 respectively.
“Age-friendly Workplace” Seminar
How to be a pioneer in promoting elderly employment? (22 July 2021)
The seminar invited human resource expert and the awardees of “Jockey Club Age-friendly City Partnership Scheme 2020 – Age-friendly Employer Award” to share how to build an age-friendly workplace and promote elderly employment.
(organised by online media, CTgoodjobs under the territory-wide publicity campaign “Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project – The New Olds”)
Booklet | “Promote Employment of Mature Persons” – Friendly employment practices for mature persons
This pamphlet covers the information on friendly employment practices and benefits for hiring mature persons, points to note regarding employees’ retirement age, employees’ compensation insurance and MPF contributions, as well as case sharing of entreprises taking the lead to hire mature persons.
(published by the Labour Department)
Booklet | The Toolkit for Age-friendly Community Kitchen
It is a practical guide to provide feasible design advice to improve the working conditions of community kitchen staff, bringing inspirations to the catering industry to cope with the challenges of ageing workers.
(published by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation)
