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【明報文章】今年施政報告公布前,坊間盛傳政府將重推公屋「租置計劃」,並於施政報告裏解釋措施的具體安排。到了施政報告公布當日,行政長官李家超對租置計劃零着墨,公眾難免諸多猜疑。其後,李家超被問及是否不再推出租置計劃,他的回應是:現時有39個屋邨納入計劃,仍有共3.1萬個租置單位未售出,加上租置屋邨的管理問題仍在研究如何解決,所以「現階段並非是適合作決定的時間」。

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Mental Health
A local university professor on Wednesday said those who lend money need to bear their share of responsibility when it comes to suicide due to financial pressures.
The call came as the city marked World Suicide Prevention Day and as the University of Hong Kong’s Jockey Club Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention presented its latest round of local suicide data.
The centre’s director, Professor Paul Yip, said creditors need to consider whether their loans would cause debtors stress that might result in suicide.
He added that men between the age of 24 and 39 are more vulnerable and require more attention.
“Their help-seeking behaviour is not very good… when they experience problems I think they just do not know where they can turn for help.”
He urged everyone to think of the effect suicide can leave on one’s loved ones, including families.
Data from the centre also showed that the suicide rate for those under the age 15 had decreased by 50 percent.
However, it also showed that overall suicide rates in Hong Kong have been rising since 2021, higher than the international average.
Yip says it is important for more people to be aware of their mental health and understand that it is not shameful to seek help.
He added that many would benefit from a simple three-hour session on how to talk to those struggling, especially since most first turn to their loved ones for help instead of professionals.
“The important thing is how to create an environment in which the people feel happy and hopeful.
“You are not alone, it is okay to not be okay and do come and seek help.”
Link: https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1822179-20250910.htm

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Mental Health
September 10 marks World Suicide Prevention Day, a vital global call to action that unites communities worldwide – including individuals, organisations and those with lived experience – to initiate crucial conversations and reaffirm our collective role in preventing suicide.

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Mental Health
香港大學防止自殺研究中心今日(10日)聯同生命熱線公布本港最新自殺數據,指去年香港自殺率為14.1,超出國際水平,亦較2023年的13.5上升0.6。而25至39歲男性自殺率增幅尤為明顯,按年急升5.1至23,3專家形容值得重點關注。

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Mental Health
每年的9月10日是世界防止自殺日,而開學月亦是學童情緒陷入困擾的「高危時期」,值得多加關注。香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系副教授兼認可註冊臨床心理學家黃蔚澄長年進行自殺議題的研究,去年他與香港撒瑪利亞防止自殺會合作,展開全港首個針對自殺者遺屬在遇事逾十年後、探討其心路歷程變化的深度訪談研究,發現他們過去不但承受哀傷、內疚、自責、迷茫等複雜情緒,社會對自殺「污名化」亦為他們帶來莫大壓力。哪怕年月過去,這仍是他們心中永不磨滅的傷口,有人談及仍會淚流不止,不過亦有人能展現出「創傷後成長」的情況。黃蔚澄與研究團隊成員近日接受香港文匯報專訪時指,早前已將十名遺屬的心路歷程結集成《遙遠的他》一書,期望是次研究讓大眾了解自殺對遺屬帶來的深遠影響,也讓更多自殺者的親友知道,社會有一批有心人與同路人,願意關心、聆聽和陪伴。你,並不孤單。

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Mental Health
天恩邨/房署/遷出/輕生丨天水圍天恩邨一對患有精神病母子,被指因13年前申請公屋時未有如實申報資產,因此遭房屋署發信要求遷出。母子曾就此作出上訴,並獲青山醫院發出證明書,建議容許二人繼續在單位居住,不過,今年3月上訴委員會最終裁定上訴失敗,涉案母子則先後於今年4月20日及7月31日墮樓亡。

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Mental Health
The number of student suicide cases in Hong Kong remained at a high level, according to a member of the Advisory Committee on Mental Health, Paul Yip.

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Insights
【明報文章】政府最近公布的一系列經濟和民生數字,市民聽來總覺得不知如何理解。不是說這些數字的真確性有問題,而是這些數字彼此並不配合,有些看來更互相矛盾,例如說經濟好了,失業率卻不跌反升。最令市民感到困惑的是,一些數字所表達的情况,於現實環境裏卻看不到,例如說來港設立公司的新增企業數字創新高,寫字樓空置率卻居高不下,街上的空舖也隨處可見。

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Therapy
遊戲治療是非入侵性的兒童情緒輔導方式,近年在港漸趨普及。除社會福利署支援特殊需要兒童外,坊間不乏私人基金資助非政府機構提供服務。有註冊遊戲治療師指,疫後服務需求增加,惟香港未有註冊制度,服務質素參差;有學者說,部分課程缺乏專業倫理元素,未說明職業階梯,令學員誤信完成數日課程即可執業。有業內人士指,遊戲治療仍處起步、探索和優化階段,持份者要加深了解,若日後得官方註冊資格,有望推動跨專業合作,更有效支援有需要的家庭。

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Mental Health
香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系講座教授葉兆輝指,疫情打亂日常生活,至今仍未復常,「學生重返校園,與以往也有點不一樣。」疫後屢有學童輕生,他指,細看學童的遺書,會感到一絲絕望,兒童缺乏社會參與感,感覺被遺忘,「到底成年人做了甚麼,才會令一個12、13歲的青少年失去希望和生活興趣?」

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Gender
香港單身族愈來愈多,擇偶又往往拒絕「自降身價」。最新公布的《香港的女性及男性–主要統計數字(2025年版)》報告更顯示,本港單身族正在急升,根據2022年至2024年的3年與婚姻人口數據,期內從未結婚的15歲及以上人口由2022年的188.5萬人,升至2024年的193.6萬人,「無婚族」3年內淨增長逾5萬;同期喪偶、離婚及分居人口亦從82.4萬人升至87.5萬人,即回復單身族者亦增加了5.1萬人。社會學者形容港人不願結婚、懼怕負擔的情況嚴重,估計與經濟、教育及香港整體環境有關,談到未來結婚及新生人口會否回升,他悲觀地說:「根本低處未算低」。有議員則認為政府應重新審視政策,關注包括高齡單身人士在內的各類有需要群體。

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Mental Health
除了昨日的悲劇,荃灣悅來酒店上月27日也發生「四屍命案」,曾任職多個紀律部隊的37歲男子疑受情緒病折磨,涉嫌在客房內持刀謀殺妻子和兩名兒子,繼而從窗戶跳下墮樓身亡;一名女子本月11日在深水埗長沙灣道一單位內涉嫌謀殺85歲母親,以及患有唐氏綜合症的48歲胞弟,最終被捕。倫常慘劇近期接連發生,專家擔憂成為「傳染病」,強調萬事總有解決方法,切勿採取極端手法。
憂倫常慘劇變「傳染病」

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Mental Health
香港文匯報訊(記者 費小燁)絕大部分人都曾遇過逆境,香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系助理教授暨賽馬會跨步彩虹計劃首席研究員李嘉惠發表一項研究,顯示53%受訪成年香港居民曾經歷過至少一種童年逆境經驗(ACE),比例遠高於全球平均的38.8%。受訪者最常遇過的ACE形式包括情緒忽視(32.5%)、情緒虐待(30.8%)和身體虐待(14.2%)。李嘉惠指出,統計學上顯示曾經歷過ACE者,使用暴力管教子女的行為是未經歷過者的兩倍,建議特區政府及社會各界通過早期介入與社區支援,及早識別和支援高風險家庭與新手父母,同時加強公眾對ACE及其長期影響的意識與教育。

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Children
Professor Carrie K.W. Li, Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Principal Investigator of the “JC Project Stride”, has released her latest research study titled “Adverse Childhood Experience Is Not My Fault”. This study is part of the “JC Project Stride”, organised by Harmony House and funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, aiming to explore the prevalence, long-term effects, and intergenerational impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in Hong Kong, and offer actionable policy recommendations.

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Insights
【明報文章】今年5月27日,以政務司副司長卓永興為首的工作組,公布了一系列關於促進銀髮經濟的措施。行政長官李家超於去年施政報告提出:由於老年人口數目迅速增加,政府應協助商界把握銀髮經濟的機遇,積極開拓為長者而設的產品和服務。現在工作組推出的措施,正是要落實行政長官去年的建議,並且詳細列明各政策局分擔的責任,表明政府推動銀髮經濟的決心。
原文網址:https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%e8%a7%80%e9%bb%9e/article/20250801/s00012/1753978700256

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【明報文章】去年6月我在這裏寫了一篇文章(註),談論的是疫情過後市面會否回復往日興旺。那時我的結論是︰社會出現了巨大變化,市民生活方式已不一樣,就算市面恢復疫情前的人流,也不能期望消費返回以前水平。
原文網址:https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%e8%a7%80%e9%bb%9e/article/20250704/s00012/1751559473436

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Ageing
隨着香港社會邁向老齡化,「黃金一代」金齡人士(45 歲或以上人士)積極為人生下半場部署。黃金時代基金會連同香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系榮休教授陳麗雲分享最新「金齡生活調查」成果,發現約四分之一金齡受訪者認真考慮移居到內地或海外退休,反映移居已成為金齡人士退休規劃的主要選項之一;另有 14% 受訪者曾赴內地就醫,顯示部分金齡人士開始探索跨境醫療

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Ageing
A scholar has asserted that the primary focus of developing a silver economy should not be to encourage local consumption among the elderly but rather to attract senior citizens from other regions to visit Hong Kong for consumption purposes.

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Ageing
政府早前公布30項促進銀色經濟措施,包括推動樂齡科技和長者消費等。港大社會工作及社會行政學系教授林一星認為,吸引外地長者旅客來港消費和參與銀色經濟更重要。

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End-of-life care
A HK$290 million (US$36.9 million) support project has been launched to provide end-of-life care to Hong Kong’s disabled residents, with organisers expressing hope that it will plug a critical service gap while empowering the community.
The five-year initiative, funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club, is expected to serve more than 3,000 physically and intellectually disabled people, those in mental recovery and about 4,000 carers, and builds on a decade-long support project targeting the elderly.
Professor Amy Chow Yin-man, project director and head of the department of social work and social administration at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), said on Monday that the end-of-life care model for the disabled was underdeveloped worldwide.
“In the past, there was little space for end-of-life care for disabled people because many were diagnosed with a terminal illness very late … primarily due to struggles in communicating their health conditions,” she said.
“But their needs started to be seen and catered to when their life expectancy grew longer, and more societal resources were available.”
Under the new scheme, frontline workers from 10 non-governmental organisations started receiving training from mid-2024 to deliver support services, ranging from advance care planning to life and death education, primarily in care home settings.
Patients will be guided to express their preferences in areas such as personal goals and treatment expectations, and in making advance directives for refusing life-sustaining procedures such as resuscitation and artificial feeding and hydration when they are dying.
Other services include honouring clients’ final wishes, facilitating communication with family members and providing bereavement support.
Chow hoped the project would facilitate long-term policy planning by providing more evidence of the advantages of effective end-of-life care, such as reducing healthcare costs by avoiding unnecessary hospitalisation.
According to the 2021 census, Hong Kong had 530,000 people with physical disabilities or in mental recovery, 70 per cent of whom were aged over 50 years. The mentally disabled population was estimated to be between 77,000 and 90,000.
The project team estimated that 3,800 to 4,900 disabled residents were in need of palliative and end-of-life care.
Link: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3314625/jockey-club-launches-project-bring-end-life-care-disabled-hongkongers





