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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」

In the Media
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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Insights
【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

In the Media
Honours
國際學術網站Research.com早前公布本年度全球學者排名,香港大學有12名學者獲選前100名科學家,當中5名在其各自領域內排行亞洲第一,包括校長張翔、微生物學系講座教授袁國勇。

In the Media
Population Studies
統計處公布,本港去年年底人口臨時數字為750萬3100人,較前年同期增加30500人,升幅0.4%。期內亦錄得51700名香港居民淨移入、即是移入人數多於移出。

In the Media
Mental Health
【明報專訊】上周三訪問香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系副教授黃蔚澄,天陰下雨,香港天文台預測本周或颱風逼近,天氣陰晴不定就如人的情緒。記者路過一書店,見門口書枱有九成書與精神健康有關,想到黃蔚澄說整個社會籠罩着的負面氣氛。除了近年大眾關注的學童自殺潮,最近有中小學老師疑不堪壓力自殺,記者好奇尋因以外,自殺有何預防之道,便問研究自殺議題20多年的黃蔚澄,人的自殺意圖是否有迹可尋?

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Insights
【明報文章】今年財政預算案從發表到通過,經過兩個月時間,並沒有得到市民太大關注。原因之一,是預算案並無提出重大的財政改變;之二是今年預算案重點放在日趨嚴峻的政府財政赤字,市民對於政府如何開源和節流,除了一般性的評論,實難有具體意見。

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Mental Health
自殺不僅終結個人生命,也令親友備受內疚、被拋棄感煎熬,並不斷探究自殺者原因。生命熱線周二(27日)發布「賽馬會釋心同行計劃」的研究報告顯示,56.2%自殺者親友由於悲傷,導致在生活上出現中度至重度功能損害;47.4%創傷後壓力(PTS) 接近臨界線,當中又以女性親友所受影響較大。

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Mental Health
Nearly half of Hongkongers who lost their loved ones to suicide are at high risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a survey has found.

In the Media
Ageing
Hong Kong’s plan to tap the multibillion-dollar “silver economy” and bolster elderly residents’ spending power requires measures that will increase their participation in the workforce and give them more income, such as a flexible retirement age and better medical insurance, analysts have said.

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Mental Health
面對家人、朋友自殺離世,親友除了悲傷,有研究報告發現,近60%自殺者親友出現中度抑鬱症狀,近半面對的創傷超出臨界點,尤其女性親友的創傷反應較大。關注團體「生命熱線」呼籲社會提供支援,幫助自殺者家屬渡過難關。

In the Media
Mental Health
為應對香港學生自殺率持續上升,撒瑪利亞會在香港賽馬會慈善信託基金的全力支持下,推行「賽馬會擁抱生命系列2.0:正向人生導航計劃」,致力為學校個持份者提供自殺預防及全方位危機介入服務,並推出「自殺守門員網上課程」,讓學生、老師及公眾學習有關預防自殺的知識及技巧。撒瑪利亞會今日(17日)在數碼港商場舉行課程啟動儀式。

In the Media
Mental Health
本港約有30萬人為抑鬱症患者,其「頑治型」患者往往不易識別,卻潛藏極高自殺風險。香港心理社會康復協會今日(29日)公布本地情緒病患者問卷調查結果,顯示本地患病1至20年的抑鬱症患者中,企圖自殺率明顯高於國際估算平均,反映本港頑治抑鬱症(Treatment-Resistant Depression)比例可能被低估。
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Social Innovation
瑞銀宣布,正式推出第三屆「香港大學-瑞銀集團可持續與社會創新領導培訓課程」(Sustainable and Social Innovation Leadership Programme,HKU-UBS SSILP)。此項目由瑞銀集團與港大社會工作及社會行政學系合辦,透過跨界別培訓和專業導師指導,協助非牟利組織(NPO)領袖提升能力,以應對行業的挑戰與機遇。





