Age-friendly Community and the Decade of Healthy Ageing

Academic Output

Journals

Chui, H.K, Lu, S., Guo, Y., Chan, O.F., C., Cheung, C.S., Guo, Y., Liu, Y., Chan, S. W., Tang, W.M., Au, A., Wen, Z., Yu, R., Bai, X., Mok, K.H., Woo, J., & Lum, T. Y. (2022). Changes in older adults' perceptions of age-friendliness in Hong Kong: A three-year mixed-methods study. Cities, 127, 103748. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103748

Lai, E. T., Yu, R., & Woo, J. (2021). Social gradient of self-rated health in older people—the moderating/mediating role of sense of community. Age and Ageing, 50(4), 1283-1289. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa277

Woo, J., Leung, D., Yu, R. Lee, R. & Wong, H. (2021). Factors Affecting Trends in Societal Indicators of Ageing Well in Hong Kong: Policies, Politics and Pandemics. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, 25(3), 325-329. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12603-020-1488-z

Woo, J., Yu, R., Cheung, K., & Lai, E.T.C. (2020). How Much Money Is Enough? Poverty and Health in Older People. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, 24(10), 1111-1115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12603-020-1444-y

Fang, Y., Chau, A. K. C., Fung, H. H., & Woo, J. (2019). Loneliness shapes the relationship between information and communications technology use and psychological adjustment among older adults. Gerontology, 65(2), 198-206. https://doi.org/10.1159/000495461

Yu, R., Wong, M. & Woo, J. (2019). Perceptions of neighborhood environment, sense of community, and self-rated health: An age-friendly city project in Hong Kong. Journal of Urban Health, 96(2), 276-288. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-018-00331-3

Sun, Y., Phillips, D. R., & Wong, M. (2018). A study of housing typology and perceived age-friendliness in an established Hong Kong new town: A person-environment perspective. Geoforum, 88, 17-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.11.001

Sun, Y., Chao, T.Y., Woo, J., & Au, D.W.H. (2017). An institutional perspective of "Glocalization" in two Asian tigers: The "Structure-Agent-Strategy" of building an age-friendly city. Habitat International, 59, 101–109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2016.11.013

Wong, M., Yu, R. & Woo, J. (2017). Effects of perceived neighbourhood environments on self-rated health among community-dwelling older Chinese. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(6), 614. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14060614

Wong, A., Chau, A. K. C., Fang, Y., & Woo, J. (2017). Illuminating the psychological experience of elderly loneliness from a societal perspective: A qualitative study of alienation between older people and society. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(7), 824. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14070824

Fang, Y., Chau, A. K. C., Wong, A., Fung, H. H., & Woo, J. (2017). Information and communicative technology use enhances psychological well-being of older adults: The roles of age, social connectedness, and frailty status. Aging & Mental Health, 22(11), 1516-1524. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2017.1358354

Woo, J., Yu, R., Leung, J., Wong, M., Lau, K., Ho, H.C., Yip, H.M., Kwok, J., Lai, D., Tsien, T. & Au, A. (2017). Urban characteristics influencing health of older people: What matters. International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science, 2(12): 1561-1568. https://doi.org/10.23958/ijirms/vol02-i12/01

Book Chapters

Woo, J., Cheung, K., & Chau, A., (2023). Strategies for creating an age-friendly city: Hong Kong as a case study. Hong Kong: The CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing. PDF

Sun, Y., Chao, T. Y. S., Au, D. W., Yung, E. H., & Woo, J. (2022). The age-friendly movement in an Asian context. In Christie M. Gardiner & Eileen O'Brien Webb (Eds.), The Age-friendly lens (pp. 89-103). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003038658

Phillips, D. R., Woo, J., Cheung, F., Wong, M., & Chau, P. H. (2018). Exploring the age-friendliness of Hong Kong: Opportunities, initiatives and challenges in an ageing Asian city. In T. Buffel, S. Handler, & C. Phillipson (Eds.), Age-Friendly cities and communities: A global perspective. Bristol: Policy Press Scholarship Online. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447331315.003.0007

Sun, Y., Wong, A., Chau, A. K. C., Wong, M. & Woo, J. (2017). Listening to the Elders: The Case of a Bottom-Up, Context-Sensitive Place Audit in Tai Po District of Hong Kong. In T.Y.S. Chao (Ed.), Planning for greying cities: Age-friendly city planning and design research and practice (pp.72-88). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315442884

Conference Proceedings

Fang, Y., Chau, A. K. C., Fung, H. H., & Woo, J. (2019). Loneliness shapes the relationship between ICT use and psychological adjustment among older adults [Oral presentation]. The GSA 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting, Austin, U.S.A. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1950

Chau, A. K. C., Wong, A., Fang, Y., & Woo, J. (2018). Demographic, health, social and environmental correlates of loneliness in Hong Kong older adults [Oral presentation] The U.S.-Hong Kong 2018 Conference: Aging across Time and Contexts, Hong Kong, China.

Chau, A. K. C., Fang, Y., Wong, A., Yu, R., & Woo, J. (2017). Social connections mediate the association between frailty and meaning in life in older people [Poster presentation]. The 21st IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics on "Global Aging and Health: Bridging Science, Policy, and Practice", San Francisco, USA. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igx004.2027

Yu, R., Woo, J., Lum, T., Lou, V., Ma, C., Kwan, M., Au, A. & Lai ,D.W. (2017). Building Hong Kong into an Age-friendly city: Results from a baseline assessment [Poster presentation]. The 21st IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics on "Global Aging and Health: Bridging Science, Policy, and Practice", San Francisco, USA. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igx004.3985

Yu, R., Wong, M., Chow, J., Miao, H.Y. & Woo, J. (2016). Association between perceived social environment and sense of community in older Chinese people in Hong Kong [Poster presentation]. The JCSPHPC 15th Anniversary International Conference on "Innovations in Public Health Sciences", Hong Kong, China.