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Improving older adults' functional ability through service use in a home care program in Hong Kong
- Authors:
- CHEUNG Chau-kui, NGAN Raymond Man-Hung
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 15(3), May 2005, pp.154-164.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Despite past findings about the contribution of home care services to older users’ functional ability, the effective processes and components of the services are not transparent. Such processes appear to rely on the actual use of component services of the home care programme. The study gathered 116 observations during 2 years concerning 49 home care service users in Hong Kong. The study shows that an older user maintained better functional ability with a longer time of using a home care program in Hong Kong using the service. The time effect, in turn, was primarily due to the increased use of seven services provided by the programme. Among the service components, the home-nursing services generated a unique contribution to the user's functional ability, with its prior score controlled. Multidisciplinary services under case management underpin an effective home care programme.
Age discrimination in the labour market from the perspectives of employers and older workers
- Authors:
- CHEUNG Chau-Kiu, KAM Ping Kwong, NGAN Raymond Man-Hung
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 54(1), January 2011, pp.118-136.
- Publisher:
- Sage
As older workers need to continue in employment, age discrimination becomes more frequent. As organisations cut costs, they often implement discriminatory practice against older works. This paper highlights the results from a study on age discrimination against older workers in Hong Kong. Seven hundred and eighty seven older workers, aged 45 and over, and 283 employers who were managers responsible for personnel or human resources management, or for hiring people for organisations, were surveyed. The study aimed to reveal the influences of the organisational goals of profit-making and social responsibility on age discrimination, along with influences from negative stereotyping and other factors. Findings indicated that the social responsibility goal tends to be more influential than negative stereotyping on age discrimination. In contrast, the profit-making goal did not display a significant effect on age discrimination. In conclusion, the study showed that the pursuit of profit did not constitute a strong cause for age discrimination. Therefore, an environment fair to older workers would not deprive an organisation of profit. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.
Community integration of older people with developmental disabilities in Hong Kong
- Authors:
- NGAN Raymond Man-Hung, LI Mark Kin-yin, CHEUNG Jacky Chau-kiu
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2(2/3), 2003, pp.101-119.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
To understand the community integration of adults with developmental disabilities in Hong Kong, a comprehensive measure includes four dimensions, pertaining to social activity, social services, interpersonal behavior, and people involved in social interaction. Applying this measure to 692 adults (aged 15-62), the territory-wide study finds that these adults lack company for out-of-home activities and community activities despite their higher knowledge, assertiveness, social interaction, and feeling accepted in the community. With the strengthening of many conditions (including knowledge and community support) for community integration, the adults tend to have greater need for empowerment to enhance their active participation in community activities.
Helping informal caregivers with responsive communication in the adult day care center
- Authors:
- CHEUNG Chau-Kiu, NGAN Raymond Man-Hung
- Journal article citation:
- Administration in Social Work, 31(2), 2007, pp.27-48.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Informal caregivers of older users of adult day care centers are important clients for promoting the quality of services related to them. From the perspective of quality management, responsive communication and training provided to informal caregivers would enhance the caregivers' knowledge about the services of the center and thereby their perception about the helpfulness of the center. These effects are the focus of examination in the present study, which surveyed 508 caregivers affiliated with 22 adult day care centers in Hong Kong. The study measured the responsive communication of the center by aggregating caregivers' perceptions. Results support the hypothesis by revealing the contributions of the responsive communication of the center and the caregiver's knowledge to the caregiver's perception of helpfulness of the center. Moreover, responsive communication appears to foster the caregiver's service knowledge. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).