by admin | Nov 19, 2025
About 80,000 people in Hong Kong live in nursing homes and 60 per cent of them suffer varying degrees of swallowing difficulties. That means if food is not prepared to the appropriate texture and size, they risk choking. Often, nursing homes compromise with a puree of...
by admin | May 14, 2025
“These positive associations were observed in more than 87,000 people across 23 countries and, representing a wide variety of cultural and economic contexts,” said Professor Zhang Qingpeng, from the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy and HKU Musketeers Foundation...
by admin | Oct 23, 2024
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Professor Doris Yu Sau-fung of the School of Nursing was overseeing a team of nurses working to identify and engage with ‘hidden elders’ – those who live alone – and bring them to community facilities for health...
by admin | Nov 23, 2023
Few people in Hong Kong have the breadth of understanding about COVID-19 and how to deal with it as Professor Sophia Chan Siu-chee. She was Secretary for Food and Health from 2017 to 2022 and was charged with planning Hong Kong’s response to the pandemic. When she...
