Ageing with Dignity in Hong Kong and Asia Holistic and Humanistic Care

Dr Vincent Law is Senior Lecturer of School of Professional Education and Executive Development (SPEED) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He is also Founding Member and Academic Convenor of the Centre for Ageing and Healthcare Management Research (CAHMR) at PolyU SPEED. Being an experienced researcher in public policy, he participated in some large-scale consultancy or research projects on public policy and public engagement with the Hong Kong government in recent years. He authored a few academic journal papers and book chapters on health care and sustainability and published four Chinese books on Chinese wisdom.

Dr Ben Y. F. Fong is a Specialist in Community Medicine, holding Honorary Clinical Associate Professorship at the two local medical schools in Hong Kong, China. He is currently the Professor of Practice (Health Studies) of the College of Professional and Continuing Education, and Centre Director of the Centre for Ageing and Healthcare Management Research of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He also holds honorary appointments at the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies and Hong Kong Institute of Integrated Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the President of Hong Kong College of Community Health Practitioners and has contributed to The Routledge Handbook of Public Health and the Community (2021), Primary Care Revisited: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for a New Era (2020), a training manual for general practitioners in China published by the People’s Medical Publishing House in Beijing (2020), 30 health books in Chinese, and over 40 journal papers.