Hong Kong

Abstract

Hong Kong is a westernized city but essentially a Chinese community with Confucian cultural heritage. Lifelong learning for older people is embedded in a normative framework of the Chinese people in maintaining a learning aptitude. Lifelong learning is conducive to promoting older people’s active ageing and enhancing their quality of life, and there is virtue in promoting elder learning in a society. It can also be an empowering process. There can be different lifelong learning models, as categorized according to the recipient targets and the goals of education that can be adopted by any society. The Hong Kong community, the older people, the providers, the government, and the business sector, should collaborate to promote a model or even a mixture of different models that caters to the specific needs of the Hong Kong elder population, with reference to the socio-economic context of Hong Kong in face of an ageing population.