ICT delivery of health information for older adults in Hong Kong

Abstract

Although there is a general trend of aging as the expected longitude increase for human being, the

developing countries which, according to the report of WHO, have grown old even before grow rich

face a more challenging state than the developed countries. These countries, especially their rural parts,

are less likely to adapt to the aging trend with relatively smaller medical budget, less developed

professional training of care takers, and a lack of public awareness of prevention and treatment of

geriatric disease.(Organization, Health, Promotion, & Course, 2011) On the other hand, it indicates a

big stage for distant medical service to play because of its lower cost of implementation and

effectiveness in controlling the overall medical expenditure given such service would help to prevent

and control at a earlier stage of disease. Therefore in developing countries like China and for

population like the older citizen who has less mobility, online healthcare information platform is

expected to play a much more important role than in developed countries. At the same time,

experienced can be borrowed from investigations and installations of online platform of health

information designed for the older population where they usually serve as a supplement to the primary

health care facility in developed countries like UK.