Advisory Committee of 'The Opportunities for the Elderly Project'

To take forward the Government's policy objective of 'Promoting a Sense of Worthiness among the Elders', the Social Welfare Department (SWD), launched the Opportunities for the Elderly Project (OEP) in 1998-1999 with funding support from the Lotteries Fund. Since April 2003, the OEP has become regularised. Through subsidising various social service organisations, district organisations and educational institutes, etc., to carry out a wide range of programmes, the OEP has been providing various opportunities for the elderly persons to unleash their potentials, further their contribution to society and cultivate a sense of self-worthiness.

The SWD has set up the Advisory Committee since the commencement of the Opportunities for the Elderly Project. The Committee members, appointed by the Director of Social Welfare, come from multi-disciplines including elderly service, medical profession (geriatric), academic and elderly representative. The terms of reference of the Committee are as follows:

•   To advise the SWD on the OEP in the area of policy direction, publicity strategies and programme planning to ensure that the implementation and focus of OEP are echoing the policy objective for elderly service; and
• To adjudicate and award the outstanding OEP programmes.

The membership list of the Advisory Committee for 2024-2025 is as follows :

Secretariat