Subsistence Life and Aging Agony: A Case of Cultural Affluence in Hong Kong

ACM CHIL 2021 : proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning : April 8-9, 2021, Virtual Event. ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (2021 : Online) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 DOI:10.3998/sdi.1822

William W.L. Wong

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This article aims to review the development of aging policy of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), China by analyzing cases of 50 older people collected randomly from newspapers from 1997–2017. Under the law, Hong Kong is required to have a balanced fiscal budget. Restrictions on social welfare spending result in making provisions basic and minimal. The severe shortfall of formal welfare provision has left the family to take care of their own older and vulnerable members, akin of an informal security welfare regime of the global south. The cumulative effect of the lack of provision, poor policy performance, and the increasing age and frailty of older caregiver undermines the sustainability of informal security welfare regime. The Hong Kong experience is especially relevant in the understanding of fiscal austerity governance in both global north and south.

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温饱生活与老去苦恼:香港文化富足的个案

本文旨在通过分析1997-2017年在报纸上随机抽取的50名老年人的案例，回顾中国香港特别行政区老龄化政策的发展。根据该法律，香港必须拥有平衡的财政预算。对社会福利支出的限制导致提供基本和最低限度的规定。正式福利供应的严重短缺，使得家庭不得不照顾自己年长和脆弱的成员，类似于全球南方的非正式安全福利制度。服务供应不足、政策表现不佳以及老年照顾者年龄和体弱多病的增加，这些累积效应破坏了非正式保障福利制度的可持续性。香港的经验对理解全球南北两国的财政紧缩治理尤为重要。

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