Projects
Jockey Club Mus-Health (JC Mus-Health) | 2021 - Present
The "Jockey Club Mus-Fit for Health Project," abbreviated as "Mus-Health" is a three-year community-based physical exercise program for the elderly (aged 50-70) launched by Dr. Stephen Hui Research Centre for Physical Recreation and Wellness (CPRW). The overall idea is to engage elderly people to stay physically, mentally, and socially active through a series of organized activities. Most importantly, the project will help them develop regular exercise habits to stay healthy and improve their quality of life. Mus-Health is a well-planned exercise training program supported by evidence-based research with the application of advanced technology, motivation and habit-forming theories. Due to the current pandemic situation, different modes of learning, both face-to-face and online, will also be applied to the targeted adults to help them adapt to the new normal. In due course, we aim to deliver an important message to the community that ageing does not hinder exercise participation and social connection, but sedentariness does. CPRW works together with professional consultants and trained youth and peer health leaders to implement this health promotion and motivators discovery project with the evaluation of young-old adults' physical and sociopsychological health conditions as outcome measures. Meanwhile, online platforms are established to promote physical literacy by reaching and educating middle-aged and older adults in Hong Kong about a healthy lifestyle through appropriate regular exercise.
For details please refer to:
Website: https://mus-health.hkbu.edu.hk/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mushealth.hkbu/
Jockey Club Mus-Fit Action (JC Mus-Fit) | 2018 - 2021
The "Jockey Club Mus-Fit Project," abbreviated as "Mus-Fit" is a three-year community-based physical exercise program for the elderly launched by Dr. Stephen Hui Research Centre for Physical Recreation and Wellness (CPRW) at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), with funding from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. The aim of this project is to promote a healthy and active lifestyle among the elderly in Hong Kong, improve their muscle function, and reduce the severity of musculoskeletal problems. To achieve this goal, peer leaders have been recruited and trained as Mus-Fit Ambassadors to lead their peer groups and convey health messages to the community. Experts from the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at CUHK and Exercise Scientists from CPRW at HKBU worked together to organize an Ambassador Training Course and implement this health promotion project for the elderly in Hong Kong, with the evaluation of their muscu-loskeletal health conditions as outcome measures. We also established online platforms to reach and educate the elderly in Hong Kong about a healthy lifestyle through regular exercise, with a focus on muscle strengthening to prevent and relieve musculoskeletal problems, especially in the shoulder, neck, lower back, and knees.
For details please refer to:
Website: https://www.mus-fit.hk/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MusFit.HK/
Jockey Club Brain Invigoration and Gross Motor Activation Programme (JC BIGMAP) | 2018 - 2019
With the exponentially ageing population in Hong Kong, research team from Dr. Stephen Hui Research Centre for Physical Recreation and Wellness (CPRW) developed BIGMAP: a theory-based wellness program for community-dwelling older adults. BIGMAP was an 18-month project which has unique features of integrating neuro-exercise in cognitive-cum-physical game-oriented activities that aimed at improving cognitive and physical functions and thus at preventing dementia. The Jockey Club funded BIGMAP has been well-received as evidenced in 33 elderly centres (from 16 districts) with 819 older adults, who participated in the eight-week exercise training program and leader training workshops. Participants (n=466) improved significantly on pre-post measures. 89% believed their health had benefited. Additionally, the workshops targeted community centre staff, volunteers, and university students; it provided opportunities for trainee leaders to work with professional program leaders. Furthermore, results from the 18-month follow-up survey showed that BIGMAP has been regularly adopted by 90% of the participating centres. From ongoing research, the BIGMAP project has had a significant impact in elder-care community by contributing to the older adults’ positive health through deliverables of non-patented take-home exercise kits, teaching manual with video, exercise leaflets, exercise program and train-the-trainer workshops.
