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Housing & Accomodation
Reverse mortgage
- What is a reverse mortgage?
- Who is eligible for a reverse mortgage loan?
- Key features of the reverse mortgage under the Reverse Mortgage Programme
- What costs are the borrower responsible for?
- How much does the borrower receive every month?
- Lump-sum payout
- Policy Reverse Mortgage Programme
- When does the reverse mortgage terminate?
- What happens to the property at the end of the reverse mortgage?
- Application procedures
Public housing issues
- Application for public rental housing
- Priority for the elderly
- Harmonious Families Priority Scheme (“HFPS”)
- Priority Scheme for Single Elderly Persons
- Elderly Persons Priority Scheme
- Special arrangements for elderly tenants
- Rent Assistance Scheme
- Well-off Tenants Policies
- Survey on household income
- Transfer of flats
- Tenants’ responsibilities
- Marking Scheme for Estate Management Enforcement
- Housing abuses
- General enquiries
Maintenance and safety of property
- The Owners’ Corporation as an entity of collective responsibility
- Third party insurance
- Mandatory Building Inspection Scheme
- Mandatory Window Inspection Scheme
- Government subsidy, loan and/or grant
- Common Area Repair Works Subsidy
- Building Maintenance Grant Scheme for Needy Owners
- Building Safety Loan Scheme
- Owners’ Corporation Formation Subsidy
Smart Elderly
Criminal offences commonly committed by elderly people
Common con tricks
Protection of investors and structured products
Arresting procedure, my rights and obligations
- Stopping and questioning by the police in a public place
- The right to silence
- Stopping and searching by the police in a public place
- Consequences on refusing to cooperate with the police
- Arresting a person
- Rights after arrest
- Detention of arrested persons
- Taking statements
- Bail of arrested persons
- Lodging complaints against the police
Work & retirement
Employment: Contract and wages
Employment: Termination of contract and dismissal
Employment: Holiday/leave
Employment: Work-related injuries
Age discrimination in employment
The Mandatory Provident Fund
Farewell to life
Probate
After-death arrangements
Life insurance
- What is a life insurance?
- Relevant statutory provisions
- Different types of life insurance
- Utmost Good Faith
- Non-disclosure
- Medical evidence requirements
- Common exclusions in life insurance policies
- Important matters to consider before taking out a life insurance policy
- Cooling Off Period
- Suicide and incontestability
- Practical tips for handling a life insurance claim denial by an insurance company
- The Insurance Complaints Bureau
- Questions and answers
Health & care
Entitlement and access to public health care services
Medical treatment: consent and withdrawal
Advance Directives
Taking care of a mentally incapacitated person: Guardianship or Committee
- The mentally incapacitated person
- Guardianship vs Committee
- Guardianship – When to appoint a Guardian?
- Guardianship – Who can be the Guardian?
- Guardianship – The application
- The Guardianship Order
- Emergency Guardianship Order
- Committee for a mentally incapacitated person
- Committee – The application
- The Order appointing a Committee
- Court’s powers in cases of emergency
Enduring Power of Attorney
- What is an Enduring Power of Attorney?
- Key advantages of an EPA
- The attorney
- Duties and liabilities of the attorney(s)
- The attorney(s)’ authorities and restrictions
- How to make an EPA – using the prescribed form
- How to make an EPA – signed by the donor
- How to make an EPA – certificate by a registered medical practitioner and a solicitor
- How to make an EPA – arrangements for donor who is physically incapable
- How to make an EPA – signed by the attorney(s)
- Commencement of the EPA
- Registration of the EPA
- Notification of named persons
- Revocation
- Hypothetical cases
- Questions and answers
- Guide to prescribed forms of the Enduring Power of Attorney and downloading the forms
Elder abuse
Medical negligence
Medical insurance
- What is a medical insurance?
- Different types of medical insurance
- Common exclusions in medical insurance policies
- Utmost good faith
- Non-disclosure
- Medical evidence requirements
- Important matters to consider before taking out your medical insurance policy
- Practical tips for disputing a medical claim denial by an insurance company
- The Insurance Complaints Bureau
- Questions and answers
- Overview of residential care homes for elderly persons in Hong Kong
Care by residential care homes for elderly persons
- Licensing system for residential care homes in Hong Kong
- The Residential Care Homes (Elderly Persons) Ordinance and its subsidiary legislation
- The Code of Practice for Residential Care Homes (Elderly Persons)
- Types of Residential Care Homes by Mode of Subsidy
- Types of Residential Care Homes by Care Levels
- Monitoring of residential care homes
- The Complaint Mechanism
- The Residential Care Homes (Persons with Disabilities) Ordinance
- How to select a suitable residential care home and how to adjust to group living in residential care homes?
- Elder abuse
- Common examples of accidents which may cause personal injury to elderly persons in residential care homes
