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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 is the borrower responsible for?
- How much does the borrower receive every month?
- Lump-sum loan
- Assignment of life insurance policy
- 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
- Housing subsidy policy
- 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
- Common Area Repair Works Interest-free Loan
- Common Area Repair Works Hardship Grant
- Third Party Risks Insurance Subsidy
- Home Renovation Interest-free Loan
- Home Renovation Hardship Grant
- Subsidy in relation to the MBIS and MWIS
- Building Maintenance Grant Scheme for Elderly Owners
- Building Safety Loan Scheme
- Owners’ Corporation Formation Subsidy
Redevelopment and acquisition of property
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 Claims 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 Claims Complaints Bureau
- Questions and answers
Care by residential care homes for elderly persons
- Overview of residential care homes for elderly persons in Hong Kong
- 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)
- 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
