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Social inclusion of the older population in response to the 2008 financial tsunami in Hong Kong

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2012

CHAU-KIU CHEUNG  and
KWAN-KWOK LEUNG
CHAU-KIU CHEUNG*
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
KWAN-KWOK LEUNG
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
*
Address for correspondence: Chau-kiu Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China. E-mail: ssjacky@cityu.edu.hk
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Abstract

Social inclusion of the older population in employment, housing, social protection and other livelihood aspects was predicted to suffer because of the financial tsunami in Hong Kong in 2008. An expected mitigating factor of the impact on social inclusion was social cohesion, which is the focus of the present study. A total of 1,352 Hong Kong Chinese adults were surveyed in 2009. The results show that social cohesion is perceived in Hong Kong to have mitigated the negative impact of the financial tsunami in terms of support for public policy relating to social inclusion of the older population. These results have implications for sustaining social cohesion as a means to promote the social inclusion of the older population.

Keywords

social inclusionsfinancial crisissocial cohesionfinancial losssocial welfareself-interest
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Ageing & Society , Volume 33 , Issue 1: Ageing and Social Inclusion/Exclusion , January 2013 , pp. 64 - 88
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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