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Date: October 8, 2003 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:00 to 13:30
Venue: Telemedicine Centre, Room A2-08, 2/F, Academic and Administration
Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Canada's health care system is built
on universal access to physician and hospital services. Yet, an
aging population suffers primarily from chronic conditions for which
medicine has no cure. While early American research suggested that
community home care was not a cost-effective alternative for seniors,
recent Canadian research has demonstrated that home care services
can be cost-effective. At the seminar, Professor Chappell will present
three of these studies, namely the cost to government of home care
compared with institutional long-term care; the cost of home care
when informal care is taken into consideration; and the preventive
role of home care in cost-effectiveness. The role of hospital care
for chronically ill elderly, the difficulties of re-orienting the
Canadian system and lessons for Hong Kong will also be discussed.
Professor Neena L. Chappell is currently
Professor of Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria,
Canada. In 1992, she became the first Director of the Centre on
Aging at the University of Victoria, and held the position until
she stepped down in 2002 to pursue her research initiatives. Over
the past decade, Professor Chappell has developed the Centre into
a world-class research facility that is accessible to the community-at-large.
In 2001, she received the honorary Canada Research Chair in Social
Gerontology.
Her previous experience as Founding
Director of the Centre on Aging at the University of Manitoba helped
define her commitment to research of the highest caliber in aging.
Professor Chappell's critical research and writing on aging in Canada's
society are motivated by a strong commitment to improving the quality
of life of seniors and the caliber of care they receive.
Her current research focuses on respite
care for caregivers, care for people with dementia, drug policies,
aging and ethnicity, quality of community-based home and residential
care and the Canadian health care system.
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