Alleviate Frailty and Promote Active Lifestyle

In 2015, the Elderly Fund partnered with The University of Hong Kong (“HKU”) to implement Project GrandMove (“GrandMove®”), a 3-year project that aims to establish a structured exercise intervention programme that includes both aerobics and resistance exercises to alleviate frailty among Hong Kong’s ageing population and promote lifestyle changes for elders to add exercises as part of their habits, while training young-olds as exercise coaches to promote healthy and active ageing. GrandMove® is led by Prof. Terry Lum, Professor and Head of Department of Social Work and Social Administration at HKU, and Dr. Gloria Wong, Assistant Professor of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at HKU. GrandMove® is also jointly organized by Sau Po Centre on Ageing and Centre for Sports and Exercise (formerly Institute of Human Performance) of HKU. At community level, 14 NGOs have joined the project.

In 2017, the programme (“GrandMove+”) was extended to adult day care centers and residential care homes to support frail older people. From 2019 to 2023, the GrandMove exercise programme was disseminated in the community and elderly homes with 4 NGO Operators specializing in different districts.

In 2024, the programme (“GrandMove For All”) was approved to further extended for 3 years. HKU will develop and pilot test a new Prevention exercise intervention for robust but inactive older people and develop a new GrandMove Ambassador Programme to improve older people’s health literacy and promote frailty prevention. Over the past years, over 230 coaches were trained, 116 service units participated and more than 1,960 older people benefitted from the programme.

Funding amount (research and service): $37.33M

To see the list of NGOs participating in GrandMove®, please click here.

To know more about GrandMove®, please visit the project’s website and Facebook page, or this TVB news segment video introducing the project below: