Addressing ageing population is top priority: experts

[RTHK] - 12/31/2024

Hong Kong should urgently address its ageing population as well as issues that come with demographic changes, according to family experts. On the sidelines of the Asian Family Summit 2024, the experts also issued a warning about how declining fertility rates and rising life expectancies would (…)



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