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Hong Kong Connection：Three Instruments of Peace

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With a growing aging population in Hong Kong, the number of seniors living alone or “empty-nest elderly” in the city has soared recently. It presents an unprecedented set of challenges to the society.

"Three Instruments of Peace” refer to a Will, an Advance Directive in relation to medical treatment, and an Enduring Power of Attorney, among which only will making is widely known to the general public, while Advance Directives and enduring powers of attorney remain obscure to the community at large.

If a person with dementia is rendered incapable of attending to their finances and losing other abilities to perform daily tasks, the will they made will not take effect when they are alive. On the other hand, Enduring Powers of Attorney are instruments created to ensure that, if an older person gets ill and becomes mentally incapable, the person appointed as attorney can act in relation to the property and financial affairs on their behalf.

The Enduring Powers of Attorney Ordinance was enacted in 1997, but few people have created such instruments ever since and public awareness of it remains low. In response to the challenges posed by population aging in Hong Kong, how can the elderly have better end-of-life planning?
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문화 - Culture
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Advance Directives, Enduring powers of attorney, Will
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