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Strangers Sharing Space And Lives : A Qualitative Study Of The Attitudes Of Single Elderly Persons Living In Shared Accommodation In Hong Kong Public Housing Estates = 「同居共住：長者對合住公共房屋的意見調查硏究」硏究報告, David Rosser Phillips, Cheung Ming, Alfred Chan, Kit Ling Luk
Strangers Sharing Space And Lives : A Qualitative Study Of The Attitudes Of Single Elderly Persons Living In Shared Accommodation In Hong Kong Public Housing Estates = 「同居共住：長者對合住公共房屋的意見調查硏究」硏究報告, David Rosser Phillips, Cheung Ming, Alfred Chan, Kit Ling Luk
APIAS Research Report 研究報告
In response to the perceived housing needs of single elderly people, the "Housing for Senior Citizens" Scheme has been developed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority since the mid-1980s to provide shared housing for unrelated elderly people. Under this scheme, they live together in an apartment unit with individual bedrooms, but sharing certain facilities. This group is fairly numerous and, in Hong Kong in 1998, there were about 110,000 elderly people living alone for various reasons，among whom 34,000 were tenants in public housing estates. Despite some advantages, shared living for any age group can however lead to potential problems.
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