Warnings are mounting regarding Hong Kong's rapidly aging demographics, highlighting potential sustainability issues in its healthcare and social care systems. Policymakers are concerned about long wait times and shortages in long-term care resources.

In recent years, warnings about Hong Kong’s rapidly ageing population have become increasingly urgent. Long hospital waits, chronic shortages in long-term care and a shrinking working-age population have led many policymakers and researchers to portray ageing as an approaching demographic crisis that a small, densely populated city might be unable to absorb. In some quarters, this has fuelled dire predictions about the sustainability of Hong Kong’s healthcare and social care systems. This...