1st Phase:
Implementation based on original idea
Late September 2021 - Early March 2022
When we first started our project, we observed that there is a lack of support
for Hong Kong pre-retirees and retirees to prepare for their retirements or cope with challenges they may face in their retired lives through online research, street interviews with people over age 50 and interview with social worker.
Therefore, we aim at constructing a website to aid
pre-retirees and retirees in Hong Kong
with the purpose of...
1) Raising their awareness in retirement planning
2) Providing them information of accessible resources
relevant to retirement planning and needs in retired life
3) Delivering psychological knowledge that may help our target audience to tackle the psychological challenges when they are preparing for retirement or having a retired life.
3 components
are included in the website:
1) Guided self-help pack
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Provide a series of questions in different aspects (lifestyle changes, social, transition, psychological, transition, health & financial) to guide our users to reflect, think and plan for their retirements. Advice are given based on their needs and concerns in their retirement as well as their progress of retirement planning. We hope to help our users to identify what they really want in their retired life and guide them to create a tailor-made retirement plan.
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2) Useful psychological knowledge relevant to retirement
Introduce a variety of psychology theories and information to broaden our users’ understanding towards retirement and ease their worries and anxiety during their transition to retirement. It is hoped that their mental health and psychological well-being to be improved,
and on the other hand, raise their awareness in retirement planning.
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3) Practical information and resources
about retirement planning and retired life in Hong Kong
We will gather information and resources about retirement planning, support and assistance that are provided by government or other organizations that are currently available in HK society.
Thus, our users can utilize the existing resources to better plan and live a fulfilling retired life.
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- At the same time, we adopt social media platforms (Facebook and Instagram) as a tool to gain exposure to our target audience and to promote our project.
Posts about preparation for retired life, fun facts about retirement and simple psychological knowledge are posted every week to interact with potential users.-
However,
unexpected difficulties and challenges appear...
While we were working on the website content and the promotion on social media,
we discovered there are some limitations and difficulties which are hard to cope with.
