* a leadership program designed to encourage more faculty members and post doctoral students to specialize in gerontology;

* an education and training program for care workers and professionals who are the front line of working with the elderly;

* a public education program targeting the whole community;

* a demonstration unit to pilot new approaches to home and residential care taught in the education and training program;

* an evaluation of each piece of the project.

"CADENZA" stands for "Celebrate their Accomplishments; Discover their Effervescence and Never-ending Zest as they Age." The name was chosen because the Italian word cadenza, a musical term referring to a virtuoso solo passage near the end of a movement in a concerto, is also used figuratively to describe the apex of one's life and the celebration of a lifetime's accomplishments.

“If we can successfully implement this, we could shape the way long term care is provided in other places,” Lum said. “My hope is that Hong Kong is the window to the west in developing this model and the it will get repeated in other cities including cities in China.”