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Monday, June 12, 1972
COMPETITION ON SENSE OF ALERTNESS
Elderly In Kowloon Districts In Unusual Project
The elderly aged 60 and above in Kowloon Tsai or Shek Kip Mei will
take part in an unusual competition on Friday, June 16, in the Social Welfare
Department's Tai Hang Tung Community Centre when they compete for prizes on
the continuing alertness of their different senses.
The competition is being sub-divided so that participants will be
invited to excel, not necessarily in general awareness, but in each of these
separate categories of sensitivity: the eye, the ear, the mouth, the nose,
and the hand.
The eye competition will determine awareness of sight assessment of
the weight, height, or quantity of selected object. Determination of the
ear's working will require participants to distinguish between the sounds of
different objects to identify them.
The taste of different foods, and their identification, will make up
the mouth competition, and the same technique will be applied, with modifications,
to see what extent the nose and the sense of touch are still functioning.
The competition is being organised by the Old People's Service Team
and the Kwan Lok Club, both attached to the Centre. It forms part of the Centre's
continuing series of programmes designed to associate the young with projects
involving the aged as an expression of community concern.
Prizes will comprise hampers filled with food especially selected for
the palates of the elderly.
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