Cost barriers leave Hong Kong’s low-income elderly shut out of advance medical directives despite landmark law

Seventy-eight-year-old Fung Ho-chu has been hoping to put her wishes on end-of-life treatment into writing ever since she learned that a new law on advance medical directives (AMD) came into effect in late July. But as a senior living on government welfare in low-income Sham Shui Po, the costs of th