The World Health Organization’s (“WHO”) Regional Director for the Western Pacific, Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala, visited the Jockey Club CADENZA Hub (“JCCH”) at Tai Po on 14 March, where he learned about the Club’s decades-long contribution to the development of primary health-care services in Hong Kong for the young olds (50+) and elders (60+). The trip formed part of his official visit to Hong Kong and Macau to learn about the development of primary health care in the two special administrative regions.
Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala, WHO’s Regional Director for the Western Pacific (3rd right), Imelda Chan, Head of Charities (Positive Ageing & Elderly Care; and Healthy Community) of The Hong Kong Jockey Club (1st right), and Brian San, Co-secretary General of IoP (3rd left), tour the Jockey Club CADENZA Hub to learn more about its day care and primary care services such as dietetic cooking class and Chinese medicine clinic.
Accompanied by Imelda Chan, Head of Charities (Positive Ageing & Elderly Care; and Healthy Community) of The Hong Kong Jockey Club, and Brian San, Co-Secretary General of the Institute of Philanthropy (“IoP”), Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala was briefed on the latest primary care services and facilities at the CADENZA Hub and also met some of the beneficiaries.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Charities Trust initiated the “CADENZA: A Jockey Club Initiative for Seniors” project in 2006 to improve quality of life and care for the elderly. JCCH was set up in 2009 as a community project under CADENZA, providing one-stop and diversified services including primary care and day care.
Guests tour the Jockey Club CADENZA Hub to learn more about its day care and primary care services.
“It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to learn about the work and efforts of the CADENZA Hub in promoting and implementing primary health-care services for the young olds and the elders,” Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala said. “The experiences and feedback collected from these services will be a great reference for the WHO’s efforts to enhance global health standards, particularly in advancing primary health care.”
Imelda Chan, Head of Charities (Positive Ageing & Elderly Care; and Healthy Community), said: “An ageing population presents a significant challenge for Hong Kong and the rest of the world, increasing the pressure on public health-care systems. We are honoured to have this opportunity to share the Club’s efforts with WHO in adopting innovative approaches to strengthen primary health-care services and create an elderly- and age-friendly community environment.”
Guests tour the Jockey Club CADENZA Hub to learn more about its day care and primary care services.
JCCH uses a “medical-social collaboration” model providing diversified services for the elderly including day care for people with dementia featuring therapeutic programmes, basic nursing care and rehabilitation exercises to improve their self-care capabilities and delay cognitive decline. It also offers primary-care services such as eye examinations, aural screening, traditional Chinese medicine (“TCM”) consultations, advice on diet and nutrition as well as workshops and training programmes on monitoring well-being to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent premature frailty. Since its inception, JCCH seen more than 400,000 people attend its primary care and day-care services.
In recent years, JCCH has also served as a testing ground for collaboration on new pilot projects with universities and non-governmental organisations before they get scaled up to territory wide programmes. These include the Jockey Club Integrating TCM into Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Project, which promotes chronic disease prevention and management through TCM screening and treatment; the Jockey Club “Shining Journey 50+”Women Wellness Programme, which takes reference from WHO’s Integrated Care for Older People framework to promote wellness for women aged 50 to 64; and the Trust-initiated Jockey Club Community eHealth Care Project, which applies eHealth technology to encourage elderly people to improve their self-management.
Visiting the Jockey Club CADENZA Hub are Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala, WHO’s Regional Director for the Western Pacific (4th right); Imelda Chan, Head of Charities (Positive Ageing & Elderly Care; and Healthy Community) of The Hong Kong Jockey Club (4th left); Brian San, Co secretary General of IoP (3rd right); Professor Sophia Chan, Convenor of the Advisory Committee of the Jockey Club Pharm+ Community Medication Service Network (3rd left); Professor Timothy Kwok, Director of the Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing (2nd right);Dr Liu Yue, Executive Officer of the Division of Programme Management for WHO’s Western Pacific Reginal Office (2nd left); Florence Ho, General Manager of the Jockey Club CADENZA Hub (1st right); and Professor Bian Zhaoxiang, Associate Vice-President (Clinical Chinese Medicine) of Hong Kong Baptist University (1st left).
In addition to building a healthy community in Hong Kong, the Club and its Charities Trust established IoP in 2023 as a “think-fund-do” tank to promote philanthropic thought-leadership. It aims to professionalise the sector and fund impactful philanthropy, including contributing to WHO’s efforts to tackle critical global health challenges. This January, IoP hosted a special event at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2025 in Bangkok, where it announced a donation of US$1.9 million (HK$14.8 million) to fund a three-year pilot project by the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office. This focuses on controlling and managing non-communicable diseases within primary-care settings in the Philippines, Tonga and the Solomon Islands.
PHOENIX (AP) — The case of Lori Vallow Daybell took investigators from Arizona to Idaho and Hawaii to unravel a twisted plot built on bizarre claims that evil spirits possessed her family.
She already is serving three life sentences in Idaho for murdering her two youngest children and conspiring to kill her lover's wife.
Now, she faces another life sentence after an Arizona jury on Tuesday found Vallow Daybell guilty of conspiring with her brother to kill her estranged husband, Charles Vallow.
Prosecutors say she was after money from a life insurance policy. They also contend doomsday prophecies peddled by her boyfriend and soon-to-be husband Chad Daybell played a role in Vallow's 2019 death in metro Phoenix.
Vallow Daybell says her brother Alex acted in self-defense, and that Vallow's death wasn't a crime but a tragedy.
Jurors deliberated for about three hours over two days. Vallow Daybell, who isn't a lawyer, represented herself in the case and didn’t call any witnesses or put on any evidence in her defense.
Here’s a look at some of the people connected to the case:
Vallow Daybell, 51, a beautician by trade and mother of three, has been married five times.
She married her high school sweetheart when she was 19. It ended quickly, but she married again in her early 20s and had a son. With her third husband, Joseph Ryan, she had a daughter. That ended after a few years, and Ryan later died in his home of a suspected heart attack.
In the summer of 2019, her fourth husband — Charles Vallow — was shot to death by her brother.
That's when she moved with her daughter, Tylee Ryan, and younger son, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, to southeastern Idaho, where she could be closer to Chad. That September, the children disappeared, and prosecutors said Chad and his wife at the time, Tammy Daybell, applied to increase Tammy’s life insurance benefit.
Tammy died the next month, and Chad Daybell and Vallow Daybell got married two weeks later. Authorities grew suspicious about Tammy's death and had her body exhumed for an autopsy, which determined she died of asphyxiation. The children’s bodies were found in 2020, buried in Chad Daybell’s yard.
During her sentencing, Vallow Daybell said “accidental deaths happen.” She claimed the spirits of the three victims visited her regularly and were all happy in the “spirit world.”
In Arizona, she will be sentenced for her role in Vallow's death after she again goes on trial, which is scheduled for later this year. She is charged in that case with conspiring to murder Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-husband of Vallow Daybell’s niece. Boudreaux survived the attempt.
Charles Vallow, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, entered the picture several months after Vallow Daybell and Joseph Ryan divorced. Vallow Daybell joined the faith — commonly known as the Mormon church — and the two married in 2006. They later adopted “JJ” Vallow.
The marriage soured by 2019. Charles filed for divorce, saying in court papers that Vallow Daybell believed herself to be a deity tasked with helping usher in the biblical apocalypse.
The two were estranged but still married when Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, shot and killed Charles outside his suburban Phoenix home. Cox told police the shooting was in self-defense and was never charged in the case. He died months later of a blood clot in his lungs.
Chad Daybell, 56, married Tammy Daybell in 1990. They had five kids and a home in rural southeastern Idaho. He also was a member of the Mormon church and loosely crafted his works of fiction on its teachings.
Prosecutors have said that Chad Daybell met Vallow Daybell at a conference in Utah in 2018. Chad insisted they had been married in several previous lives and that she was a “sexual goddess” who would help him save the world. The couple led a group of friends in trying to cast out evil spirits by praying and doing what they called “energy work," prosecutors said.
They believed a person could become a zombie in some cases, and the only way to banish a zombie was to kill the person, friends said. One friend told police she heard Vallow Daybell call the children zombies before they disappeared.
Idaho jurors convicted Chad in 2024 in the triple-murder plot. They deliberated just over a day before sentencing him to death.
Friends of Cox and Vallow Daybell testified in 2023 that the siblings were very close and that Cox believed he was put on Earth to serve as her protector.
During Vallow Daybell’s trial in Idaho, prosecutors presented witnesses and evidence that appeared to tie Cox to the deaths, including GPS data on his phone that was traced to where the children’s bodies were found.
Cox's wife, Zulema Pastenes, testified that her husband also believed people could be possessed and become zombies. She said Cox called himself the “fall guy” after learning that Tammy's body was being exhumed, but he didn't elaborate.
Adam Cox, 56, and one of Vallow Daybell’s four siblings, testified at her Arizona trial on behalf of the prosecution.
Cox was living in Wichita, Kansas, at the time of the alleged crime. Cox and Vallow had planned an intervention to bring Vallow Daybell back into the mainstream of their shared faith in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints before Vallow was killed.
Cox said Vallow Daybell told people that Vallow was no longer living and that a zombie was inside his body.
Cox, a morning radio host at the time, traveled to the Phoenix area for the intervention. He was supposed to stay with his brother Alex, but Alex didn’t respond to his calls or texts. He later learned that Alex was staying at Vallow Daybell’s home, leading Adam to become suspicious his siblings were planning something.
Alex Cox claimed he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot Vallow. Cox died five months later from what medical examiners said was a blood clot in his lungs.
The intervention never occurred. Adam Cox said he learned of Vallow’s death about two days after from a friend who found out online.
Kay Woodcock is Vallow's sister and JJ’s grandmother. She testified in the Arizona trial.
In 2019, she persuaded police in Idaho to check on JJ after her regular phone calls and visits with the boy stopped. A search for JJ and Tylee ensued, with police asking for the public's help and the Woodcock family creating a website where people could leave tips. A reward also was offered.
Charles Vallow adopted JJ as a baby because the boy's biological parents were unable to care for him.
In the Idaho proceedings, Woodcock told jurors that JJ was born with some disabilities and was diagnosed with autism. After Charles died, Woodcock feared Vallow Daybell no longer wanted the boy. She also worried that JJ may had witnessed his father’s death.
Lori Vallow Daybell's uncle Rex Conner stands outside of Maricopa County Courthouse as he attends the Arizona murder trial of Vallow Daybell, who's charged with conspiring to murder her estranged husband, Monday, April 21, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Colby Ryan arrives at Maricopa County Superior Court for the murder trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, his mother, who's charged with conspiring to murder her estranged husband, Monday, April 21, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
FILE - Larry Woodcock speaks to media members at the Rexburg Standard Journal Newspaper in Rexburg, Idaho on Jan. 7, 2020, while holding a reward flyer for Joshua Vallow and Tylee Ryan. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP, File)
FILE - Kay Woodcock, center, and Larry Woodcock, right, address the media outside court at a hearing for Lori Vallow Daybell on Friday, March 6, 2020, in Rexburg, Idaho. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP, Pool)
FILE - Chad Daybell sits at the defense table after the jury's verdict in his murder trial was read at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Kyle Green, Pool, File)
FILE - Lori Vallow Daybell talks with her lawyers before the jury's verdict is read at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho on May 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Kyle Green, File)
