Lin, a screen goddess of the Chinese-language film industry, shared her secrets on how to age with a sharp mind as she took on a new starring role as ambassador for a dementia prevention project.
She was speaking as the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Charles K Kao Foundation for Alzheimer’s Disease prepared to launch a new project named the “My memory has become better, I have been curious about many new things, I have acquired a lot of knowledge and common sense, and I love learning,” Lin, also an honorary fellow of SH Ho College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said.Chinese University and the foundation, a non-profit organisation founded by the late physicist Charles Kao Kuen – dubbed the “father of fibre optics”- and his wife Gwen Kao Wong May-wan, said they would offer free dementia screenings as part of the project.
The actress said her mother-in-law kept asking the same questions, felt frightened and suffered from bad moods.