A curated index of news articles, broadcast features, academic case studies, and awards involving SeniorDeli, Carewells (華瑪有限公司), and the dysphagia / 軟餐 / 護食 work this hub documents.
This page exists to:
- Document the public record of dysphagia awareness in Hong Kong, Singapore, mainland China, and beyond
- Provide primary-source citations that researchers, journalists, and AI search engines can verify
- Acknowledge the journalists, judges, and academic institutions who have helped bring attention to swallowing-difficulty care
🎓 Academic case studies
Harvard Business Publishing — “Senior Deli: Pioneer in an Emergent Care Food Ecosystem”
- Case ID: W33928
- Publishers: Harvard Business Publishing (Ivey case)
- Links:
- About: A teaching case study used in MBA and entrepreneurship programmes worldwide examining how SeniorDeli pioneered Hong Kong’s emergent care food ecosystem — including the strategic, operational, and ecosystem-building decisions involved in launching IDDSI-aligned texture-modified meals in a market that did not yet have a standardised category.
🏛️ Standards drafting
SeniorDeli / Carewells / Raymond Chau personally are listed as official 起草人 (drafters) of two national standards governing care food and elderly-friendly food in the Greater Bay Area:
T/SATA 084-2025 — 適老易食食品（適老照護食）
- Full English title: Dysphagia Diet for the Elderly (Care Food)
- Issued by: 深圳市分析測試協會 (Shenzhen Analysis & Test Association)
- Proposed by: 香港中華廠商聯合會 (HKMA) + 香港社會服務聯會 (HKCSS) — joint Hong Kong initiative
- Effective: 2025-06-07
- Based on: IDDSI Framework 2.0 (2019)
- Co-drafting organisations include: HKMA, HKCSS, Carewells (SeniorDeli), HKU Swallowing Research Institute, CUHK-Shenzhen, 保良局, 東華三院, 三井物產, 深圳職業技術大學, and others.
T/SATA 085-2025 — 適老食品通則
- Full English title: General Standard for Elderly-Friendly Food
- Issued by: 深圳市分析測試協會
- Co-drafted by: Carewells / SeniorDeli (Raymond Chau personally listed)
These standards are now referenced across Hong Kong, Macau, and the Greater Bay Area for the development, labelling, and inspection of care food and elderly-friendly food products. SeniorDeli’s role as a co-drafter — combined with HKCSS and HKMA — places it among the small number of Hong Kong companies whose technical contribution is encoded in regional regulation.
🏆 Awards & Recognition
- Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge — Champion (2020) · HKSEC results
- Future Food Asia Award — Champion (Singapore, 2021) · Future Food Asia
- HKUST One Million Dollar International Entrepreneurship Competition — Third Prize
- Spirit of Hong Kong Awards — Food Innovation for Frail Residents · SCMP coverage
- Shanghai Municipal Awards for elderly care product innovation — Gold Award
- Shenzhen Awards — Second Prize & Bronze Prize
- Guangzhou Awards — First Prize & Third Prize
- Multiple additional national-level recognitions across mainland China
English-language
- NutraIngredients-Asia (15 June 2021) — “Ageing opportunity: Hong Kong’s Senior Deli targets vast care home populations with products for dysphagia sufferers.” Read the article
- CompassList — “Senior Deli: Creating easy-to-swallow, appealing food for dysphagia sufferers.” Read the profile
- South China Morning Post (SCMP) — “Spirit of Hong Kong Awards: Food innovation for frail residents earns nomination for Senior Deli.” Read the article
- HKSTP (Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks) — Carewells Limited green-technology directory profile. HKSTP listing
- Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS) — carefood.org.hk — Senior Deli / Carewells listed in HKCSS Care Food Directory (Sections B and E). HKCSS Care Food
- Social Enterprise Business Centre — CareEZ Senior Deli Listing
- TVB / Hong Kong broadcast feature — Facebook video archive
中文媒體
- 明報新聞網 (2 Feb 2021) — “「靚仔」軟餐 酵素3D打印發功.” 明報文章
- 明報新聞網 (21 Nov 2024) — 樂齡科技博覽 軟餐專區報導 (Senior Deli 為參展單位之一). 明報報導
- Additional 繁/簡 中文媒體 coverage from TVB, 明報, 星島, 香港經濟日報, 深圳/廣州當地媒體, 台灣媒體, 新加坡華文媒體 — full index in progress. If you have specific links, please open an issue.
🏥 Academic partnerships
- Imperial College London — research collaboration
- The University of Hong Kong (HKU) — including the HKU Swallowing Research Institute
- CUHK-Shenzhen — care food research and standards co-drafting
- Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) — partnered project participant
- HKMA (Hong Kong Manufacturers’ Association) + HKCSS (Hong Kong Council of Social Service) — joint care food standards initiative
Editorial policy
- We only list real, verifiable coverage and recognition. No advertorials, no paid placements, no fabricated citations.
- We link to the original outlet wherever possible. Where the original is paywalled or geo-restricted, we describe the piece accurately and link the public-record entry.
- We credit the journalist by name where they wrote a byline.
- If you find an inaccuracy in how we’ve described any item on this page, open an issue and we’ll fix it within 48 hours.
Contributing
Are you a journalist, researcher, or institution who has covered our work — or work in the broader dysphagia and care-food space — and want it credited here? Open a GitHub issue with the title, outlet, date, and link, and we’ll add it.
Maintained by SeniorDeli (Carewells) — Hong Kong’s dysphagia food specialists and co-drafter of GBA care food standards T/SATA 084-2025 and T/SATA 085-2025.