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Assessing Integrated Care Mechanisms in Taiwan’s Long-Term Care System: A Study of Care Management Service Providers (opens in a new tab)
Chen W-C, Wu S-C, Chang S-C, Chung K-P, Tu Y-K, Chen Y-M
DOI ↗National Taiwan University · Public Health
NTU Aging Lab
Measure Aging.
Understand Needs.
Improve Care.
We study how people age, what care they need, and how evidence, services, and policy can support healthier aging and better care.
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01 / WHO WE ARE
Better aging begins with better understanding.
NTU Aging Lab is an interdisciplinary research group at National Taiwan University. We study healthy aging, long-term care, health services, caregiving, and policy. By connecting population and longitudinal data with health services research and real-world evidence, we seek to understand aging, identify care needs, evaluate services, and improve care systems.
About the lab02 / RESEARCH
What we study
From individual health and function to family needs, care services, and policy systems.
01Established
Healthy Aging & Functional Ability
Understanding aging trajectories through health, function, and participation.
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02Established
Long-Term Care & Health Services
Examining how services are accessed, delivered, and evaluated.
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03Active
Integrated & Person-Centered Care
Connecting care around a person’s changing needs.
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04Active
Needs, Families & Caregiving
Making unmet needs and caregiving experiences visible.
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05Emerging
Data, AI & Precision Care
An emerging direction using interpretable data methods for aging and care.
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06Emerging
Policy, Systems & Global Evidence
Connecting Taiwan’s evidence to questions shared by aging societies.
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03 / OUR APPROACH
Measure → Understand → Improve
A research pathway from evidence to real care.
01 / MEASURE
Measure Aging
Observe health, function, social context, and change over time.
Population · Function · Health · Longitudinal data
02 / UNDERSTAND
Understand Needs
Make unmet needs and the links among families, communities, and services visible.
Needs · Families · Services · Communities
03 / IMPROVE
Improve Care
Evaluate how integrated care, reablement, and policy respond to real lives.
Care · Outcomes · Equity · Policy
04 / FEATURED RESEARCH
All research areas Questions in focus
HEALTHY AGING / 01
Aging is a trajectory
Using longitudinal evidence to understand changes in function and daily life.
INTEGRATED CARE / 02Care should follow the person
Studying community services and integrated care around changing needs.
DATA & AI / 03Data in service of better care
Exploring interpretable methods for the future of precision care.
05 / RESEARCH JOURNEY
Grounded in the past. Looking ahead.
A clear path from established work to active questions and future directions.
ESTABLISHED
Foundations
Healthy aging, community care, functional health
ACTIVE
Integration
Long-term care, unmet needs, integrated care
EMERGING
Intelligence
Longitudinal data, explainable AI, precision care
VISION
Global impact
Cross-national comparison, global evidence, better systems
PROFESSOR YA-MEI CHEN06 / OUR PEOPLE
Research starts with people.
Led by Professor Ya-Mei Chen, NTU Aging Lab brings a public health and health services perspective to shared questions about aging and care.
Ya-Mei ChenProfessor · Principal Investigator
Meet the principal investigator 07 / GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
From Taiwan to the World.
Taiwan’s longitudinal, health, and long-term care evidence offers a foundation for understanding aging. From here, we aim to connect cross-national comparison, interpretable data methods, and care research to questions shared by aging societies.
Cross-national data work and tools are future research directions, not current public platforms.TAIWANASIAWORLDDATA
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08 / SELECTED WORK
Browse publications Evidence & perspectives
Selected publications
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The Growing Burden of Fall-Related Injuries among Older Adults: A Seven-Year Study from a Tertiary Medical Center in Taiwan (opens in a new tab)
Tsai Y-C, Chen S-Y, Chen Y-M, Huang E P-C, Lu F-P
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Relationships between reablement-embedded home- and community-based service use patterns and functional improvement among older adults in Taiwan (opens in a new tab)
Yu H-W, Wu S-C, Chen H-H, Yeh Y-P, Chen Y-M
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Connect with us The next question starts with a conversation.
We welcome conversations with students and collaborators interested in healthy aging, long-term care, and policy.