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CADENZA Workshop Series(English Version Only)

Biography of CADENZA Fellows (Mar – Oct 2013)

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Strategic approach for promoting retirement preparation – Innovative use of active interest development, senior mentorship and traditional Chinese health concepts

Dr Ng Siu-man 吳兆文博士
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Administration
The University of Hong Kong

Dr Ng’s key research area is the application of Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese philosophies in mental health work. Current research projects are operationalization of stagnation (a concept from TCM) as a mental health construct, illness coping strategies in irritable bowel syndrome (especially symptoms catastrophizing and social hypervigilance), and chronic fatigue syndrome.

System Approach: Pain management for older persons living in nursing home

Dr Mimi Tse 謝敏儀博士
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dr Tse teaches nurses in undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is the programme leader for Master of Science in Nursing. Her research interests include health promotion and interventional strategies to enhance quality of living and quality of life for older persons, healthy ageing, elderly safety, long-term care, pain management and E-learning and online learning. 

Narrative therapy: Reconstructing stroke survivors and caregivers’ meaning of and purpose in life

Dr Esther Chow 周愛華博士
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Social Studies
City University of Hong Kong

Dr Chow is the Associate Program Leader for Bachelor of Social Sciences in Social Work. She has extensive research experiences on the effectiveness of various practice-intervention models. After obtaining a graduate diploma in Narrative therapy from Dulwich Centre, Australia, her research interests extended to practice of narrative therapy, self-help and mutual-aid, life wisdom, social support and coping, resilience and spirituality.

Sustaining the effect of “Prompted Voiding” programs to manage urinary incontinence in nursing home residents: A Workshop for Managers

Dr Claudia Lai 賴錦玉博士
Professor, School of Nursing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dr Lai focuses her research program on various aspects of long-term care and, in particular, on the care of people suffering from dementia.  She has won a number of awards for her work on dementia care. She is an honorary nursing advisor to many voluntary service agencies in Hong Kong.

Digitalize Pre-discharge Planning for Older Patients and their Family Members using an e-Learning Information Package (eLIP).

Dr Lisa P.L. Low 羅佩麗博士
Professional Consultant, Nethersole School of Nursing
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr Low’s research interests resolve around gerontology, emphasizing on the organization of care and practices, decision-making in residential care homes, discharge planning for older patients and family members; and, recently, family decision-making of older people with mild-moderate dementia using mainly qualitative approaches. Her deep passion to integrate qualitative research into her work with older people include the use of action research (combined with ethnography) to constructivist grounded theory to promote the quality of life of older residents and staff in an aged care setting. 

Relieving Insomnia Among Older People: the Effects of Eognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Dr Doris Yu 余秀鳳博士
Associate Professor, Nethersole School of Nursing
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr Yu is the Deputy Programme Director of the CADENZA Training Programme. Her major research interest is to promote quality of life and healthy ageing in older people with particular focus on insomnia, oral health, nutrition, mental wellness and symptom management. She also investigates effective disease management model and patient empowerment program for chronic illnesses.

Instrumental Reminiscence Intervention (IRI) for alleviating depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults

Dr Vivian Lou 樓瑋群博士
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Administration
The University of Hong Kong

Dr Lou is also the Associate Director of Sau Po Centre on Ageing, and an Honorary
Clinical Associate of the Centre on Behavioral Health in the University of Hong Kong. She teaches social gerontology, clinical gerontology, and human development. Her research interests focus on long-term care, family caregiving, social adaptation and mental health of older adults. She also has keen interest in developing evidence-based practice for Chinese older adults.

Electrical Stimulation and Rehabilitation Following Stroke

Dr Shamay Ng 伍尚美博士
Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dr Ng is a registered physiotherapist. She is also the Visiting Professor at the Health and Nursing Department, The Wuhan Polytechnic University in China. Dr Ng’s research interest is on neurorehabilitation, particularly on stroke rehabilitation.  Her research findings have been published in international journals such as Stroke, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine etc. She received research grants in conducting randomized controlled trials on efficacy of home-based and community-based stroke rehabilitation programmes and in developing innovative teaching methodology in physiotherapy education.

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