CHIEH-HSIU LIU │劉介修

Welcome to my website. I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, School of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), and a practising geriatrician at NCKU Hospital in Taiwan.

My work sits at the intersection of geriatric medicine, health services research, and long-term care policy. I am particularly interested in how health and social care systems can better respond to ageing societies through integrated, person-centred, and community-connected models of care.

At the heart of my research is a concern with three fragile links in care for older adults: patients, families, and communities. I focus on geriatric integrated care and family caregiver support, addressing the care gaps and unmet needs experienced by older people and their families across hospitals, long-term care, and community settings. Grounded in geriatric clinical practice, I develop and evaluate service models centred on the Family Caregiver Clinic, integrating dyadic care, care navigation, and social prescribing. Using co-design, mixed methods, and implementation science, my work aims to build care models that are clinically feasible, empirically grounded, and scalable in practice.

I received a DPhil in Social Policy from the University of Oxford, an MD from Kaohsiung Medical University, and an MSc in Health Policy from National Taiwan University. I completed my residency and specialty training in geriatrics and family medicine at National Taiwan University Hospital.

Alongside my academic and clinical work, I am actively engaged in policy development and international collaboration. In Taiwan, I serve on the Long-Term Care Policy Advisory Board at the National Health Research Institutes and have contributed to national policy strategies for responding to the transition towards a super-aged society, particularly in healthcare policy. I also collaborate with government agencies, healthcare organisations, and civil society partners to strengthen long-term care systems and enhance support for family caregivers.

My current projects include developing and evaluating a Family Caregiver Clinic model in geriatric practice, building hospital-to-community social prescribing networks, supporting inclusive community initiatives in rapidly growing science-park communities, and creating community-oriented geriatrics curricula for medical and interdisciplinary students.