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.

連結醫療、長照、家庭與社區的高齡整合照護研究：一個介面高齡醫學的取徑

從臨床看見人，從政策理解結構，從設計做出路徑。

我的研究從高齡醫學的臨床現場出發，關注高齡者與家庭照顧者在醫療、長照、家庭與社區之間移動時，所經驗到的照護斷裂、制度縫隙與支持需求。我將此研究取徑稱為「介面高齡醫學」：不只關心疾病治療，也關心高齡者如何在不同照護場域之間被銜接、被支持，或被制度遺落。

結合高齡醫學、社會政策、健康服務研究與共創設計，我聚焦於三個方向：醫療—長照介面的照護轉銜、以高齡者與家庭照顧者為核心的雙元照護，以及連結醫療與社區資源的社會處方。透過質量混合方法、政策分析、工具發展與介入評估，我希望發展出更具整合性與可行性的高齡照護模式，支持高齡者、家庭照顧者與專業人員。