CHIEH-HSIU LIU │劉介修

My work brings together clinical geriatrics, health services research, and social policy to strengthen how care is designed and delivered in ageing societies. Across my projects, I focus on integrated, person-centred models that connect hospitals with community support, improve navigation across fragmented services, and recognise the everyday realities of family caregiving. A consistent theme is translating rigorous research and co-design into practical systems that are scalable, culturally grounded, and meaningful for older people and those who care for them.

Developing and Evaluating a Family Caregiver Clinic

This project develops and evaluates a dyadic model of integrated care for older adults and their family caregivers—treating the patient–caregiver pair as the unit of care. Building on routine geriatric practice, the model embeds structured identification of caregiver needs and provides coordinated support across medical and social care. Key components include care transitions and navigation, social prescribing and community linkage, assessment of older adults’ intrinsic capacity, and tailored support for caregivers’ physical and mental wellbeing. Through mixed-methods evaluation and implementation-focused research, this programme aims to demonstrate how caregiver-inclusive care can improve outcomes, reduce avoidable strain on families, and enhance continuity from outpatient clinics to the community.

Social Design and Inclusive Communities

This project is a community-based collaboration centred on the Southern Taiwan Science Park and its surrounding neighbourhoods, where newly arrived families and long-term residents are reshaping the local social fabric. The initiative explores how communities can co-create inclusive, intergenerational support systems—using social prescribing as a platform for connection, participation, and health promotion across diverse groups. A major strand of the work is methodological: advancing how service design and social design approaches can be applied to integrated elder care and community health, from co-design workshops and prototyping to implementation in real-world settings. The project also extends into education, translating these approaches into teaching and training in integrated care, enabling learners to engage with communities, design with stakeholders, and develop practical solutions for an ageing society.