4th APRU Research Symposium on Gerontology

“Productive Aging: Creating a Dynamic and Participatory Aging Society in Asia”

October28-29 2011

FudanUniversityAssociation of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU)

28th October (Friday)

Friday, 28thOctober( Rm. 101, East Wing of GuanghuaTower)
8:00-9:00 Registration
Opening session(9:00-9:20)
Chairman: Xizhe Peng (FudanUniversity)
Xiaoyuan Feng, Vice president of FudanUniversity
Christopher Tremewan, Secretary General of Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU)
9:20-9:40 Group photograph
Session 1: Elderly Human Resources Exploitation (1)
Chairman: Yuan Ren (FudanUniversity)
9:40-09:55 Xuejin Zuo(ShanghaiAcademy of Social Science)
The impact of population mobility on age structure and social security among
rural-and-urban regions
09:55-10:20 Bijun Xiong (ChineseAcademy of Social Science)
Aging human resources Exploitation & social economic development
10:20-10:35 Paula Gardner (Bridgepoint Health)
‘Getting Turned On’: Using ICT training to promote active ageing inNew
YorkCity
10:35-10:50 Diane Marie Campañano-Bernardo(University of the Philippines)
Assets and Capacities: Foundation of Active Ageing and Community-Oriented
Disaster Risk Reduction and Response Management Program
10:50-11:05 Keiko KATAGIRI (Nipponkoa Welfare Foundation)
Activating the Third Age for productive activities
11:05-11:20 MARIA CECILIA R. SAN LUIS (University of the PhilippinesBaguio)
An Exploratory study of the Living Arrangements and Social Networks
among Selected Elderly Persons in Baguio City, Philippines
11:20-11:40 Questions and Discussions
Session 2 Elderly Human Resources Exploitation (2)
Chairman: Haiwang Zhou (ShanghaiAcademy of Social Sciences)
13:30-13:45Jingjing Zhang (University of Auckland)
Productive aging and quality of life-grandparentingor volunteering:two
approaches to being productive
13:45-14:00 Sahova Devi Khanal(Geriatric Centre Nepal)
Status of Elders in Nepal : Health and Social Perspective
14:00-14:15 Zhan Hu (FudanUniversity)
A inclusive view of aging society development
14:15-14:30 Ruijun Wu ( East China Normal Universit)
Necessities and path selection: cross-board human resources exploration
14:30-14:45 Jinying Wang (HebeiUniversity)
Full use of low age of old populationand building productive aging society
14:45-15:20 Questions and Discussion
15:20-15:35 Tea Break
Session 3: Elderly Human Resources Exploitation (3)
Chairman: Jinying Wang (HebeiUniversity)
15:35-15:50 Vipan Prachuabmoh(ChulalongkornUniversity)
The Second National Plan for Older Persons in Thailand: Successes and Challenges
15:50-16:05 Maria Ana B. Diaz (University of the PhilippinesBaguio)
Self-Concept in the Aging Years
16:05-16:20 Zhenmei Zhang (Michigan State University)
Co-residence of married children with their aging parents in
contemporaryChina
16:20-16:35 Jian Zhang(Chengdu Electromechanical College)
The construction of aging activity industry
16:35-16:50 Dr Ramakirshnan Ramachandran(Karthikeyan Institute of Management
Sciences)
Information, technology and its impact on aging society
16:50-17:10 Questions and Discussion

29th October (Saturday)

Saturday, 29thOctober( Rm. 101, East Wing of GuanghuaTower)
Session 4: Health and Aging (1)
Chairman: Li Zhang (FudanUniversity)
8:30-8:45 Bingyuan Bao(KyotoUniversity)
One-year Clinical Outcomes in Elderly Patients with Heart Failure
Undergoing Cardiac Rehabilitation in KyotoUniversityHospital
8:45-9:00 Wen Zeng(Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau)
The Development of Mind Over Old-age Depression Programme for Older
Persons with Depression in Macau
9:00-9:15 Sarang kim(Australian National University)
Understanding users of community- based interventions for dementia risk
reduction
9:15-9:30 Danan GU (Duke University, USA) & Yi ZENG (PekingUniversity)
Factors associated healthiness of survival among oldest old in China
using Fuzzy set
9:30-9:45 Yan Zhang(XintuCenter for Community Health Promotion)
A research on the disabled caregivers’ health and living conditions as well as the need investigation in Waitan District, Shanghai, China
9:45-10:15 Questions and Discussion
10:15-10:30 Tea Break
Session 5: Health and Aging (2)
Chairman: Chuanlan Wang(FudanUniversity)
10:30-10:45 Edward James R Gorgon MPhysio(University of the PhilippinesManila)
Falls abatement for productive aging:Insights on therole of the home
environment and chronic conditions
10:45-11:00 Dongmei Chen(FudanUniversity)
Productive aging and influence on health care insurance for the aged
11:00-11:15 Seyed Ziae Tabatabaei (University Putra Malaysia)
Exploring Unmet Elderly Care Needs in Malaysian Residential Homes: An
Ethnographic Study
11:15-11:30 Yu-Chan Lin(NationalTaiwanUniversityCollege of Medicine)
Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation for Elderly Survivors with Stroke: Case Series
11:30- 12:00 Questions and Discussion
Session 6: Productive Aging and Social Policies (1)
Chairman: Xing Wei (FudanUniversity)
13:30-13:45 Maheswar Satpathy(University of New South Wales)
The secret lives of single old gay men in the developing world:finding a link
Between aging, sexuality and productivity
13:45-14:00 Min Cole & Zhen Deng (Quality of Life Group, Beijing Min Hao Cole
Consulting Service Co., Ltd)
From ‘D’ to ‘R’: Challenge andOpportunity
14:00-14:15 Yina ZhangXuhao Sun (FudanUniversity)
Elderly Migration Selectivity in China:An Analysis Based on the 2005
Census Data
14:15-14:30 Xianying Zhang(Shanghai Population and Development Research
Center)
Characteristics of spatial distribution and changing of aged population
14:30-14:45 Chen Zhou (SoutheastUniversity)
To sum up the status quo of agricultural-aged security system in Japan
14:45-15:15 Questions and Discussion
15:15-15:30 Tea Break
Session 7: Productive Aging and Social Policies (2)
Chairman: Youde Guo(FudanUniversity)
15:30-15:45 James Cherng-Tay Hsueh (NationalTaiwanUniversity) &
Yun-Tung Wang (NationalTaiwanUniversity)
Transition and Development of Long-term Care Policy in Taiwan
15:45-16:00 Youyun Qiu(HanzhouNormalUniversity)
Intervention research on difficulties of the left-behind aged
16:00-16:15 Wei Wu (TaianCollege)
Active aging in aged home and intervention social work
16:15-16:30 Yiyan Wan(EastChinaUniversity of Political Science and Law)
Home Care for Older People in Shanghai
16:30-17:00 Questions and Discussion
17:00-17:15 Conference conclusion
Yuan Ren (Institution of Population Research, FudanUniversity)

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