ELDERS focus on identifying the psychosocial and behavioral determinants of healthy aging, developing community-based health management models for the elderly, and conducting comparative studies on global healthy aging initiatives and management frameworks.

Develop culturally adapted dementia risk indicators via digital technology-based phenotyping (e.g. wearable sensors, voice analytics) and longitudinal data analysis of spatiotemporal lifestyle patterns across global ageing cohorts, enabling precision identification of high-risk elderly in community settings.
Elucidate gender-specific social support mechanisms using dyadic/social network analysis, and design targeted interventions through behavioral economic nudges to enhance cognitive resilience via community networks.
Establish a “physician-patient-family” triadic model via implementation science frameworks, with cost-effectiveness analysis via Markov modeling to quantify long-term benefits of integrated chronic disease-cognitive care in community settings.

中山大学公共卫生研究生院廖婧博士以 “Dementia in China: Current and Future Health and Social Challenges and Policy Responses“ 为主题进行了演讲。 除领域教师外,来自不同研究领域的10名青年研究人员和研究生参加了此次活动,共同探讨了中国痴呆的趋势、危险因素以及有效的干预方法。对于迎来超高龄社会的东亚地区的健康课题,研究人员能够提出怎样的解决方案,希望通过国际合作伙伴关系进行探索。

近期Alzheimer’s & Dementia_杂志上,中山大学公共卫生学院廖婧教授领导的团队发表了一项最新研究成果,发现痴呆症的12个可改变的风险因素(生命早期受教育程度低,中年时期的听力损失、创伤性脑损伤、高血压、酗酒和肥胖,以及老年时期的吸烟、抑郁症、社会孤立、运动不足、空气污染和糖尿病)合计可解释中国约60.3%的痴呆症病例,占比最大的单一因素为生命早期的受教育程度低,为14.0%,中年时期的风险因素影响相对较小,合计为8.8%,老年时期的合计为37.5%。这些数据强调了中国在痴呆症预防方面的巨大潜力。