Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing

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• Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing
• UNIVERSITAS INDONESIA

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AREA OF RESEARCH ON AGEING

• Medical Gerontology such as health
  ,medicine,geriatrics, dental health , nursing,
  nutrition, traditional medicine, and psychology.
  
• Social Gerontology such as demography, social
  participation, communication, social
  rehabilitation, and social inclusion, financial
  security, intergenerational transfer/solidarity,
  and social environment
• Techno- gerontology such as buildings, housing,
  transpotation, communication and information
  technology, physical facilities and environment
  , design and argonomics

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INTERDICIPLINARY AGEING ISSUES

• QUALITY OF LIFE
• AGE FRIENDLY COMMUNITY
• AGE FRIENDLY CITY
• AGE FRIENDLY HEALTH SERVICES
• INFORMATION SYSTEM
• AGEING AND DEVELOPMENT
• HEALTH AND WELLBEING
• AGEING AND BIOINFORMATICS
• ETC

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• THE TOPIC OF THE GRANT PROJECT
• THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUALITY OF LIFE TOOL FOR
  INDONESIAN ELDERLY TO ENCHANCE HEALTH AND
  WELL-BEING
• THE STUDIES WILL CONSIST OF SOME STUDIES

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AIM

• To develop a tool for Elderly quality of life
• based on
• SOCIO ECONOMIC ,
• HEALTH STATUS
• HEALTH BEHAVIOUR ,
• ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS,
• HEALTH SERVICES,
• INFORMATION SYSTEM,
• BIOINFORMATICS ( including genomic) .
• To improve health and well- being of the
• elderly using the tool of quality of life

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Attachment 1

• Integrated Research on Quality of Life of the
  Elderly
• Tri Budi W. Rahardjo, Bambang Wispriono,
  Benyamin, Indang Trihandini,
• Eef Hogervorst

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Objecticves

• First, to investigate cumulative effects and
  off-setting of health related behaviours
• Second, to investigate the association between
  these health related behaviours and cognitive
  function and health by household and community
  socioeconomic resources
• Third, to assess the role of environmental
  factors in quality of life of the elderly
• Fourth, to develop a tool of quality of life for
  the elderly based on behaviour , socio - economic
  , and environmental factors

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Attachment 2Ageing and OsteoporosisLinda
Kusdhany , Elza Ibrahim, Chris Talbot
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OBJECTIVES

• General objectives
• This work aimed to clarify the significance of
  gene polymorphisms with respect to the observed
  bone density and quantities potentially related
  to bone turnover in postmenopausal Indonesian
  women.
• to establish a system to investigate prognostic
  and predictive markers of osteoporosis in
  Indonesia
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• to improve the quality of prognosis of
  osteoporosis at different stages of severity by
  analysis the pattern of multiple genetic
  polymorphisms related to bone turn over, combined
  with other risk factors and
• to investigate the potential for biphosphonates
  therapy of osteoporosis, with and without
  combined HRT, ( using cell lines??).
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Attachment 3

• INDRI ET AL

STUDY OF IMPACT THE INCREASING OF IN VEHICLE
INFORMATION SYSTEM TO THE ELDERLY DRIVERS TASK
WORKLOAD Keyword elderly visual capacity,
driver distraction, in vehicle information
system, eye movement, eye blinking.
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Center for Health Research UIAgeing in
Indonesia 1998-2007

• Collaborator of Wellcome Trust Fellowship grant
• awarded to Dr. Philip Kreager.
• 1. Demographic, Socio and Economic ResearchPhD
  degree at the University of Oxford
• Health Research
• Support from young generation
• Perceptions and Interpretations of Health and
  Illness Master Degree at University of Melbourne
• Childlesness

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Center for Health Research UIAgeing and Dementia

• Relationship of Salivary Phytoestrogens to age
  Related Cognitive Decline and Possible Dementia
  in Indonesia (Jakarta,Sumedang dan Yogyakarta),
  2006-2007
• A short, cheap and cross culturally applicable
  screening tool to assess dementia 2009 2011
• Collaboration Loughborough University
  andUniversity of Indonesia
• 6 PhD students and 2 master /specialist students
  involved in relation to Public Health,
  Nutrition, Psychology,Neurology, Psychiatry and
  Dentistry

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High tofu is associated with worse memory in the
old

• For more information please contact
• e.hogervorst_at_lboro.ac.uk (published as
  Hogervorst (2008) in Dementia online journal)

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Research done in some faculties

• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Dentistry
• Faculty of Public Health
• Faculty of Nursing
• Faculty of Economics
• Faculty of Psychology
• Faculty of Engineering

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Research topics on Older persons and development

• Reducing poverty trhough
• Ageing and demographic dividend
• Multi-pillar pension schemes to ensure
  sustainable and adequate income security
  measures.
• Social security
• Improve well-being and participation in society
  and expand access to micro-credit schemes.

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Topics on Older Persons and development/cont

• Increase awareness-raising among younger
  generations about life-long preparation
• Life-long learning and access to information on
  the requirements of old age and retirement for
  older persons.
• Employment for and volunteering to reduce old age
  dependency.
• Intergenerational solidarity

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Topics on Older Persons and development/cont

• Voices in policy making programming and resource
  allocation.
• Feminization of ageing, especially of the oldest
  old
• Disaster preparedness, mitigation, recovery,
  relief and rehabilitation plans

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Topics on Advancing health and well-being into
old age

• Promote healthy life-styles and active ageing
• Control over risk factors and harmful
  environments
• Affordable, accessible, good quality age-friendly
  and culturally appropriate health, rehabilitation
• Palliative care
• Community-based long term care to hospital-based
  services and other innovative models of long term
  care.
• The psychosocial needs of older persons and
  address mental health issue and cognitive
  impairment.
• Avoiding or delaying the onset of chronic
  diseases.

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Topics on Advancing health and well-being into
old age/cont

• Health systems
• Multi-pillared approach to financing of health
  care
• Motivation and recognition for informal
  care-givers
• Health and social service professionals and
  workers.

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Topics on Ensuring enabling and supportive
environments

• Older persons associations and NGOs to address
  the needs of and to empower older persons.
• Traditional and cultural facilities and practices
  to provide community-based services to older
  persons.
• Age-friendly physical environments and housing
  provision conducive to promoting ageing in
  place where community level facilities and
  health services are readily accessible.
• Informal care givers, especially women who are
  caught between competing responsibilities for
  raising children, caring for ageing parents, as
  well as engaging in economic activities.

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Topics on Ensuring enabling and supportive
environments/CONT

• Elderly rights at home and in the community
  including about their publicly supported
  entitlements.
• Changing the negative stereotypes about older
  person
• Technological advances such as ICT application to
  enhance connectivity, communications and
  advocacy.
• Transportation systems and universal designs.
• Design policies and approaches that are
  appropriate to the needs of the future generations

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Ageing Studies Team

• Tri Budi W. Rahardjo
• Yudarini
• Subarkah
• Vita Priantina Dei
• Lindawati Kusdhany
• Wita Aggraini
• Phili Kreager
• Bambang Wispriono
• Indang Trihandini
• Fatmah
• Sudyanto Kamso
• Benyamin Kusumoputro
• Elza Ibrahim
• Chris Talbot
• Eef Hogervorst
• Others

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