23rd Digitally Inclusive, Healthy Ageing Communities (DIHAC) Study Cross-cultural Exchange Meeting

Digitally Inclusive, Healthy Ageing Communities (DIHAC) is a cross-cultural study primarily based on Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore and Thailand, and further expanded to India. DIHAC is expected to expand to several countries through collaboration and network. We organize bi-monthly cross-cultural meetings in order to make trans-disciplinary learning opportunity for researchers, professionals and graduate students. 

In this 23rd Digitally Inclusive, Healthy Ageing Communities (DIHAC) Study Cross-cultural Exchange Meeting, experts from Singapore and Korea will highlight how digital technology advancement can enhance social security and health security of older persons. We will explore the social model of care on how Singapore is supporting older adults to age in place by digitally enhanced assisted living. Presentation from Republic of Korea (ROK) will share the latest updates on CLOVA Care Call, Korea’s largest call reassurance service mediated by AI (artificial intelligence).

Chairperson of the 23rd DIHAC meeting is Professor Moon Choi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy (STP), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Professor Choi has more than a decade of experience in gerontology and is one of the leading researchers in Korea, and a consultant to the United Nations ESCAP.

It is a great pleasure to announce the upcoming 23rd DIHAC meeting which will exchange evidence, initiatives and experiences from Singapore and South Korea cross-culturally. Participants are multi-disciplinary researchers, global health researchers, epidemiologists, sociologists, economists, medical doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, NGOs, NPOs, and PhD students from Japan, ROK, Singapore, Thailand, Kenya, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, South Africa, Ukraine, the Netherlands, U.S.A and the UK. We want to share this learning opportunity with our friends, colleagues, experts, scholars and researchers around the world.

Date and Time:

1st July 2024

18:00 to 19:20 JST (Tokyo, Seoul)

17:00 to 18:20 Singapore

16:00 to 17:20 Bangkok 

in Zoom, by invitation or by registration

Meeting Access to register

(Please register by 30th June 2024 if you are interested! limited seats)

Program

Socializing (5 minutes) PI Associate Professor Myo Nyein Aung, Juntendo University, Department of Global Health Research, DIHAC study team and international participants

(5-10 min)

Presentation 1: Singapore

Speaker: Karen Wee Siew Lin, Executive Director at Lions Befrienders Service Association, Singapore

Title – Digitally enhanced assisted living for older adults in Singapore

(20 minutes) 

Discussion 10 minutes

Presentation 2: ROK

Speaker: Ok Sang-Houn, Leader at AI SaaS business, NAVER Cloud Corp., ROK

Title – Updates on CLOVA Care Call

(20 minutes)

Discussion and conclusion (15 minutes)

Chairperson: Professor Moon Choi, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Head, Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy (STP), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), ROK

Access to DIHAC 23 Meeting reports in English, Japanese, Thai and Spanish