Collaboration of Digitally Inclusive Healthy Ageing Communities (DIHAC) study in Thailand 2023 November

Juntendo University, Department of Global Health Research, Associate Professor Myo Nyein Aung, Principal Investigator of DIHAC study visited Thailand on the 4th and 5th weeks of November 2023. He had a chance to visit communities to observe community-based social innovations. He was received by important stakeholders, academics, city authorities in Chiang Mai and Lampang in northern Thailand. He had meeting at ministries leading the healthy ageing and long-term care for the older persons in Thailand, in Bangkok. Furthermore, he had a meeting with the regional director of International Technology Union (ITU) for further collaboration.

Chaing Mai 

Chaing Mai University, Thailand 

Figure1: Department of Family Medicine and Geriatric Care team at Chiang Mai University Faculty of Medicine

Chiang Mai Rajabhat University, Thailand

Figure2: President of Chaing Mai Rajabhat University (Middle) and DIHAC investigator Dr Saiyud Moolphate (left)

Figure 3: City vice Mayor and community Stake holders Kee-Lek city, Chiang Mai

Lampang

Boromarajonani College of Nursing, Nakhon Lampang (BCNLP)

Figure 4: Boromarajonani Collage of Nursing, Lampang Team and Dr Myo Nyein Aung at community in the Ton Tong village

Figure 5: Boromarajonani Collage of Nursing, Lampang Team and Dr Myo Nyein Aung at community in the Mae Kong village

Bangkok

International Technology Union 

Figure 6: Collaboration meeting with Atsuko Okuda, Regional Director of International Technology Union (ITU), Asia Pacific region for expanding DIHAC study and assisting ITU

College of Public Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University

Figure 7: College of Public Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University: Dean Professor Chitlada Areesantichai and team

Ministry of Public Health

Department of Health Service Support

Figure 9: Thailand Ministry of Public Health Consultation meeting with private nursing home cooperates

Figure 8: Thailand Ministry of Public Health Explanation meeting for new primary health care orientation in Thailand

Ministry of Social Development and Human Security

Department for Older persons

Figure 10: Thailand Ministry of Social Development and Human Security team and Dr Myo Nyein Aung, visiting  Yanawa School of Older Persons Bangkok