Michelle Lafrance’s research interests have always been rooted in the everyday realities of women’s lives as she has explored their challenges around depression and distress, stigma around mental illness, leisure and self-care (or lack thereof), and experiences of...
Chen-Fen Chen
Collaborators
Elaine Perunovic
Elaine Perunovic’s research interests are generally within the area of social and cultural psychology, including self-concept and identity, goal motivation, subjective well-being, contextualized personality, interpersonal relationships, bilingualism and...
Lisa Anne Ross
Lisa Anne Ross is a theatre artist, educator, director and community arts practitioner, who in addition to performing and directing for numerous Canadian Theatre Companies such as Neptune Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times and Theatre New Brunswick, has also created and...
About
Dr. Chen is a professor in the Department of Long-Term Care at the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences in Taipei, Taiwan. Her research focusses on elderly welfare policy and service, long-term care policy and migrant care workers. Dr. Chen’s PhD dissertation, completed in 2006, was titled: The Long-Term Care Policy in Taiwan: From the perspectives of elderly’s living arrangement and unmet needs. In addition to her University position, Dr. Chen has served as President of the Social Welfare Association of Taiwan, President of the Taiwan Association of Family Caregivers, and Chief Executive, Taiwan Association of Social Work.
Dr. Chen has been collaborating with the P-SEC research group since 2016, when she came to UNB and held a Harrison-McCain Foundation Visiting Professorship Award. She returned to Fredericton in the summer of 2018 to continue her work with the P-SEC lab. The following year she arranged for Drs. Gouliquer and Poulin to visit Taiwan and present findings from several of their studies at a number of academic events, including a keynote address at the International Conference of Social Welfare Association of Taiwan. Dr. Chen’s collaboration with the P-SEC research group has yielded many opportunities, cross-cultural insights, and scholarly presentations. Our collaborations focus on cultural-comparisons of the experience of the 90+ years old, and their caregivers, with a particular interest on gender and marginalisation.
Publications & Presentations
Selected recent publications:
Hsu, H.C., Liang, J., Luh, D.L., Chen, C.F., & Wang, Y.W. (2019). Social determinants and disparities in active aging among older Taiwanese. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(3005), 1-18 . doi:10.3390/ijerph16163005
Hsu, H.C., & Chen, C.F. (2019). LTC 2.0: The 2017 reform of home- and community-based care in Taiwan. Health Policy, 123(10), 912-916. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.08.004
Hsu, H.C., Liang, J., Luh, D.L., Chen, C.F., & Lin, L.J. (2019). Constructing Taiwan’s Active Aging Index and applications for international comparison. Social Indicators Research, 146, 727–756. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-019-02128-6
Wang, F.T.W., & Chen, C.F. (2019). Transformation of the Taiwanese Association of Family Caregivers in the long term care debate for carers in Taiwan. International Journal of Care and Caring, 1(1), 121-126. https://doi.org/10.1332/239788217X14866308260586
Chen, C.F. (2016). Insiders and outsiders: Policy and care workers in Taiwan’s long-term care system. Ageing & Society, 36(10), 2090-2116. doi:10.1017/S0144686X15001245
Liu, Y.C., & Chen, C.F. (2016). The nomad phenomenon in social welfare: Research on the strategies of non-profit organizations in the contracting of community care stations in Taipei City. NTU Social Work Review, 33, 43-88 (in Chinese).
Chen, C.F., & Kuan., Y.Y. (2015). Within sight but beyond reach: Taipei City’s subsidized institutional care for low-income elderly. NTU Social Work Review. 32, 33-78 (in Chinese).
Selected recent conference presentations:
Chen, C.F. (2019, October 23-27). Policies and transformation of Taiwan’s longtTerm care system [Conference presentation]. Eleventh IAGG International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics Asia/Oceania Regional Congress, Taipei, Taiwain.
Chen, C.F. (2019, November 14-18). LTC 2.0: Home- and community-based care policy reform in Taiwan [Conference presentation]. The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Seventieth Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, MA, United States.
Tsung-his, F., & Chen, C.F. (2018, October 25-26). The Influence of transnational policy learning and domestic politics on long-term care development in Taiwan [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Global Dynamics of Social Policy, Breme, Germany.
Chen, C., Gouliquer, L., & Poulin, C. (2018, August 8-10). Cohort, gender, and ethnic differences among the oldest-old adults in Taiwan [Conference presentation]. IFA Fourteenth Global Conference on Ageing. Toronto, ON, Canada.
Gouliquer, L., Young, P., Poulin, C., Chen, C.F., & Moore, A. (2018, March 19-22). The poesy of aging: Listening to our elders [Conference presentation]. Laurentian Research Week, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada.
Chen, C.F., Poulin, C., & Gouliquer, L. (2016, October 6-7). Prescriptions in the Taiwan health care system: How chronic disease prescription medicine quantity-duration complicates the lives of seniors over age 90 [Conference presentation]. Aging and Society: An Interdisciplinary Conference. Norrköping, Sweden.
Poulin, C., Chen, C.F., & Gouliquer, L. (2016, October 6-7). Implicit and explicit gender division in long term care: A Comparison between Taiwan and Canada [Conference presentation]. Aging and Society: An Interdisciplinary Conference. Norrköping, Sweden.
Gouliquer, L., Poulin, C., & Chen, C.F. (2016, October 6-7). Disrupting ageism, stereotypes, and independence: Listening to the voices of older adults through I-poems [Conference presentation]. Aging and Society: An Interdisciplinary Conference. Norrköping, Sweden.
Chen, C.F. (2015, October 19-22). Organizational attribution of home care service institutions in Taipei and New Taipei municipalities – Focusing on the Issues of Service Area and Management [Conference presentation]. The IAGG Asia/-Oceania Conference. Chiangman. Thailand.
Chen, C.F. (2015, September 3-6). Management or exploitation? The survival strategy of employers of family care workers [Conference presentation]. Sixth International Carers Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Current Team
Michelle N Lafrance
Michelle Lafrance’s research interests have always been rooted in the everyday realities of women’s lives as she has explored their challenges around depression and distress, stigma around mental illness, leisure and self-care (or lack thereof), and experiences of...
Elaine Perunovic
Elaine Perunovic’s research interests are generally within the area of social and cultural psychology, including self-concept and identity, goal motivation, subjective well-being, contextualized personality, interpersonal relationships, bilingualism and...
Lisa Anne Ross
Lisa Anne Ross is a theatre artist, educator, director and community arts practitioner, who in addition to performing and directing for numerous Canadian Theatre Companies such as Neptune Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times and Theatre New Brunswick, has also created and...