Ongoing
Ongoing
Advance care planning education
Patients with progressive disease or older adults with frailty and their family members generally have poor awareness about the prognosis of their illness, and often fail to recognise the need to plan for future care. Without sufficient preparation, evidence have shown that conflicts between healthcare providers and families or among family members regarding the appropriate […]
Ongoing
Ongoing
Educating ethnic minority groups on palliative care
The goal of palliative care is to alleviate suffering and improve the quality of life for patients who are nearing the end of their lives. Unfortunately, there is often a lack of information about palliative care, and communication between healthcare providers and patients can be insufficient. To address this issue, this project creates a culturally […]
Ongoing
Ongoing
Motivating youth peacebuilding
The project designs a “Peace Education” program by distributing specially designed materials to school-aged young people so they can develop resilience and cultivate inner peace. It is expected that the youth will experience changes, benefit from new ways of communicating with others, and learn to adopt non-violent resolution practices. This is part of the project […]
Ongoing
Ongoing
Music playgroup curriculum for infants and toddlers
Research has demonstrated the positive effects of music on language ability and its underlying neurocognitive functions. These findings have the potential to guide the development and implementation of high-quality early educational activities to facilitate language and neurocognitive development via music. A music playgroup curriculum has been designed in this project, based on the best available […]
Ongoing
Ongoing
Paediatric massage therapy for children with autism
This project seeks to use Chinese paediatric massage to improve the quality of life for children with autism. Known to enhance the function of the heart, liver, and kidney, this massage technique can help to restore the flow of Qi and improve sensory processing, which may help to alleviate mental health and behavioural issues among […]
Ongoing
Ongoing
Personalized hip protectors to prevent pelvis fracture
Hip fracture is a major health threat to older adults, and can often result in death. Prevention of hip fracture is a health care priority. Protection against falling is often achieved by using polymeric foam or textile hip protectors. However, they are usually bulky and uncomfortable to wear and not breathable, so that most users […]
Ongoing
Ongoing
Preventive healthcare through digital health cloud-based platform
Patients with chronic diseases are often unaware of their condition, and are exposed to a higher risk of major life-threatening complications. This project proposed to combine Automatic Retinal Image Analysis (ARIA), a pioneering non-invasive retinal imaging analysis can be used in tandem with AI and machine learning to screening various diseases such as diabetes and […]
Upcoming
Upcoming
Promotion of social impact-driven projects
A new publication is being prepared to share success stories and showcase the innovative work done by CUHK researchers and partners through the Knowledge Transfer Fund. Details will be announced soon.
Ongoing
Ongoing
Sustainable revitalization of remote village
The project establishes a collaborative model of village revitalization in Mui Tsz Lam, a village in North District, by involving villagers, professionals, volunteers and CUHK students in a common endeavour. We will co-create village vision and planning with villagers and combining reuse of locally-sourced upcycled materials with experimental fabrications at strategic locations. Our project enables […]