演講主題：為高齡者設計心理健康照護 (Designing and scaling up integrated mental health care for older people)
講者：林一星教授（Terry Yat Sang Lum）
主持人：趙曉芳教授（Shiau-Fang Chao）
時間：12:30-14:00
日期：2025年5月5日
地點：台灣大學社科院108室
臺大金九教授講座
每年社會科學院與亞洲比較研究中心邀請國際知名學者擔任「臺大金九教授」，並教授短期課程，「臺大金九教授講座」讓臺大師生能夠與海外的傑出學者進行學術交流。今年我們有幸邀請到於香港大學社會工作與社會行政學系任教的林一星教授（Terry Lum），探討高齡心理健康照護。
本次講題：為高齡者設計心理健康照護（Designing and scaling up integrated mental health care for older people）
約十分之一的高齡者會經歷顯著的憂鬱症狀，影響其心理健康與整體福祉。然而，香港的心理健康照護體系主要依賴專科醫師，而這些專業人員的服務能力有限，導致許多心理健康問題無法獲得充分處理。未經治療的憂鬱症在高齡人口中不僅會提高自殺率，還會影響慢性疾病的管理，進一步增加醫療成本並加重患者的痛苦。
自 2016 年起，香港大學 林一星（Terry Lum）教授帶領香港大學研究團隊專為有憂鬱症狀的高齡者而設計，開發了一項創新開創性的「階梯式心理健康介入計畫」（stepped-care intervention），且證實了相較於傳統方法，該模式更具成效且成本效益更高。
自 2020 年起，該計畫已擴展至全港各區，並透過 18 間非政府組織（NGO）合作夥伴，在 52 個中心提供服務。截至目前，該計畫已接觸超過 10 萬名高齡者，為逾 1 萬人提供階梯式心理健康介入，並成功培訓超過 7,000 名心理健康大使與 1,000 名支持者。
在高齡者降低的自殺率下，該計畫的成功是顯而易見的，尤其是相比於其他年齡近年來族群爬升的自殺率。此次演講中，林教授將介紹這項由慈善機構－大學－社區三方共建一個香港基本心理健康照護之合作方案的設計與推廣，並說明這次經驗如何可能適用於其他快速高齡化的亞洲國家。
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講者介紹
林一星教授任教於香港大學社會工作與社會行政學系， 專長於長期照護、高齡化社會資本，以及長者精神健康。他領導多個研究項目，為政府重新制定長期護理評估工具，推動社區照顧服務券和照顧者津貼計劃。林教授現任世界衛生組織健康老化委員會和長期護理全球網絡成員、柳葉刀長期護理委員會委員。他是《老年與精神健康》期刊主編，對長者議題有深入研究。曾為明尼蘇達大學終身教授，當選美國老年學會院士。目前則在香港政府特首政策組專家組，和團結香港基金研究委員會服務。
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英文版宣傳
Speech: Designing and scaling up integrated mental health care for older people
Speaker: Professor Terry Yat Sang Lum
Host: Professor Shiau-Fang Chao
Time: 12:30-14:00
Date: 5 May, 2025
Venue: Room 108, College of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University
About Kim-Koo NTU Professor Public Talk
Each year, the College of Social Sciences and the Global Asia Research Center invite a globally renowned scholar to serve as the NTU-Kim Koo Professor and teach a mini-course. This annual NTU-Kim Koo Professorship Lecture Series enables students and faculty members to exchange scholarly ideas with distinguished scholars beyond Taiwan. This year, we are more than honored to have Professor Terry Lum from the University of Hong Kong to talk about Mental Health Care for Older People.
Speech introduction
About one in ten older people experience significant depressive symptoms, impacting their mental health and overall well-being. Hong Kong's mental health care system struggles to adequately address these issues due to a reliance on specialists with limited capacity. Untreated depression in older populations contributes to a high suicide rate and hinders the management of chronic diseases, leading to increased healthcare costs and suffering. Since 2016, Professor Terry Lum led a team at HKU to develop a groundbreaking stepped-care intervention for older individuals with depressive symptoms, proving to be more effective and cost-efficient than traditional methods. Since 2020, the project has been scaled up to all districts, including services by 18 NGO partners in 52 centers. It has reached over 100,000 older individuals, provided stepped-care intervention to more than 10,000, and trained more than 7,000 mental health ambassadors and 1,000 peer supporters. The program's success is evident in the decreased suicide rates among older individuals, contrasting with rising rates in other age groups in recent years. In this presentation, Professor Lum will summarize the design and the scaling up of this charity-university-community collaboration to build a primary mental health care system for Hong Kong and how this experience may be relevant to other rapidly aging Asian countries.
About Terry Yat Sang Lum
Professor Lum, a faculty member in Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong, specializes in long-term care, productive aging, and geriatric mental health. He advises the Hong Kong Government on long-term care policies, including assessment tools, service matching, and community care vouchers. He leads projects on aging, frailty prevention, and mental health and is an invited member of WHO committees on healthy aging. Formerly a tenured professor at the University of Minnesota, he was elected a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and currently serves on social welfare committees as well as the Hong Kong Minimum Wage Commission.
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