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About the department

Department of Preventive Gerontology

The Department of Preventive Gerontology scientifically investigates whether lifestyles such as exercise, diets, intellectual activities, and social activities are effective in preventing dementia and frailty. We also promote digital healthcare for the promotion of the health of older adults by utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) and IoT devices.

Research Focus

  1. We advance a large-scale cohort study (National Center for Geriatric and Gerontology-Study of Geriatric Syndromes: NCGG-SGS) and analyze the data to understand the risk of geriatric syndromes that occur with aging and to identify effective ways to treat them. 
  2. We conduct randomized controlled trials to verify the effects of prevention and improvement methods for diseases and geriatric syndromes accompanied with aging.

Members

Professor Hiroyuki Shimada
Associate professor

Sangyoon Lee

Takehiko Doi

Research fellow

Kota Tsutsumimoto

Osamu Katayama

Kenji Harada

Kouki Tomida

Chiharu Nishijima

Kazuya Fujii

Ryo Yamaguchi

Yuka Misu

Takahiro Shimoda

Chika Nakajima

Ayuka Kawakami

Fumio Sakimoto

Soichiro Matsuda

Daiki Yamagiwa

Daisuke Kakita

Shinnosuke Nosaka

Shoma Akaida

Research assistant

Kana Ota

Junko Furuta

Ayuko Murakami

Akiko Sakaida

Ikuko Tamura

Mie Fujiwara

Naoka Seki

Kaori Suzuki

Kanae Okuda

Kishiko Yamamoto

Megumi Nada

Sayaka Mizoe

Akiko Kasagi

Ai Goto

Hiroko Takahashi

Tomomi Tanaka

Miyuki Kamio

Aya Abo

Visiting researcher

Masanori Morikawa(JSPS research fellowship for young scientists)

Yasushi uchiyama

Rei Ono

Takeshi Kohama

Hyuntae Park

Hyuma Makizako

Yuya Anan

Hideaki Ishii

Hikaru Ihira

Masakazu Imaoka

Kazuki Uemura

Takeshi Ohnuma

Yuto Kiuchi

Satoshi Kurita

Ryuichi Sawa

Yohei Shinkai

Ippei Chiba

Naoki Tomiyama

Takuma Nakaguchi

Sho Nakakubo

Kazuhei Nishimoto

Hiroyuki Hashidate

Kazuhiro Harada

Seongryu Bae

Ryo Hotta

Keitaro Makino

Kenshi Morimoto

Daisuke Yoshida

Tatsuki Yoshimatsu

Research student

Etsuko Hyakutake

Itsuko Ishida

Data Sharing Project Team

Mission

Due to recent ICT innovations, methods for data collection, publications, data sharing, and so on are undergoing major changes. By promoting data sharing, we aim to collect, accumulate, and analyze big data and provide evidence that contributes to extending the healthy life expectancy of older adults.

Research Focus

We have conducted a large-scale survey to examine the relationship between lifestyle, living environment, and health problems in older Japanese people.
By providing and sharing the data obtained from the large-scale survey, we aim to form the basis for cross-disease cohort research and to build evidence that contributes to extending healthy life expectancy.