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Community Home Healthcare and Geriatrics Lab
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A geriatric medicine lab that provides care for older adults and conducts research on them, from the hospital to the home.
AboutAbout the lab
Leading Japan's geriatric medicine, which is drawing attention from around the world.
The Community Home Healthcare and Geriatrics Lab is a comprehensive clinical science lab that deals with older adults across a broad range of fields, from medical care to long-term care.
Established in 1979 as a geriatric medicine department, the lab practices holistic care for older adults, conducts research to advance geriatric medicine, and trains people who will become leaders in community healthcare for older adults.
Research is carried out in outpatient clinics, on inpatient wards, and in home visit care. In the outpatient setting, the lab looks for clues to aging more healthily in data from older patients.
Key terms
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment
- A method of comprehensively evaluating an older person's physical function, cognitive function, psychological state, living environment, and more
- QOL (quality of life)
- A perspective that values the quality of a person's life, not only the extension of life
- Cohort study
- A study that follows a group of people sharing the same conditions over time to investigate factors related to disease and daily life
NewsLab news
Paper by Assistant Professor Yamada accepted by European Geriatric Medicine
Paper by Professor Umegaki accepted by JAMDA
Paper by Professor Umegaki and Assistant Professor Yamada accepted by Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics and Geriatrics & Gerontology International
Paper by Professor Umegaki accepted by European Geriatric Medicine
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research on medical care for older adults in outpatient clinics, on inpatient wards, and in home visit care. In outpatient care, it analyzes data from older patients, and in home visit care, it continues a cohort study of older patients receiving home-based medical care.
*Illustrative imageResearch on Older Outpatients
The lab follows and analyzes data from older outpatients who have given consent, examining the characteristics of people who stay independent for a long time, who are less likely to fall, and whose cognitive function tends to be preserved. A multidisciplinary team that includes nurses and psychologists works to connect the findings to future interventions.
*Illustrative imageGeriatric Research on the Wards
The lab has reported results in both basic and clinical research on topics such as arteriosclerosis, nutrition, dementia, and comprehensive geriatric assessment. Members are not tied to a particular field and can take up the themes that interest them, and they move their work forward through repeated discussion at regular meetings.
*Illustrative imageCohort Study of Home Visit Care
Since 2012, the lab has continued a cohort study of older patients receiving home visit care (the ONEHOME study) together with home visit physicians around Nagoya. It examines factors related to quality of life (QOL), and has also independently developed a QOL questionnaire for older adults receiving home visit care.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Community Home Healthcare and Geriatrics Lab include faculty, staff physicians, residents in specialty training, PhD students, and visiting researchers.As of 2026
- ProfessorHiroyuki Umegaki
- Hospital Associate ProfessorHitoshi Komiya
- LecturerHiroshi Yoshino
- Hospital LecturerChisato Fujisawa
- LecturerKazuhisa Watanabe
- Hospital Assistant ProfessorKiyoyasu Kanaoka
- Assistant ProfessorYosuke Yamada
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Visit to Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care ( )” Rocco Rossi / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Research on Older Outpatients: “Elderly man and woman with canes walking down the street, Leof. Megalocharis, Tinos, Greece julesvernex2” Jules Verne Times Two / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Geriatric Research on the Wards: “Keynsham Hospital, Claude Harrison Ward” Rwendland / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Cohort Study of Home Visit Care: “New York National Guard nursing home” The National Guard / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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